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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

EXPLAINER: Microsoft's Activision buy could shake up gaming

Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Microsoft stunned the gaming industry when it announced this week it would buy game publisher Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, a deal that would immediately make it a larger video-game company than Nintendo

Microsoft, maker of the Xbox gaming system, said the deal would be good for gamers and advance its ambitions for the metaverse — a vision for creating immersive virtual worlds for both work and play.

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