Activision Blizzard deal: Xbox buys these studios and franchises
These games and studios will soon be part of Microsoft.
When thinking about which games belong to Activision Blizzard, many probably think of Call of Duty or World of Warcraft. But the publisher giant actually owns many other franchises and studios. We list for you what comes with Xbox when closing the Activision deal from Microsoft.
That’s the deal: Microsoft has announced that they will buy Activision Blizzard. Overall, this project should cost the tech giant almost 70 billion US dollars. The deal should be finalized by 2023 and then the entire publisher with all studios and video game series will belong to Microsoft. You can find out more about buying here:
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These video game series will be owned by Microsoft in the future
The most important thing about Microsoft’s deal for video game fans will be which series will now be on Xbox. We summarize for you all:
- Assault Heroes
- Blackthorn
- Bubble Witch Saga
- Cabela-Spiele (Off Road-Racing, Jagdsimulatoren)
- Call of Duty
- Candy Crush Saga
- Crash Bandicoot
- Dark Reign
- Diablo
- Empire Earth
- Farm Heroes Saga
- Gabriel Knight
- Geometry Wars
- Guitar Hero
- Gun
- Hearthstone
- witches
- King’s Quest
- Overwatch
- Pitfall
- Police Quest
- Quest for Glory
- Rock N’ Roll Racing
- Skylanders
- Soldier of Fortune
- Space Quest
- Spyro
- StarCraft
- SWAT
- The Lost Vikings
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
- Warcraft
- Zork
Game Pass is bursting at the seams: If you see this list and are a member of Xbox Game Pass, rejoice. Microsoft will gradually offer most of these games and much more as a subscription service. In addition to this, it could also be that older titles will benefit from the FPS boost. You can read what that is here:
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These studios will soon be part of Xbox
Microsoft is not only getting the rights to the series for the deal, but also their developer studios on board. This also includes some greats of the video game world such as Infinity Ward (Call of Duty) or Blizzard (Diablo).
All studios at a glance:
- Beenox (Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled)
- Blizzard Entertainment (Diablo, Warcraft, Overwatch)
- High Moon Studios (Deadpool, Transformers)
- Infinity Ward (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare)
- King (Candy Crush Saga)
- Raven Software (Call of Duty)
- Sledgehammer Games (Call of Duty: Vanguard)
- Toys for Bob (Crash Bandicoot 4, Skylanders, Spyro)
- Treyarch (Call of Duty Black Ops)
You can read here which other studios belong to Microsoft:
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Exactly what will happen to Activision Blizzard Studios under Microsoft is not yet clear. A dismissal of employees or even closure will very likely not happen or at most in individual cases. When it took over Bethesda, at least Microsoft didn’t change the basic course of Studios.
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