Game News Xbox boss wants to revive old Activision-Blizzard games
By relieving itself of 68.7 billion dollars to acquire Activision-Blizzard, Microsoft has created an earthquake in the video game industry. After Bethesda Softworks, the Redmond giant continues its seduction operation with (future) Game Pass subscribers and enriches its catalog with historical licenses. We have necessarily spoken long, wide and through Call of Duty, World of Warcraft or Candy Crush, but the American publisher has other franchises capable of cracking gamers.
It’s no secret. The big boss of Xbox, Phil Spencer, is known to be a video game enthusiast and he never misses an opportunity to bring back memories. Thus, during an interview with journalists from the Washington Post, the latter mentioned dormant licenses from Activision that he would like to see reborn. And while the average person might expect some hard-hitting names, the Ridgefield native has slipped in some amazing franchises.
I was looking at the list of games, and let’s get straight to it! King’s Quest, Guitar Hero…I should know, but I think they also hold witches.
By doing a quick recap of the Activision catalog, there are names that do not leave indifferent. Among the games mentioned by Phil Spencer, King’s Quest and witches will probably speak to many of you. The former is an iconic adventure game series while the latter is an FPS (the good old doom-like as we said a long time ago) of heroic-fantasy running on the engine of Doom. This declaration shows in any case one thing, it is that this takeover leaves no one indifferent, starting with the main players in the deal.
A LOT OF HISTORICAL LICENSES
We may forget it, but Activision was much more than the publisher of Call of Duty. By teaming up with Blizzard, they’ve picked up some great franchises on top of all the ones they had before. And some of these series leave you wondering. Jumble, we can cite the racing game Blur, the very Mad Max’ien Interstate ’76, the exhilarating True Crime : Streets of LA, the three mustaches of The Lost Vikings, leaping it Pitfall, hardcore Soldier of Fortune or the stealth Tenchu.
All these titles could thus be given a second life, either in the form of a remaster, or through new episodes. And seeing Phil Spencer quoting Hexen makes us think anything is possible.
With this takeover, which licenses would you like to see returned?
Through Ayden_, Journalist jeuxvideo.com
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