The processes, whether legal or bureaucratic, that companies like Microsoft have to face on certain occasions become secondary more than an interesting source of information about exactly what these companies prefer to hide. We recently had a clear example of this with the legal confrontation between Apple and Epic Games as a result of the exclusion of the latter’s titles, including Fortnite, from the iOS app store. In these cases, companies are forced to provide information that ends up being published one way or another, which we’re very clear they don’t like at all.

In this sense, all the hurdles Microsoft must face to get regulatory approval for the Activision-Blizzard King acquisition They also provide very juicy information about all parties involved. All the more so because it also tends to encourage many people to collect even more information that, while public, has yet to come to light. A clear example of the latter can be found in Sony’s consideration of its patents on its competitors in the console market.

Of course, companies can use some resources to try to prevent the disclosure of such information or at least limit its volume and hide certain aspects, either with a view to its submission to regulatory and/or judicial authorities, or at the point when said entities begin to publish the information they have received in order to carry out their assessments. And we find something like that in this case.

We have to start with a brief mention, because the truth is that it doesn’t deserve too much attention that a group of people decided to take Microsoft to court over its plans to buy Activision-Blizzard King, and that they asked the judge assigned to this cause to block the operation. As a lawyer, the judge requested the necessary information, assessed it and decided to dismiss the lawsuit, although she granted the plaintiffs a temporary reserve to provide additional information. What’s interesting about it is documentation received and assessed by the municipality.

As we can read in the VGC, a document signed by a company executive Microsoft says they are working on a sequel to the game in a process that could take up to 10 years to develop.. The name of the said title is mentioned in the original document, but for obvious reasons, the copy of it that was released is full of black marks that prevent us from clarifying the unknown to which the sequel refers.

As you can imagine, this caused speculation about the title in question to skyrocket. There are quite a few voices suggesting that it refers to the long-awaited next installment of The Elder Scrolls, a title that was announced in 2018 and which now, in 2023, still doesn’t seem close. However, another very real possibility is that this is an as-yet unannounced sequel, and that opens up the possibilities in a more than significant way.

On the other hand, it is also interesting in its focus on how games grew and grew, surpassing even film productions in economic and time requirements. Ten years to develop a game is a long, long time, which also makes us think if part of this period is caused by problems during this process. In short, there are many questions that do not have an answer at this time, but which encourage us to speculate about names, dates and so on.