Microsoft Wins Against FTC Injunction; Activision Acquisition To Go Ahead

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Microsoft Wins Against FTC Injunction; ActivisionBlizzard Acquisition To Go Ahead

latter’s request for an injunction against the former’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. With the ruling, the owners of the Windows OS will now be able to move forward with its original plans to purchase the video game studio and publisher forThe FTC originally requested that an injunction against the Microsoft acquisition of Activision be issued, for fear that said purchase of the company would lead to the company making certain titles exclusive to the PC and Xbox console in the future.

The presiding judge also rejected the FTC claim that the Microsoft decision to make the highly anticipated Starfield and not-so-wanted Redfall Xbox exclusives would pave the way for it to make the Call of Duty franchise an exclusive, saying that Microsoft had long been “making deals with video game companies you’ve never heard of. “Before the merger, there is no access to Activision’s content on cloud-streaming services,” the ruling states.

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