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WoW: TBC Close Beta Internal email leaked on Reddit sent to Blizzard employees about the upcoming closed beta for The Burning Crusade Classic coming later this month Blizzard telling employees to have Friends & Family invites submitted by March 15th Valheim Port to Nintendo Switch?? 5M copies sold in 1 month Port House has expressed interest during an interview Have ported DOOM: Eternal, Wolfenstein and more to Switch already Also looking to port Bloodborne Microsoft Acquires Betheseda The European Commission had to approve Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda first The largest merger in video game industry history $7.5 billion USD Germany Rating Loot Boxes Still needs to be ratified Let’s not forget Germany passed an act in 2008 to restrict games with excessive gore and violence, nicknamed "killerspiele", from sale to players under the age of 18, which resulted in publishers amending games for German release—swapping red blood for black, and sometimes replacing human enemies with robots, as in Carmageddon. (On a related note, Germany's infamous ban on the use of symbols relating to unconstitutional groups in videogames, which prevented swastikas and other Nazi symbols being used, was lifted in 2018.) Links https://www.mmorpg.com/news/the-burning-crusade-classic-closed-beta-testing-could-start-this-month-according-to-a-leaked-internal-email-2000121275 https://www.mmorpg.com/news/switch-port-house-panic-button-expresses-interest-in-porting-survival-hit-valheim-to-the-nintendo-switch-2000121273 https://www.mmorpg.com/news/microsoft-acquisition-of-bethesda-complete-confirms-some-games-will-be-exclusive-to-xbox-and-pc-2000121269 https://www.pcgamer.com/german-parliament-wants-games-with-loot-boxes-rated-18/