Microsoft announced today that it has acquired Zenimax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Studios, bringing the likes of Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, Doom, and more into the Microsoft family.
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The acquisition has cost $7.5 billion, which is a huge amount of money for such a purchase. While it’s a different industry, Disney paid just $4 billion for Marvel.
Below, we’ve listed ten high profile video game developer and publisher acquisitions, to compare the prices with that of the Zenimax purchase.
Activision Blizzard – King – $5.9 Billion
In November 2015, Activision Blizzard confirmed that they had acquired King for $5.9 billion. King boasted more than half a billion monthly active users at the time across their many mobile games, headlined by Candy Crush.
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