Microsoft to buy Doom and Fallout game maker Bethesda for $10.4 billion

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Microsoft is buying the company behind popular video games The Elder Scrolls, Doom and Fallout as part of its plan to beef up its Xbox Game Pass subscription service.

Microsoft is buying the company behind popular video games The Elder Scrolls, Doom and Fallout.

Microsoft said the deal will help beef up its Xbox Game Pass subscription service, which it says has more than 15 million subscribers.

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Good. Mabye now they can use that MS $$ to up the game quality and while at it remove their aggresive MTX approach

Bethesda was dying as a game-producing player anyway - no big deal.

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