{"id":31035,"date":"2023-06-27T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/new-emails-reveal-microsoft-wanted-to-buy-sega-bungie\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T05:00:06","slug":"new-emails-reveal-microsoft-wanted-to-buy-sega-bungie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/new-emails-reveal-microsoft-wanted-to-buy-sega-bungie\/","title":{"rendered":"New Emails Reveal Microsoft Wanted To Buy Sega, Bungie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/starfield-exclusive-xbox-ps5-delay-release-date-1850576836\">is currently in court<\/a> trying to move forward with its massive deal to acquire Activision Blizzard. But new emails, which surfaced during the ongoing court hearing, reveal that Xbox was discussing plans to buy up other video game studios and publishers, including Sega, Bungie, Niantic, IO Interactive, and\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/xbox-microsoft-deal-merger-sega-bungie-emails-niantic-1850579087\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; kotaku.com<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is currently in court trying to move forward with its massive deal to acquire Activision Blizzard. But new emails, which surfaced during the ongoing court hearing, reveal that Xbox was discussing plans to buy up other video game studios and publishers, including Sega, Bungie, Niantic, IO Interactive, and\u2026 Read more&#8230; Source &#8211; kotaku.com All<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31036,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,36,10],"tags":[2639,230,325,18],"class_list":["post-31035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pc","category-ps5","category-xbox","tag-court","tag-currently","tag-microsoft","tag-xbox"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Emails Reveal Microsoft Wanted To Buy Sega, Bungie | Xtreme Servers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"View New Emails Reveal Microsoft Wanted To Buy Sega, Bungie for free, here on XtremeServers. 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