In case you somehow missed the news that Microsoft is set to acquire Activision Blizzard for an obscene amount of money, now you do! It will certainly cause quite the stir, and will frankly change how things will operate moving forward.

No no, Microsoft isn’t buying just Activision, nor just Blizzard or even just a couple of franchises. Microsoft is buying everything, adding more studios to their already vaunted lineup.

Of course, an acquisition of this magnitude will certainly ruffle some feathers, but above that, we’ll be finding some franchises and IP’s shift homes once the ink is dry on the deal. Imagine Crash and Spyro now wearing Microsoft colors? Who would have thought!

List Of Activision Blizzard IP’s To Be Owned By Microsoft

Thankfully, VGC has compiled a handy list of all the IP’s that will be under Microsoft’s property sooner or later, and the list is massive as you can suspect. There are big franchises in there, and it’ll be exciting to see what will happen to these once all is said and done.

Here are all of the IP’s now potentially owned by Microsoft:

• Blur
• Caesar
• Call of Duty
• Candy Crush
• Crash Bandicoot
• Diablo
• DJ Hero
• Empire Earth
• Gabriel Knight
• Geometry Wars
• Guitar Hero
• Gun
• Hearthstone
• Heroes of the Storm
• Hexen
• Interstate ’76
• King’s Quest
• Laura Bow Mysteries
• The Lost Vikings
• Overwatch
• Phantasmagoria
• Pitfall
• Police Quest
• Prototype
• Quest for Glory
• Singularity
• Skylanders
• Solider of Fortune
• Space Quest
• Spyro the Dragon
• StarCraft
• Tenchu (legacy games)
• TimeShift
• Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
• True Crime
• World of Warcraft
• Zork

List Of Activision Blizzard Studios To Be Owned By Microsoft

More than the IP’s, here’s a list of studios as well:

• Blizzard Entertainment
• King.com Limited
• Major League Gaming Corp.
• Activision Blizzard Studios
• Activision Blizzard Consumer Products Group
• Beenox
• Demonware
• Digital Legends Entertainment
• High Moon Studios
• Infinity Ward
• Raven Software
• Sledgehammer Games
• Solid State
• Toys for Bob
• Treyarch

This is what nearly $70 Billion can get you in the gaming space, and it’ll certainly boost the value proposition of Game Pass in the long run seeing as most, if not all, of these will hit the subscription service day and date.

What do you think of the Activision Blizzard acquisition by Microsoft?