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Big deals.
Many mature industries trend toward consolidation as time goes on, and the video game business is no different. Big companies are bought and sold for massive sums of money.
But what are the biggest of the big buyouts? Here in this post, we’re rounding up the top 11 most expensive video game acquisitions of all time, a list that’s topped by Microsoft’s gargantuan $75.4 billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard in what is far and away the biggest gaming deal in history. It’s also one of the biggest acquisitions–across all markets from oil and energy to technology. Coming in second was the surprise-announcement of EA selling itself to an investor consortium for $55 billion.
Microsoft actually makes the list three times, the most of any single company, spending more than $80 billion on video game buyouts since 2014. Another trend on this list is Saudi Arabia. The country’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) owns Savvy Games, which paid $4.9 billion to buy Scopely. Then, in 2025, Scopely paid $3.5 billion to buy Pokemon Go. Also in 2025, PIF was part of the above-mentioned investor consortium that bought EA.
