Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick says EA wanted to acquire & merge with Activision
"They tried to buy us a bunch of times, we had merger conversations a bunch of times."
He also says EA passed on buying Call of Duty and Guitar Hero before Activision fully owned the IPs
GTA 6 is mostly targeting a November launch, as Borderlands 4 is confirmed to release on September 23rd, and Take-Two, the publisher of both games previously said they won’t release them close to each other.