Microsoft announced that it has agreed to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, accelerating the companies plans to expand the Xbox community across mobile, PC, and console. Creators of Call of Duty, Warcraft, Candy Crush, Tony Hawk, Diablo, Overwatch, Spyro, Hearthstone, Guitar Hero, Crash Bandicoot, StarCraft and more join Team Xbox.

The world-renowned franchises and talented people at Activision Blizzard will be joining Team Xbox! That's the shock announcement made this week via Twitter by Microsoft CEO Gaming Phil Spencer.

Today is a historic moment. We are excited to announce that the world-renowned franchises and talented people at @ATVI_AB will be joining Team Xbox!  

Full announcement details here: https://t.co/RwF0QgXVwE pic.twitter.com/jIXuYCcndG

— Xbox (@Xbox) January 18, 2022

Until this transaction closes, Activision Blizzard and Microsoft Gaming will continue to operate independently. Once the deal is complete, the Activision Blizzard business will report to me as CEO, Microsoft Gaming.

Upon close, we will offer as many Activision Blizzard games as we can within Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass, both new titles and games from Activision Blizzard’s incredible catalog. We also announced today that Game Pass now has more than 25 million subscribers. As always, we look forward to continuing to add more value and more great games to Game Pass.

Learn what this means for the many iconic games and player communities over on the official Activision Blizzard website.

Source: Xbox Wire