Activision Blizzard had a plan — or ploy — to launch its own Android game store

/ Court documents show the gaming giant wanted more from mobile.

By Sean Hollister, a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget.

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge

Until today, we’d never heard of “Project Boston”. It was Activision Blizzard King’s big plan to earn more money from its mobile games by changing its relationship with Google. And if things had gone differently, it would have given Activision Blizzard its own app store on Android.

In late 2019, according to internal emails and documents I saw today in the courtroom

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