Game Companies Owned By Microsoft

Every game and studio Microsoft now owns

(Image credit: Activision-Blizzard)

2 years later on buying ZeniMax Media and scooping upward games like The Elderberry Scrolls and Starfield, Microsoft has announced its plans to purchase Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. The acquisition, which is ready to finalize in July 2023, volition be ane of the biggest buyouts in gaming. Microsoft volition own developers behind fifty-fifty more than of the most popular games, including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Candy Beat out.

With Microsoft gobbling up so many studios and games, information technology's difficult to go on rails of what the mammoth corporation owns. To make it a little clearer, here's a list of every studio that Microsoft Studios owns.

Although this list is hefty, it's non the ultimate reflection of Microsoft's influence. The company also has plenty of other distribution deals with a multifariousness of developers that are non listed here because information technology does non directly own them, like Ori and the Blind Forest developer Moon Studios.

Publishers

Price: $7.5 billion

Studios: Bethesda Game Studios, ZeniMax Online Studios, id Software, Arkane Studios, Auto Games, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog Games, and Roundhouse Studios

Best-known games and franchises: The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, Dishonored, and The Evil Within

Upcoming games: Ghostwire: Tokyo, Redfall, and Starfield

Activision Blizzard (opens in new tab)

Price: $68.7 billion

Studios: Blizzard, Treyarch, Infinity Ward, High Moon Studios, Toys for Bob, Raven Software, Sledgehammer Games, Beenox, Radical Amusement, and Vicarious Visions (now merged with Blizzard)

Best-known games and franchises: Call of Duty, Globe of Warcraft, Diablo, Hearthstone, Overwatch, StarCraft, Candy Crush, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Guitar Hero, Skylanders, and Spyro the Dragon

Upcoming games: Diablo 4, Overwatch two, and Phone call of Duty (2022)

Developers

Rare

Cost: $375 million

Best-known games and franchises: GoldenEye 007, Perfect Dark, Banjo Kazooie, Viva Piñata, Sea of Thieves, and Battletoads

Upcoming games: Everwild

343 Industries (Halo)

Toll: Unknown

Best-known games and franchises: Halo

Upcoming games: Unknown

The Coalition (Gears of War)

Price: Unknown

Best-known games and franchises: Gears of War

Upcoming games: Unknown

Mojang

Price: $2.5 billion

Best-known games and franchises: Minecraft and Minecraft Dungeons

Upcoming games: Unknown

Ninja Theory (opens in new tab)

Price: Unknown

Best-known games and franchises: Heavenly Sword, DmC: Devil May Cry, Disney Infinity, and Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Upcoming games: Senua'south Saga: Hellblade 2 and Project: Mara

Playground Games

Toll: Unknown

Best-known games and franchises: Forza Horizon, Forza Motorsport

Upcoming games: Legend

Undead Labs

Price: Unknown

Best-known games and franchises: State of Decay

Upcoming games: State of Decay 3

Compulsion Games

Price: Unknown

Best-known games and franchises: Dissimilarity and We Happy Few

Upcoming games: Unknown

Obsidian Entertainment (opens in new tab)

Price: Unknown

Best-known games and franchises: Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords, Neverwinter Nights 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Due south Park: The Stick of Truth, Pillars of Eternity, The Outer Worlds, and Grounded

Upcoming games: Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2

InXile Entertainment (opens in new tab)

Cost: Unknown

All-time-known games and franchises: Wasteland two, Torment: Tides of Numenera, and Wasteland iii

Upcoming games: Unknown

Double Fine

Price: Unknown

Best-known games and franchises: Psychonauts, Broken Historic period, Brütal Legend, Costume Quest, and Grim Fandango Remastered

Upcoming games: Unknown

Tried to buy

Discord (opens in new tab)

Toll: $12 billion

Why it didn't happen: Discord rejected the bid, according to Bloomberg.

Square Enix

Toll: Unknown

Why it didn't happen: Square Enix refuted the report, claiming that it'due south not selling off the company or whatsoever part of its businesses.

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