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EA Rejected Major Activision Blizzard Games Like Call of Duty Years Ago
According to Bing Gordon, former CCO of Electronic Arts, during a conversation on the Grit podcast, EA once decided not to purchase several major games from Activision Blizzard, including Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, and World of Warcraft. Gordon stated: “EA saw them all first and passed on all of…
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Diablo 4 Charges $30 To Change Portal Colours
The gaming industry at the moment is pretty terrible, there’s little passion and too heavy a focus on making a profit leading to unfinished games, live service rubbish, micro-transactions and battle passes, all designed to just get every last penny from you. But hey that’s how the world works and…
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UK’s CMA Finally Officially Gives Microsoft’s Activision Acquisition The Go Ahead
Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Acquisition has been long in the running and almost seemed like it would never end mostly due to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) being the only opposing party to the deal. Today the CMA has finally given the go-ahead for this deal meaning we can…
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Microsoft Strikes New Deal With UK CMA To Gain Go Ahead For Activision Acquisition
Today the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has revealed that a new deal proposed by Microsoft should resolve the concerns that were initially raised surrounding the deal. Microsoft Acquisition To Soon Be Cleared The CMA has shared on the gov.uk website that a new deal proposed by Microsoft should…
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Microsoft & Activision Blizzard Offer a New Deal With Ubisoft To Appease The UK’s CMA
Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard is still ongoing with the final hurdle being the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority which previously rejected the deal on concerns around competition in the Cloud Gaming space. Microsoft has now announced a new plan to hopefully appease the CMA which involves a deal with…
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Activision Blizzard Makes More Profit on PC Than Consoles
Over the past few years, I’d been under the impression that the consoles made more profit for game developers than PC did, mostly down to how poor some PC ports have been as well as GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2’s later PC releases. As it turns out, that…
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Deadline For Microsoft, Activision Blizzard Merger To Be Postponed
Following Microsoft’s Success with the FTC over its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, there was only one hurdle left in the form of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority. Unfortunately for the two, appealing against the CMA has required the July 18th deadline to be officially pushed back to October 18th.…
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Microsoft Wins In FTC Case Over Activision Blizzard Acquisition
Microsoft has won its court case against the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) allowing for the company to acquire Activision Blizzard also leading UK negotiations to restart after the initial rejection. Microsoft Activision Takeover Clear In The US As shared by Eurogamer, the FTC has cleared the path for Microsoft…
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Activision Blizzard Fires WoW Designer Over Character Lines Indirectly Mocking The Company
Eric Covington, a game designer at Activision Blizzard has revealed that after 9 years at the company, he has been let go over lines for a character that made fun of corporate greed. Activision Blizzard Game Designer Fired Covington had recently wrote some jokes for the lines of a loot…
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Activision Blizzard Has Been Fined A Pathetic $5k For Diablo Immortal Lootboxes
Activision Blizzard has just been fined a pathetic $5,000 for not disclosing the presence of loot boxes in Diablo Immortal. Diablo Immortal $5k Fine News shared via Eurogamer has revealed that PEGI’s Enforcement Committee has decided to fine Activision Blizzard and Plaion for violating the rules described in the PEGI…
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European Commission Has Approved Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard
The European Union has approved Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard. European Union Commission Approves Microsoft Activision Deal As it turns out the EU has decided to go against what the UK CMA thinks and the Microsoft Activision deal has been approved by the regulator. The fact that the EU has…
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UK Regulator Outlines Restrictions Against Microsoft And Activision Blizzard
Last month the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) blocked the Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard and now the regulator has published new restrictions on the two companies “acquiring an interest” in each other. New Restrictions on Microsoft, Activision Blizzard Deal The regulator published an interim order (via gamesindustry.biz) which…
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Microsoft To Hire Top Lawyer To Take on The UK’s Competition WatchDog
Microsoft has hired a top lawyer who has previously repeatedly defeated the EU to attempt to get the UK to change their mind on blocking the Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Microsoft Hiring Top Lawyer To Appeal UK Competition Watchdog Last month the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority blocked Microsoft’s…
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Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Takeover Blocked in The UK
Microsoft’s proposed takeover of Activision Blizzard has seen scrutiny for a long time now but today it has finally received a verdict from the UK’s Competition and Markets authority. Activision Blizzard Takeover Blocked In The UK The proposed takeover which would see Microsoft acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7bn (£55bn) has…
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Activision Blizzard Sued Over eSports Salaries
Activision Blizzard has been sued by the US government over the salaries of their esports players citing a violation of antitrust laws. Department of Justice Sues Activision Blizzard In a report from gamesindustry.biz it has been revealed that the US Department of Justice has filed a civil suit against Activision…
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