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How do *you* feel about the Activision-Microsoft merger?

Ask a Game Dev

Later they bought Atlus. Smaller companies fall on hard times and a larger company offers a rescue. Old leadership grows weary of running the company and someone offers them a big payday. Sega merged with Sammy Corp. in 2004 to form Sega-Sammy.

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How to make your dream game, publish it and not die in the process

Mircosoft Game Dev

I also owned several companies and helped others on the business side so I believe I have a clear enough picture of the whole process (which does not meant it's failure proof, it never is). There are companies that for, say $5, will get one user to play your game. They are companies, not charities.