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Infocom was bought by Activision, ActivisionBlizzard was bought by Microsoft.
by seritools 10mo ago
Infocom was bought by Activision, ActivisionBlizzard was bought by Microsoft.
- randall 10mo agowhoa til microsoft owns blizzard.
- entropicdrifter 10mo agoYou're one of today's lucky 10,000. It was huge news at the time. The FTC considered not allowing it and the acquisition got delayed for months while back and forth public debate raged.
- danso 10mo agoEasy to forget all the big moves that happened recently, especially since there haven't been (afaict) any major changes to service. I forgot the other day that Sony had bought Bungie, though it'd be pretty memorable if Sony announced Destiny 3 as a PS5 timed exclusive.
- tshaddox 10mo agoMassive media/telecom/tech companies get passed around between other massive media/telecom/tech companies so much that regardless of how much you saw the news at the time, a couple of years later it's tough to remember "Now who is it that owns Warner Bros. currently? AOL? AT&T? Netflix? The sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia?"
- Gormo 10mo agoAnd Sierra. It would be amazing if MS released the source code to some of Sierra classic Hi-Res/AGI/SCI games, or the engines themselves. IIRC, Al Lowe had retained copies of source code from the early Sierra days, and was planning to release some of it publicly a few years ago, but Activision shut him down. Maybe MS would be willing to reconsider that now that they're pursuing historical preservation.
- pjmlp 10mo agoMicrosoft owns lots of studios, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Gaming_studios https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Gaming_studi... Hence why when people think it is only a XBox console and nothing else, couldn't be more wrong.