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Activist CEO Codick: Microsoft Xbox can now remake Blizzard's classic games over the past 30 years.

Shulou Source: shulou.com Published: 2023-11-24 21:14:52 10月01日 Update

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Alejandro86 for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com October 14 news, according to CNBC, after Activision Blizzard acquisition deal ended, Activision CEO Codick was interviewed.

"We can take out the classic games that have been in the game library for the past 30 years and really reproduce them," Codick revealed in an interview. " Foreign media gamersextra analysis said that some people may ask "why Blizzard does not do it", the reason may be financial. As Xbox wants to make its first-party game, the lineup of games on Game Pass stronger, the possibility of Activision Blizzard's classic game remaking "coruscate the second Spring" has greatly increased.

CTOnews.com previously reported that Phil Spencer, head of Xbox games, revealed in November last year that after completing the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, he hoped to revive the classic RTS game StarCraft series, although he did not have the decision-making power.

Referring to Blizzard's "RTS legacy", he said: "StarCraft is a groundbreaking moment in games-from the perspective of e-sports, from the perspective of real-time strategies on the mainframe, from the perspective of real-time strategy storytelling for such games."

After Microsoft announced the formal acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Codick said that Spencer asked him to continue as CEO of ABK and reported to him that he had agreed to complete the task by the end of 2023, which means that Kodik will officially leave by the end of this year.

Codick became CEO of Activision Blizzard in February 1991. Between 1997 and 2003, Activision Blizzard acquired nine development studios and released its first hit game in 1995. In July 2008, he became CEO of Activision Blizzard as a result of the merger of Activision Blizzard and Vivendi Games.

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