It surfaced when Microsoft officials announced last week that they would buy the Activision Blizzard gaming studio for $ 68.7 billion.
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The American software giant will thus now own a number of big names in the game world – at least Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Candy Crush, Tony Hawk, Diablo, Overwatch, Spyro, Hearthstone, Guitar Hero, Crash Bandicoot and StarCraft.
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Trailer for the game Spyro Reignited Trilogy
Video: Activision
“We are working hard on world-class content, community and the cloud to usher in a new era of gaming that puts players and creators first,” said Microsoft acquisition chief Satya Nadella.
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He added that the plans of the American company go back to the virtual universe. “Games today are the most dynamic and exciting category of entertainment across all platforms and will play a key role in the development of metaverse platforms,” said Nadella.
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But he did not want to reveal any more details about the plans with the metaverse yet.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
Foto: Charles Platiau, Reuters
What Epic Games and Meta are up to
Epic Games has been working on a new virtual world for product presentation and gaming since last year.
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Meta will also try to succeed with its own metaverse, as its founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed before last summer’s holidays. In the autumn, the company gave the whole plan more realistic outlines. It will seek to gradually hire 10,000 people in Europe to work on creating a virtual universe over the next ten to 15 years.
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Microsoft will pay $ 68.7 billion (approximately $ 1.5 trillion) to Activision Blizzard. Upon successful completion of the entire deal, the American software giant should become the third largest gaming company in the world, at least in terms of sales. It ranks closely behind Tencent and Sony. But trade has yet to be sanctioned by regulators.
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