Microsoft Acquires Activision Blizzard for $69B to Play “key role” in Metaverse DevelopmentScott Hayden On Jan 18, 2022 Categories: News Microsoft announced it’s planning to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, making it the largest gaming acquisition to date. Microsoft CEO Satya ...
Acquiring Activision Blizzard gives Microsoft access to multi-million dollar IPs such as Call of Duty, Overwatch, Diablo, and WarCraft franchises, as well as studios such as Treyarch and Infinity Ward, at a time when video game IP is proving highly valuable — just see the success of HBO’...
China's State Administration has approved Microsoft's attempted $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, joining a total of 37 regulators including the EU and Japan. The news was first surfaced today on SeekingAlpha via a Dealreporter item, and has since been confirmed via a statement ...
Microsoft announced Friday that it has completed the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, a US game production and distribution company, for US$69 billion (500 billion yuan), the largest merger in the history of the gaming industry. Activision Blizzard’s stock stands at US$94.42 per share, showi...
The planned acquisition includes iconic franchises from the Activision, Blizzard and King studios like “Warcraft,”“Diablo,”“Overwatch,”“Call of Duty” and “Candy Crush,” in addition to global eSports activities through Major League Gaming. The comp...
litigation, the $69 billion acquisition first announced in January 2022 is finally complete. Now that Activision Blizzard is officially part of Microsoft and a sister company to Xbox Game Studios and ZeniMax Media, that raises an important question: What does this acquisition mean for you as a ...
On October 13, 2023, Microsoft Corporation, a Washington corporation (“Microsoft”), completed its previously announced acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Activision Blizzard”). Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended, supplemented or...
Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzardtook a year and a halfand wasn't fun for anyone. But it's finally over, which means it's time to figure out what that means for gamers. The news became official on theXbox Wireblog on Friday morning, confirming that the biggest corporate acqui...
Microsoft is going to hope the FTC’s appeal is not successful — or timely enough to happen pre-merger — and will do all it can to get this Activision Blizzard acquisition done in North America before that July 18 date. The FTC and CMA are still presenting roadblocks that coul...
On Jan. 18, 2022, Microsoft announced plans to acquire video game developer Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. The acquisition, Microsoft's largest, represents a substantial investment in gaming and the metaverse.13 Below, we look in detail at six of Microsoft’s key acquisitions, which larg...