The observatory in Al Mazrah.
The observatory in Al Mazrah in Call of Duty: Warzone. Will this run on the Switch?
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Microsoft will take Call of Duty to Nintendo, pending approval of Activision Blizzard deal

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Microsoft has signed an agreement to take Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty franchise to Nintendo, the company announced today, pending the closing of its acquisition of the Call of Duty maker.

It’s a 10-year deal that means that Call of Duty will spread beyond the PC, PlayStation, and Xbox platforms to Nintendo, so long as federal regulators approve Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. And Microsoft said that the deal would keep Call of Duty on the PC on Steam for a decade as well.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.