Microsoft was poised to shut the controversial Activision Blizzard deal this week, and now, it’s public — Microsoft owns the developer. This triumphant success follows a 12 months’s value of authorized rigmarole from battling Sony and providing up a 10-year COD contract to batting off FTC claims.
Lastly, in spite of everything that, Phil Spencer took to Xbox Wire (thanks Xbox Nerds) on Friday to disclose the deal’s formally closed and that it’ll “study, innovate, and proceed to ship on our promise to deliver the enjoyment and neighborhood of gaming to extra folks.”
Studios Microsoft now owns embody main gamers together with Infinity Ward, King Video games, Activision, Sledgehammer Video games, Treyarch, Toys For Bob, and extra.
It’s a bittersweet conclusion to the deal, as Microsoft has gone on to shift round fashions — Bethesda couldn’t probably have been so busy making Starfield that it by no means thought that it might deliver the subsequent Elder Scrolls to PlayStation — however we digress.
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