On October 13, Microsoft accomplished its practically two-year-long course of of consuming Activision Blizzard King. And whereas it can take months and years for Xbox and all of the events concerned to type every little thing out and begin bringing previous Activision Blizzard video games to Sport Go, for now, we will tally up every little thing Microsoft seemingly now owns.
To place collectively this listing I dug round a number of totally different locations and double-checked some franchises to substantiate who owns what. In some instances I wasn’t ready to determine a decisive reply, so I left these out. I additionally prevented including each single recreation these corporations have revealed, as some had been one-offs which have by no means been touched since and that don’t really feel like a “franchise.” Lastly, simply because Activision or different corporations beforehand revealed an X-Males or ESPN-branded recreation doesn’t imply the writer owns that model and even that particular recreation. So these aren’t on right here, both.
With all that mentioned, right here’s my greatest shot at assessing each gaming franchise Microsoft now owns (in all probability).
Activision/Blizzard
- 3D Extremely Pinball
- Name of Responsibility
- Name to Energy
- Crash Bandicoot
- Darkish Reign
- Diablo
- Excessive PaintBrawl
- Entrance Web page Sports activities Baseball
- Gabriel Knight
- Geometry Wars
- Guitar Hero
- Gun
- Hearthstone
- Heavy Gear
- Heretic
- Heroes of the Storm
- Hexen
- Interstate ‘76
- King’s Quest
- Laura Bow Thriller Sequence
- Misplaced Vikings, The
- Matt Hoffman’s Professional BMX
- Overwatch
- Phantasmagoria
- Pitfall
- Police Quest
- Prototype
- Quest for Glory
- SWAT
- Singularity
- Skylanders
- Soldier of Fortune
- House Quest
- Spyro
- StarCraft
- Tenchu (solely the video games launched earlier than Activision bought the rights to From Software program in 2004)
- Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater
- True Crime
- Final Soccer Supervisor
- Warcraft
- World of Warcraft
- Zork
King
- AlphaBetty Saga
- Blossom Blast Saga
- Bubble Saga
- Bubble Witch Saga
- Sweet Crush Saga
- Diamond Digger Saga
- Farm Heroes Saga
- Hoop de Loop Saga
- Papa Pear Saga
- Paradise Bay
- Pepper Panic Saga
- Pet Rescue Saga
- Pyramid Solitaire Saga
- Insurgent Riders
- Scrubby Dubby Saga
- Shuffle Cats
Bethesda / Zenimax
- Commander Eager
- Deathloop
- Dishonored
- Doom
- Elder Scrolls
- Fallout
- Hello-Fi Rush
- Prey
- Quake
- Rage
- Redfall
- Starfield
- The Evil Inside
- Wolfenstein
Xbox / Microsoft
- Age of Empires
- Age of Mythology
- Banjo-Kazooie
- Bard’s Story, The
- Battletoads
- Blinx: The Time Sweeper
- Blue Dragon
- Conker
- Costume Quest
- Crackdown
- Crimson Skies
- Fable
- Forza
- Gears of Warfare
- Halo
- Killer Intuition
- Kinect Sports activities
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Midtown Insanity
- Minecraft
- Excellent Darkish
- Pillars of Eternity
- Venture Gotham Racing
- Psychonauts
- R.C. Professional-Am
- Rise of Nations
- Sabreman
- State of Decay
- Thunder (Hydro Thunder, Arctic Thunder, and so forth.)
- Viva Pinata
- Wasteland
- Zoo Tycoon
And contemplate this enjoyable problem when you take all of it in: Strive not to consider how unhappy it’s that so few firms now personal a lot of our popular culture. Let me let you know, I failed! However no less than Name of Responsibility can be free on Sport Go sooner or later, proper?
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