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Written by Rahul Chettiyar, Edited by Akhil Arora, Siddharth Suvarna | Updated: 2 September 2022 11:00 IST

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Microsoft agreed to purchase Activision for $68 billion in January

Highlights

Investigation of Microsoft-Activision acquisition has entered phase 2
No details on when Call of Duty gets added to Xbox Game
Game is also looking to expand onto mobile with more Blizzard games

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Call of Duty will Xbox Game , Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has confirmed. A Microsoft blog post details that Activision Blizzard's library of games will be available on the Xbox game subscription service, once the acquisition deal goes through. The lineup will also include other quality titles such as Overwatch and Diablo. That said, Call of Duty will not be treated as an Xbox-exclusive title. Going forward, Call of Duty will launch on Xbox Game , while still maintaining a same-day PlayStation release.

The announcement comes after the CMA (Competition and Markets Authority) — UK's regulatory body — concluded its Game . And second: bringing more games to mobile platforms.

Due to the Activision Blizzard acquisition, players were worried about the Call of Duty franchise getting hard-locked to PlayStation on launch day. While there are no set details yet, this could mean that any console-exclusive bonuses or cosmetic items will be shared between both platforms.

“We know players benefit from this approach because we've done it with Spencer noted that Sony was an important part of the gaming industry and they wanted to maintain that relationship.

Currently, there are no details on when the Call of Duty lineup gets added to Xbox. Earlier this month, studio PS5, while Xbox and PC players get access later in the week. While future Call of Duty titles will launch on the same day across both consoles, once this acquisition goes through, we could expect minor bonuses like “early access” d exclusively on the Xbox front.

Blizzard focuses on more mobile game launches.

That said, there is no mention of World of Warcraft coming to Game , though it could have something to do with the payment system. WoW functions on a monthly recurring subscription basis, where players are asked to pay a minimum of $14.99 (about Rs. 1,193) monthly to keep it running. It's not going to be straightforward to incorporate World of Warcraft with Game , as players might get asked to pay an additional sum on top of Xbox's subscription.

Earlier this month, court documents from the Microsoft-CADE trial revealed that Xbox One had sold less than half of PS4 units in its lifetime. As of March, the PlayStation 4 has sold 117.2 million units, putting Xbox One sales at a value of less than 58.6 million units. Microsoft stopped releasing console sales information since 2015, instead focussing on Xbox Live numbers.

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