Microsoft has just put an end to the long process of acquiring Activision Blizzard King that began two years ago now. A key step for the American giant, which now finds itself at the head of numerous licenses. Let’s take stock of this impressive catalog together.
Since this Friday, October 13, 2023, the video game giant Activision-Blizzard-King is officially a subsidiary of a monster of the high-tech industry: Microsoft. Indeed, the Redmond firm has confirmed the acquisition of the American publisher, after a long and complicated process that began more than two years ago.
“And today, we officially welcome Activision Blizzard and its teams to Xbox. They are the publishers of some of the most played and beloved franchises in console, PC and mobile gaming history. From Pitfall to Call of Duty, from World of Warcraft to Overwatch, from Candy Crunch to Farm Heroes Saga, their studios have pushed the boundaries of gaming for gamers everywhere,” said Phil Spencer, the boss of Xbox, in an official press release.
Of course, it will still be several months before we see Call of Duty or other flagship licenses land on Xbox Game Pass. In the case of the king of FPS, however, we imagine that Microsoft will do everything possible to accelerate the pace and offer the license on its gaming service. It must be said that it will be a great selling point for Game Pass.
List of licenses owned by Microsoft
But precisely, now that Activision-Blizzard-King is officially the property of Microsoft, what does the American company’s video game catalog consist of? Suffice to say that there is a choice between world-famous or more confidential licenses. Here is the complete list:
Activision-Blizzard
- 3D Ultra Pinball
- Call of Duty
- Call to Power
- Crash Bandicoot
- Dark Reign
- Diablo
- Extreme PaintBrawl
- Front Page Sports Baseball
- Gabriel Knight
- Geometry Wars
- Guitar Hero
- Gun
- Hearthstone
- Heavy Gear
- Heretic
- Heroes of the Storm
- Hexen
- Interstate ’76
- King’s Quest
- Laura Bow Mystery Series
- Lost Vikings
- Matt Hoffman’s Pro BMX
- Overwatch
- Phantasmagoria
- Pitfall
- Police Quest
- Prototype
- Quest for Glory
- SWAT
- Singularity
- Skylanders
- Soldier of Fortune
- Space Quest
- Spyro
- StarCraft
- Tenchu (only the games released before Activision sold the rights to From Software in 2004)
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
- True Crime
- Ultimate Soccer Manager
- Warcraft
- World of Warcraft
- Zork
King
- AlphaBetty Saga
- Blossom Blast Saga
- Bubble Saga
- Bubble Witch Saga
- Candy Crush Saga
- Diamond Digger Saga
- Farm Heroes Saga
- Hoop from Loop Saga
- Papa Pear Saga
- Paradise Bay
- Pepper Panic Saga
- Pet Rescue Saga
- Pyramid Solitaire Saga
- Rebel Riders
- Scrubby Dubby Saga
- Shuffle Cats
Bethesda/Zenimax
- Order Keen
- Deathloop
- Dishonored
- Doom
- Elder Scrolls
- fallout
- Hi-Fi Rush
- Prey
- Quake
- Rage
- Redfall
- Starfield
- The Evil Within
- Wolfenstein
Xbox Studios/Microsoft
- Age of Empires
- Age of Mythology
- Banjo-Kazooie
- The Bard’s Tale
- Battletoads
- Blinx: The Time Sweeper
- Blue Dragon
- Conker
- Costume Quest
- Crackdown
- Crimson Skies
- Fable
- Forza
- Gears of War
- Halo
- Killer Instinct
- Kinect Sports
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Midtown Madness
- Minecraft
- Perfect Dark
- Pillars of Eternity
- Project Gotham Racing
- Psychonauts
- RC Pro-Am
- Rise of Nations
- Sabreman
- State of Decay
- Thunder (Hydro Thunder, Arctic Thunderetc.)
- Viva Pinata
- Wasteland
- Zoo Tycoon
As a reminder, we recently mentioned in our columns the possible return of the Guitar Hero saga with the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard by Microsoft.