Spider-Man has been hugely successful for Activision, with Spider-Man 2 being the top selling movie-based game in the US for the 2004 calendar year.

The best Spider-Man games are guaranteed to deliver big action, a lot of laughs, and a little heartbreak. That's the price you pay when you take on the role of Peter Parker throughout the ...

Now that Microsoft has officially acquired Activision Blizzard, we can start looking forward to the future. Here are 3 reasons I'm excited for the future of Xbox.

It had to pass through the regulatory gauntlet for a number of different countries, including the US, UK and Europe, but Microsoft’s major acquisition of Activision Blizzard has now been finalized.

There have been rumours of Activision wanting to re-license the 2013 game, as well as Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 and 2 (but not apparently any of their Spider-Man games), but no actual evidence.

Microsoft and Activision have mutually agreed to extend their merger deadline by three months in the face of ongoing negotiations with the UK government that could allow the $69 billion ...