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. In an order issued ...

It’s finally final, and today the FTC fully drops its long-lost case against Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard King ... case against Microsoft’s ABK deal appeared first on ...

Activision Blizzard Overwatchs' collaboration with Street ... 6 skin and showed the Overwatch crew competing on Hanaoka and King's Row. It pays homage to Street Fighter's flashy fighting-game ...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a legal challenge by the Federal Trade Commission to Microsoft's $69 billion purchase of "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard. The San Francisco ...

The Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court's ruling that Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard did not violate antitrust laws. The Federal Trade Commission had sued to ...

The Activision Blizzard transaction marked the largest-ever acquisition in the video gaming market. The deal closed in late 2023 after competition authorities in the UK approved it. The purchase ...

A hot potato: Bobby Kotick, the former Activision Blizzard CEO who gamers crowned the most hated figure in the industry, has given a lengthy interview that's unlikely to improve his public image.

You can read our interview on how the CWA helps developers unionise. In addition to the CWA's comment to RPS, the ABK Worker's Alliance - a union made up of Activision Blizzard King employees - has ...

Kotick will not be replaced by someone else. Instead, the responsibilities of overseeing Activision Blizzard King will fall to Matt Booty, the game content and studios president at Microsoft.

Video game giant Activision Blizzard will start laying off employees at its Irvine and Santa Monica locations next month as parent company Microsoft Corp. looks to cut costs in its gaming division.

It paints a picture of one boss (Activision’s Bobby Kotick) who cared most about the profits, and one boss who cared most about the games (Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime), and surprise, their ...