Today is an effective day to play. We have accomplished the acquisition of Activision Blizzard and are welcoming Activision Blizzard and its companies to Microsoft Gaming.
Activision, Blizzard, and King publish a number of the most performed and most beloved franchises in gaming historical past, from Pitfall to Call of Duty, Warcraft to Overwatch, Candy Crush Saga to Farm Heroes Super Saga. By combining Xbox with Activision Blizzard’s ability, information, and superb legacy of video games, we’ll convey the enjoyment and neighborhood of gaming to much more gamers world wide.
We are keen to study from their creativity, alternate insights and greatest practices, and empower our new colleagues to convey their visions to the widest attainable viewers. And as we speak, we formally begin the work of bringing extra groundbreaking video games to extra gamers than ever earlier than and throughout new platforms from cell to cloud streaming. We additionally start the work to make Activision, Blizzard, and King’s muchloved library of video games obtainable in Game Pass and different platforms — we’ll have extra to share within the coming months.
We couldn’t be extra excited that Activision Blizzard staff are our colleagues, co-workers, and teammates. Bobby Kotick has agreed to stay in his position via the tip of 2023, reporting instantly to me, to guarantee a easy and seamless integration. We look ahead to working collectively as a unified workforce and we’ll share extra updates on our new organizational construction within the coming months.
I‘d like to give a very special and heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped make this acquisition possible. We couldn’t have completed this with out your dedication.
Over the approaching weeks, I’ll be visiting the Activision, Blizzard, and King workplaces, together with members of our Gaming Leadership Team. We’ll have the chance to welcome our new colleagues at our subsequent digital all-hands for Xbox staff, and for the higher Microsoft neighborhood, we’ll talk about this and extra within the November 8 session of the Company Strategy Series.
Together, we will unlock a world of prospects for gamers and creators.
Phil