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Xbox has announced that it has acquired famed video game publisher Bethesda Softworks and its parent company ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion. Bethesda is best known as the studio behind The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, and the upcoming space RPG Starfield. The studios acquired under the deal include Bethesda Softworks, Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, ZeniMax Online Studios, Arkane, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios. “Bethesda’s games have always had a special place on Xbox and in the hearts of millions of gamers around the world. Our teams have a close and storied history working together,…