Microsoft stunned the gaming industry when it announced Tuesday it’s buying game publisher Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion in a deal that would make it a larger video-game company than Nintendo.
The maker of the Xbox gaming system said acquiring the owner of Candy Crush, Call of Duty, Overwatch and Diablo would be good for gamers and advance its ambitions for the metaverse — a vision for creating immersive virtual worlds for work and play.
