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On January 18, 2022, Microsoft announced its intent to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. [1] The acquisition was completed on October 13, 2023, with its total cost amounting to $75.4 billion. [2] Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft brought Activision Blizzard under its Microsoft Gaming business unit as a sibling division to ...
UPDATED: Microsoft closed a $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard on Friday after getting the green light from regulators in the U.K., nearly two years after it was first announced.
The game series earns Activision Blizzard billions each year, with the latest installment, 2022's "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II," clearing $1 billion in sales in its first 10 days on the market ...
Activision Blizzard, Inc. [a] is an American video game holding company based in Santa Monica, California. [3] ... (Activision's stock ticker). At this point, ...
Activision Blizzard (ATVI) shares jumped in pre-market after Microsoft (MSFT) announced it will acquire the video game publisher for $95 dollars per share. The deal is valued at $68.7 billion.
Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one of the largest third-party video game publishers in the world and was the top United States publisher ...
Activision Blizzard’s stock had fallen from around $90 per share when the scandal broke to some $57 per share in December. Shares rocketed to $82 on Jan. 17 after news of the acquisition broke.
This is a list of largest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the video game industry with publicly disclosed deal values.Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard is the most expensive video game acquisitions of all time followed by Activision-Vivendi Games merger and Take-Two Interactive-Zynga acquisition. 14 of the 20 most expensive video game purchases in video game history occurred ...