{"id":1191924,"date":"2023-10-13T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1191924"},"modified":"2023-10-13T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T12:55:00","slug":"microsoft-finally-closes-massive-activision-blizzard-deal-making-call-of-duty-officially-part-of-xbox-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1191924","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Finally Closes Massive Activision Blizzard Deal, Making Call Of Duty Officially Part Of Xbox Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/7317adaae777fe8662e442d0f8264939.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The video game industry <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/this-was-inevitable-1848380310\">just got a lot smaller<\/a>. The long and winding saga of Microsoft\u2019s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard has finally come to a close with the companies announcing the completed merger today following <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition-cma-uk-xbox-1850864469\">one last greenlight from regulators in the UK<\/a>. Call of Duty is <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2023\/10\/13\/xbox-activision-blizzard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now part of Xbox and the\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition-game-pass-1850923561\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Kotaku &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition-game-pass-1850923561\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Finally Closes Massive Activision Blizzard Deal, Making Call Of Duty Officially Part Of Xbox Now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video game industry just got a lot smaller. The long and winding saga of Microsoft\u2019s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard has finally come to a close with the companies announcing the completed merger today following one last greenlight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1191924\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1191925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,110],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-1191924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kotaku","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-kotaku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1191924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1191925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1191924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1191924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1191924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}