Yes. Zenimax. Not just Bethesda Softworks.

So that's a bit of a shift.

(My snarky side secretly hopes that this involves making a competent game engine for ES.)

So it's safe to assume that no more games from Bethesda are going to release here on GOG, since they're now Microsoft?

That tiny typo in the thread title makes a big difference :)

Also... what?! They were actually bought by Microsoft or just somehow joined an Xbox agreement?

edit: OK, I just paid more attention: "...Microsoft has entered into an agreement to acquire ZeniMax Media, parent company of Bethesda Softworks..."

No idea. Chances are that there are several formally Microsoft/Bethesda titles that neither company gives much a care about; Outwars was formerly Microsoft published.

ZeniMax Media Inc. and Bethesda Softworks will still release their video games for sale on gog.com.

MicroSoft will release their video games for sale on gog.com as well just give them time they need to have all of their business set up.

People seem to forget MicroSoft let at least one video game to be released for sale here on gog.com and that is Dust: An Eysian Tail.

Phil Spencer in like 2019 or whenever gog.com launched the linking of other video games stores to GOG Galaxy acknowledged gog.com.

There goes the last chance of Skyrim or Fallout 4 ever actually releasing DRM-free. Oddly enough, no company is as hostile to PC [Windows] gaming as Microsoft...

o.O Wonder what that means for any Bethesda titles already released here. I'm quite doubtful we'll see any more new(ish) or older releases from them anymore. Sad. =/

Looks like Brian Fargo/inXile and Obsidian might get the chance to work on something Fallout-related again in the future after all.

I see, so Microsoft decided to buy some companies to boost their MS shop. First aquire quite a few popular sellers then pull all games the same day and only sell them on MS own shop, that has not been doing well enough. Every serious gamer has access to that anyway, right, since if you want to play new games, like Cyberpunk 2077, you need Windows 10 anyway.

Alright, so it was pure speculation but maybe they try to learn from Zenimax' devious methods.

As much as i'm not a fan of Zenimax practices, i'm not especially happy to see more pubs and devs being gobbled up by large corps like MS, Sony or even larger publishers for that matter.

Did that bring any Microsoft distributed/release game to GOG? Nope :(

Well, maybe this is the chance for Microsoft to join GOG?
Highly unlikely, but you never know.
I just hope they fire and burn the entirety of Zenimax's executives, that would be a guilty pleasure for me. Yeah, Microsoft is a corporation as well and as bad as they can get, but at least some abusive ******ds might finally get the overdue retribution.

Not yet.