Kotaku | 12.06.2026 20:42
Microsoft closed its $70 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard near the end of 2023. Months later, Sea of Thieves and other Xbox exclusives were headed to PlayStation 5. The multiplatform shift was inextricably linked to the Halo maker’s massive overnight expansion into one of the biggest third-party publishers around. Now, as new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma signals more pain ahead as part of the platform’s latest “reset,” it’s impossible not to look at the outsized role Call of Duty might be playing in the calculus around upcoming mass layoffs.
