LOS ANGELES — You don’t have to be a regular gamer to recognize titles like “Call of Duty” and “Candy Crush,” games that are now, as they say, under new ownership.

Microsoft recently acquired Activsion Blizzard in a massive $69 billion deal.

What does that mean for the nearly $188 billion gaming industry? And, what does it mean for gamers?

LA Times Sarah Parvini joined Lisa McRee on “LA Times Today” with more on the record-shattering deal.

Since it acquired Activison Blizzard, Microsoft has become the third-largest gaming company in the world by revenue.

Parvini gave background on the company Microsoft just bought. 

“[Activision was] founded originally in 1979 in Sunnyvale, launched after some developers left Atari over disputes and issues of recognition for their work. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, you have this business that began in a humble way starting to propel itself to the top of the gaming world, purchasing other companies and making a home in Santa Monica,” she said.  

Eventually, Activision acquired Irvine-based Blizzard, merging the two companies and making them major players in the gaming industry.

Parvini explained why Activision’s ownership of games like Candy Crush made them an appealing purchase for Microsoft. 

“When you have a big company like Activision that has a big game like this, if you were Microsoft and perhaps you want to really get into the mobile gaming sphere, especially as it is the fastest growing segment of the gaming industry, I would imagine that acquiring Candy Crush among many, many other titles that Activision has doesn’t sound too bad,” she said.

Microsoft’s acquisition was investigated by several countries.

Parvini said there was concern over competition in the industry, and the FTC is still against the deal. On the labor side, Parvini said Microsoft has taken a neutral stance on unionization. 

“Folks who are trying to unionize or organize at Activision Blizzard may be able to do so with less, I would say opposition, perhaps from the leadership of the company. Microsoft has entered into a neutrality agreement with the CWA and said that it won’t oppose [unionization],” Parvini said. 

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