Microsoft announced the purchase of Activision Blizzard Studio. This is reported on the Corporation website.
“It is incredibly nice to announce that Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard,” said the head of Xbox Phil Spencer. The representative of the corporation noted that while the transaction is not closed, Activision Blizzard and Microsoft Gaming will continue to work independently of each other. The studio will then obey directly Spencer.
“After closing the transaction, we will offer as many Activision Blizzard games as possible at the Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass subscriptions – both new games and games from the incredible directory of Activision Blizzard,” the top manager Microsoft emphasized. Studio Activision Blizzard has created such famous game series, like Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Candy Crush, Tony Hawk, Diablo, Overwatch, Spyro, Hearthstone, Guitar Hero, Crash Bandicoot, Starcraft.
According to sources Edition The Wall Street Journal, which was the first to report on Microsoft’s intent to buy Activision BLIZZARD The transaction is estimated at 68.7 billion dollars.
In the fall of 2020, Microsoft announced the acquisition of the Bethesda Softworks studio – the creators of the Fallout and Doom series. According to Bloomberg, it was about $ 7.5 billion.