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How Microsoft's Activision Blizzard takeover will drive metaverse gaming into the mass market

Written by Theo Tzanidis, Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing, University of the West of Scotland

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Microsoft was positioning itself as one of the pioneers of the metaverse even before its US$75 billion deal to buy online gaming giant Activision Blizzard. In the days after Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook last October as Meta with his near movie-length promotional film about the potential for virtual...

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