{"id":163702,"date":"2022-12-21T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/video-gamers-sue-microsoft-over-69-billion-activision-deal\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T00:27:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T00:27:00","slug":"video-gamers-sue-microsoft-over-69-billion-activision-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/video-gamers-sue-microsoft-over-69-billion-activision-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Video gamers sue Microsoft over $69 billion Activision deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wedbush managing director Dan Ives discusses the FTC’s decision to block Microsoft’s purchase of Activision on ‘Varney & Co.’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Microsoft Corp’s planned $68.7 billion acquisition of “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard Inc. hit another hurdle Tuesday, when a group of gamers challenged the deal in court, claiming that the purchase will unlawfully squelch competition in the video game industry.<\/p>\n
The federal antitrust lawsuit, filed in San Francisco, comes less than two weeks after the Federal Trade Commission sued to block the merger between Activision Blizzard, one of the world’s top video game publishers, and Microsoft, the manufacturer of the Xbox console.<\/p>\n