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...Activision Blizzard games are expected to be included in Game Pass next year, though Microsoft has not yet set out its plans after closing the deal in October....
...Microsoft-owned Blizzard Entertainment and China’s NetEase announced on Wednesday that they would bring back popular titles including World of Warcraft and Diablo to the world’s biggest gaming market after...
...Analysts estimate that NetEase, as the publisher of Blizzard games in China, made as much as 5 per cent of its total sales from Blizzard games before the partnership was terminated....
...This is an audio transcript of the Behind the Money podcast episode: ‘How Microsoft bagged Activision Blizzard’ [AUDIO CLIP FROM ‘CALL OF DUTY’ PLAYING] Michela Tindera In the video game Call of Duty,...
...The revised proposal includes selling Activision Blizzard’s cloud streaming rights to France-based rival Ubisoft. The CMA said it had “limited residual concerns” about the deal....
...The attack was detected on January 12, and Midnight Blizzard lost access to the accounts “on or about January 13”, Microsoft said....
...Now, the FT’s Richard Waters explains how Microsoft’s transformation pushed their $75bn acquisition of video game publisher Activision Blizzard over the line earlier this month....
...The attack was detected on January 12, and Midnight Blizzard lost access to the accounts “on or about January 13,” Microsoft said....
...The agency has also aggressively challenged large tech mergers and acquisitions, such as suing to block Microsoft’s $69bn acquisition of Activision Blizzard....
...Microsoft is among those cutting jobs, saying last month it would lay off around 1,900 staff, or about 8 per cent of its gaming workforce, including some at Activision Blizzard....
...The UK’s competition watchdog has extended the deadline for the $75bn Microsoft-Activision Blizzard combination by more than a month, after it received what it called a “detailed and complex submission from...
...Microsoft and Activision Blizzard have extended their $75bn merger agreement for three months, as they race to resolve regulatory concerns in the UK about its impact on the nascent market for cloud gaming...
...Four months after closing its $75bn Activision Blizzard deal, Microsoft also said the first title from the portfolio of the Call of Duty creator would start appearing on its Game Pass subscription service...
...Microsoft, which spent most of last year fighting the CMA over its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, noted that it was unusual for the agency to examine a deal involving recruitment rather than an outright...
...Docherty announced that Star Blizzard was the group assessed to be responsible for that operation....
...search for a compromise After the initial shock of Tuesday’s news that Microsoft and the UK’s antitrust watchdog are back at the negotiating table on the software giant’s $75bn takeover of Activision Blizzard...
...Microsoft and Activision Blizzard have pushed back the deadline for the completion of their $75bn merger agreement by three months, as the two companies seek to resolve UK regulatory concerns over the impact...
...Read more about the Activision Blizzard deal here....
...Marcus Hellyer, head of research at Strategic Analysis Australia, said the “blizzard of numbers” released by the defence department made clear that the Labor government would pay for the nuclear submarines...
...Please put “QUIZ” in the subject line of your email, so that it doesn’t get lost in the blizzard of legal threats, PR pitches and “just circling back” emails we get....
...(Dan Davies) — Years of ‘nog: How Italy’s eggnog war began (BBC) — A note from outgoing Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, two months after the completion of the company’s merger with Microsoft — “...
...The head of the UK’s competition watchdog has defended its decision to reject Microsoft’s planned $75bn takeover of gaming company Activision Blizzard after its European counterpart gave the green light...
...The US Federal Trade Commission has asked a federal court to stop Microsoft from closing its $75bn acquisition of Activision Blizzard, in a move that piles pressure on the gaming industry’s biggest deal....
...On Tuesday, a US federal judge rejected the Federal Trade Commission’s attempt to halt Microsoft’s $75bn takeover of Activision Blizzard, the developer behind the Call of Duty game....
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