Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has revealed that his company nearly made a move to buy Time Warner and turn its franchises into video games. This was years ago, in 2018, when AT&T was attempting to buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion.
While the deal was held up in legal proceedings, Kotick told Variety that Activision Blizzard raised “all the capital” and was in a place to make a bid if things fell apart with AT&T.
“We’d take their IP and turn it into games. They’d take our IP and turn it into film and television, and we’d have an extraordinary company,” he said.