Microsoft in a long time, leading to major acquisitions in 2018, and even New York and the UK were renamed from the previous two years. Those studios like Ninja Theory of Hellblade, the renoming Compulsion Games, the we happy few and Xbox Game studios. Microsoft continued this hard streak with the acquisition of Double Fine in 2019, followed by one of the biggest acquisitions in the industry. Microsoft bought ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, for a total of $7.75 billion. ZeniMaxs own studios with the likes of Bethesda Softworks, known for its work on RPGs such as Skyrim and Fallout. There's also Arkane, who recently shipped Deathloop to great commercial acclaim. The company's large Xbox Game studios include Tango Gameworks, id Software and MachineGames.