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FTC moves to block Microsoft's Activision acquisition

Accepted submission by Thexalon at 2022-12-08 20:04:00 from the not-blizzard-anymore dept.
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The Federal Trade Commission has announced that it intends to sue to block Microsoft from acquiring Activision [ftc.gov]. Regulators are making the argument that Microsoft is doing this to use its control of game catalogs to make more and more games exclusive to the XBox in an effort to gain market share from its competitors, which is a violation of anti-trust law.


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