Sign in to your Polygon.com account Nearly four-and-a-half years after the acquisition was first announced, Microsoft has finally settled the last remaining legal challenge to its acquisition of Activision Blizzard. …
… Should the merger go through, the recently announced Paramount Game Studios would theoretically absorb Warner Bros. Games and studios like Avalanche Software, NetherRealm Studios, Rocksteady Studios, and TT Games. …
… We do have a stake in it because we now own the IP," Gattis explains, "but that IP acquisition happened after the First Light IO deal was already done." That's all part of Amazon's strategy to fully capitalize on the intellectual property it owns and the broad reach of the company's entertainment b… …
… As the Xbox Series consoles failed, Game Pass plateaued, and the Activision deal dramatically altered Microsoft's scale, it became necessary for studios like Ninja Theory and Compulsion to produce high-volume multiplatform hits, which was not what they were bought for, and not what they were equipp… …