Microsoft buys gaming giant Activision Blizzard

A bang in the gaming industry: The US software group Microsoft is taking over the gaming giant Activision-Blizzard, known for the online role-playing game “World of Warcraft” and the long-lived shooter series “Call of Duty”. The purchase price for the company, which was recently shaken by scandals, is almost 70 billion dollars. This makes it the biggest gaming deal of all time.

Microsoft is thus continuing the expansion of its gaming division under the Xbox label. As early as autumn 2020, the Redmond software giant had taken over the games publisher Bethesda – krone.at reported – with brands such as “Doom” or “Fallout” for more than six billion US dollars. It was the most expensive deal in the gaming industry at the time – until Microsoft announced the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard on Tuesday. Activision-Blizzard is a heavyweight in the gaming industry and is behind such popular game series as – see video – “World of Warcraft”, “Overwatch”, the “Diablo” series, “Starcraft” or “Call of Duty”. The company is also a giant when it comes to smartphone games, and is represented on the mobile phone with “Candy Crush”. from $65.39 in the previous US trading day on Friday. The game company will be valued at a total of $ 68.7 billion (60.4 billion euros), as Microsoft announced. The previous boss of Activision-Blizzard, Bobby Kotick, should remain at the top of the game company, it said. Kotick had come under criticism in recent months following allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination against company managers.

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