Activision Blizzard is one of the largest video game companies in the world. It's the home of Call of Duty, Skylanders, Hearthstone, Diablo, StarCraft, Warcraft, Overwatch and countless more hit titles. Just earlier this week the company announced it was buying King Digital Entertainment, makers of Candy Crush, for $5.9 billion. To put that craziness into perspective, that's $1.9 billion more than Disney paid to buy Lucasfilm and Star Wars.

To put it mildly, video games are a big, big business and Activision Blizzard is a big, big deal. The company has conquered the living room market, and it now wants to conquer movie screens, too. It's just announced the creation of Activision Blizzard Studios, a new division within the company that will exist solely to create adaptations of its games. The company has even hired Nick van Dyk, a former senior vice president at Disney, to run the show.

The Warcraft movie, which just released its first trailer (watch it below), existed before the creation of Activision Blizzard Studios, so it's not a part of this new division. The first adaptation under this banner will actually be an animated TV show based on Skylanders, but on the big-screen front the Activision Blizzard folks have apparently made Call of Duty their top priority, with the press release referring to it as "the development of a robust cinematic universe."

There is no talent attached to Call of Duty or any of their other potential movies at this point, but that's normal. Creating this studio is just the first step. It's exactly what Ubisoft did four years ago, which is what made next year's Assassin's Creed movie starring Michael Fassbender possible. Similarly, Nintendo recently announced its own plans to dedicate a division to getting movies made. Basically, all of the major game companies know that video game movies are the next big thing in Hollywood, so they're getting ahead of the curve and trying to develop the properties themselves.

If we're following a similar timeline as Ubisoft's journey into Hollywood, it'll be a few years before these movies come to fruition, but with a big move like this, you can count on it happening.