A new year is always full of surprises, but few could have predicted the out-of-nowhere announcement today that Microsoft intends to purchase Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard, a company that’s spent the last year engulfed in scandal, with a massive $68.7 billion acquisition offer.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkp3q8/the-consequences-of-microsoft-buying-activision-blizzard-are-dizzying