The largest gaming deal in history
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Microsoft said it plans to buy mega games company Activision Blizzard in deal worth almost $70bn. How will this deal transform the gaming industry? We hear from Louise Shorthouse, senior games analyst at Ampere Analysis. Plus, are we all eventually going to live in a virtual world? Philosopher David Chalmers explains why he believes that virtual reality will overtake the material world. And, what makes a game go viral? We hear from Wordle fan and associate professor at Texas Tech University, Nick Bowman.
(Image: the logos of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. Credit: Getty).
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| 0:41.5 | Not bad, Jane, yet. A busy week on the technology beat again. |
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| 0:57.1 | as soon as possible. Absolutely. So we've got a bit of a games theme to this week's show, |
| 1:03.2 | from a mind-boggling purchase from Microsoft to a very simple free game that is taking |
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