Microsoft buys off-peak industry titan Activision Blizzard for a whopping $68.7 billion
Stop the presses. It’s only been two weeks since 2022 began and it already seems to have arrived. one of the novelties of the year. This afternoon, Microsoft announces acquisition of Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. Some figures at first sight stratospheric, in particular compared to the acquisition of Bethesda, but also bring some of the biggest IPs in the industry to those in Redmond
“Creators of franchises such as Call of Duty, Warcraft, Candy Crush, Tony Hawk, Diablo, Overwatch, Spyro, Hearthstone, Guitar Hero, Crash Bandicoot, Starcraft and more join the Xbox team“, comments his Phil Spencer since official blog from Xbox.
Activision Blizzard is one of the most important companies in the video game industry which is currently not in the best shape due to multiple lawsuits for cases of sexual abuse and exploitation by its employees.
“Until the transaction closes, Activision Blizard and Microsoft Gaming will continue to operate independently. Once the deal is done, they’ll tell me how CEO
The big news for gamers is the inclusion of such a number of titles we will have available on Xbox Game Pass. Service that has reached the number of 25 million subscribers, according to Phil himself.
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