Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard
 

They deserve each other.

Another 'in case you needed proof that gaming is bigger than movies...' moment.

MS will be paying for Activision Blizzard about eight times what Disney paid for Marvel and Lucasfilm combined.

And the ActiBliz slime in charge gets to slide out of the top role without any consequence, or changing the badly fucked up culture.

Oh the Actibliz corporate slime are a Xmas present to Microsoft. Without the slime Actibliz's share price wouldn't have dropped 30%. The slime saved Microsoft billions of dollars.

I've never kept track of who owns what. Can someone make a graph or something?

Here ya go.

Best discovery from that pic: Early Sony Playstation mascot Crash Bandicoot is now owned by Microsoft

A chart! That's what I meant, thank you.

I am a big fan of DOOM by id Software, a subsidiary of Bethesda Softworks, a subsidiary of Zenimax Media, a subsidiary of Xbox Game Studios, a subsidiary of Microsoft.

And as an also-ran, Sony buys Bungie