The deal follows two other major acquisitions in the game market by Microsoft and Take-Two Interactive.
Sony Interactive Entertainment said on Monday that it had agreed to acquire the video game maker Bungie in a deal valued at $3.6 billion, as the game market further consolidates around some of its biggest companies. This month, Microsoft announced a $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and Take Two Interactive reached an agreement on an $11 billion purchase of Zynga. Sony Interactive Entertainment, maker of the PlayStation game console and a major game developer in its own right, said Bungie, the original developer of the multiplayer shooter games Destiny and Halo, would operate independently and have free rein to publish games for other consoles and platforms.
