Anyone with a faint connection to video games has probably already heard the news that rocked the industry just the other day. Immediately following Take-Two’s $13 billion acquisition of Zynga, Xbox set the new record for the largest corporate buyout in the games industry with a $68.7 billion buyout of Activision Blizzard. It will take up to a year-and-a-half for the deal to be finalized, but the gaming community will still be reeling from the implications of such a huge announcement. Not since Activision merged with Vivendi Games in 2008, and added Blizzard to its name, has there been such an industry-shaping acquisition.
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