A U.S. judge granted the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) request for a temporary block on Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard late on Tuesday. The FTC filed the request for a restraining ...

"Watching them fade from their roles as dominant publishers and powerhouse training grounds hits harder than I expected" ...

Pam's Colecovision was her babysitter, from the age of 4 or 5, but the family only had one game. Over and over, hour after hour, she'd climb and jump through the three levels of Donkey Kong. But the ...

On May 22, 2025, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) withdrew its administrative case opposing Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The decision ...

TL;DR: The FTC has officially dismissed its antitrust case against Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, ending legal challenges to the largest video game merger in history.

This video breaks down Microsoft’s long history of antitrust lawsuits and how the Activision acquisition mirrors the same ...

The Republican-controlled Federal Trade Commission is abandoning a Biden-era effort to block Microsoft’s purchase of “Call of Duty” video game maker Activision Blizzard. The end of the lunch bowl era ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission dropped a case that sought to block Microsoft's $69 billion purchase of "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard, saying on Thursday that pursuing the ...

A visitor plays the game 'Call of Duty' of Activision on a mobile phone at the Samsung mobile booth at the Gamescom video game fair in Cologne on August 24, 2022. According to the organisers, around 1 ...

TL;DR: The FTC has postponed the evidentiary hearing in its ongoing administrative case challenging Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard to July 21, 2025. This delay allows all ...

Microsoft completed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard in October 2023, however, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) would file an appeal in December 2023 in an attempt to overturn the court's ...