The European Commission Will Investigate The 68.7 Billion Microsoft Activision Merger
Microsoft’s big push for this deal is a direct play on the competition with gaming industry giants Tencent and Sony. The latter has publicly stated that this could affect fair competition in the market, particularly when it comes to Activision Blizzard’s flagship games such as Overwatch and Call of Duty – as the company behind XBox and Gamepass, Microsoft would technically be in a privileged position to make games like Call of Duty exclusive to their own platforms and consoles, in addition to direct control of the titles....