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Blizzard
These days, regardless of Activision Blizzard’s sky-high valuation, the $69 billion that Microsoft simply spent to accumulate it, its energetic catalog boils right down to only a handful of video games. Effectively each Activision studio has been repurposed to pumping out Call of Duty video games yearly. Blizzard is now targeted on WoW, Diablo and Overwatch virtually completely and…there’s not a lot previous that. Nothing all that main, in any case.
However, earlier than Activision and Blizzard pared down their catalogue to only a few huge hits, they’d a secure of IPs that embody some basic video games and characters. Lots of them, the truth is. And they’re all simply sitting there, nonetheless owned by Activision, now in a position to be resurfaced by Microsoft who’s now the one which owns all these IPs because the deal has closed.
It’s just a little exhausting to recollect all of them offhand, and the checklist is…extraordinarily lengthy. Some heavy hitters on there, and a few you’ve by no means heard of, however it stands to cause Microsoft has its eye on a couple of of them right here. So, right here’s the grand checklist (which I cross-checked towards GI’s):
- Call of Duty
- Crash Bandicoot (one of many few non-Call of Duty collection Activision has not too long ago returned to)
- Diablo (presently this contains Diablo Immortal and Diablo 4, with seasonal help for Diablo 3 wrapping up, although Diablo 2 Resurrected remains to be going fairly robust)
- Gabriel Knight
- Geometry Wars
- Guitar Hero (this routinely comes up as one thing that’s prone to be introduced again, particularly by Bobby Kotick. I’m genuinely curious as to the way it will work attempting to promote plastic peripherals like that in 2023, however we’ll see)
- Gun
- Hearthstone (the Blizzard sport that’s most likely the least talked about lately)
- Heroes of the Storm (I’ve seen some followers hoping that there shall be a reinvestment within the MOBA)
- Heavy Gear
- Hexen (the possession rights round this have been just a little unclear, however Phil Spencer’s Hexen shirt appears to point that could be within the playing cards)
- Heretic (identical deal right here)
- Interstate ’76
- King’s Quest (looks as if a candidate to be revived above most of those others)
- Laura Bow Mystery Series
- The Lost Vikings (I wouldn’t rule it out)
- Overwatch (please do one thing with this universe aside from the seasonal multiplayer mannequin without end)
- Phantasmagoria
- Pitfall
- Police Quest (unlikely to return within the present state of issues)
- Prototype (I imply I might play a modern-day model of this, there was plenty of cool stuff in right here, however I’m unsure in the event that they’d put money into it)
- Quest for Glory
- Singularity
- Ski Resort Tycoon
- Skylanders (I feel lots of people have been stunned when this shut down, and the IP may very well be revived even when the format of the collection modified)
- Soldier of Fortune
- Space Quest
- Spryo (can virtually assure we’ll see Spyro come again in some type)
- Starcraft
- SWAT
- Tenchu (please, please convey this again)
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater (one other current collection Activision has been toying round with by way of remakes and such)
- True Crime
- Ultimate Soccer Manager
- Warcraft (Feels just like the Warcraft IP may very well be use for lots moreover WoW, even when it’s not a return to being an RTS)
- World of Warcraft
- Zork
That’s my tackle issues, and naturally I’m ignoring King’s dozens of cell video games. What do you need to see from checklist above the rest?
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