It has been exactly one year since Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard King in the record-breaking $75 billion merger. However, in the year since the deal went though, we haven't seen many of Activision's games added to Xbox Game Pass.
As reported in Eurogamer's thorough breakdown of the last 12 months, the only games added thus far are Diablo 4 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (unless you count Overwatch 2, but that's free-to-play anyway).
As Dempsey would say, REJUICED.
Black Ops 6 launches later this month, which will mark the third Activision game to arrive on the platform, but that still leaves a startling lack of classic, backwards compatible games absent on the subscription service. Especially industry titans like the original Call of Duty games, of which zero have been added.
In 2022, Xbox said that a pre-existing "agreement between Activision Blizzard and Sony includes restrictions on the ability of Activision Blizzard to place Call of Duty titles on Game Pass for a number of years". Phil Spencer later stated that he spoke to Sony leadership, confirming that Xbox would "honor all existing agreements" following the acquisition.
This came to light after the CMA voiced...
