Microsoft's immodest appetites: the US corporation has been considering acquiring more than a hundred gaming companies, including CD Projekt RED, Remedy, FromSoftware, Sega and Bloober Team

The lawsuit between the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Microsoft has brought a lot of interesting information to light.

Information continues to emerge, and this time the companies that the US corporation was considering for acquisition have been revealed.

Here's What We Know

Even before the announcement of the merger with Activision Blizzard, Microsoft has made a list of companies it is interested in a potential acquisition, and among them were very interesting developers.

For example, the Redmond giant has long looked at Sega, because the Japanese have the rights to many popular franchises such as Sonic, Persona, Yakuza and Total War.

A number of Polish studios were also part of the US corporation's area of interest. An internal document mentions Techland, People Can Fly, 11-Bit Studios, Bloober Team, and, of course, CD Projekt RED - the creator of mega-popular The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077.

Microsoft didn't mind buying companies like IO Interactive (Hitman), Gearbox Software (Borderlands) and even FromSoftware as well.

An internal document with a list of over a hundred developers, which appears in court, was drawn up in 2020. So far it is reported that Microsoft's appetite has been reduced and there are only 17 companies on the current list, which definitely includes Remedy Entertainment, Crytek, IO Interactive and People Can Fly.

Most likely, until the story of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard merger comes to a logical conclusion, the video game industry will not hear about new acquisitions of the American corporation.

Source: The Verge