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What's next? Three websites?!

If you thought suing one website wasn't enough, what if I were to bring you a report of someone that is deciding to sue two websites? I bet that's starting to get your motor running, eh?

Courthouse News says that former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is suing G/O Media. Specifically, Kotick is singling out Kotaku and Gizmodo. In stories published by these outlets about Kotick's potential interest in purchasing TikTok, both outlets...

The beaches just got that much more crowded.

Microsoft is now laying off another 650 employees from its various Xbox gaming studios. These come roughly eight months after Microsoft laid off 1,900 employees across various Xbox and Activision studios.

Today's layoffs were announced by an internal memo sent from Xbox head Phil Spencer to employees. The only positive side to all of this, if there is one to be had, is the fact that Spencer makes it clear that there will be...

And lo there was much rejoicing.

Bobby Kotick, the CEO of Activision Blizzard for the past 32 years, is officially stepping down from the company. His departure is just a part of the shuffling and reorganization happening following Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

Kotick sent out a note to employees and the public this week wherein he reflected on his past three decades at Activision. He was in charge of Activision through the ups and the many, many downs....

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that they will more forward with an administrative case against Microsoft's $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard. This plan was announced by the FTC (PDF) themselves on September 26, 2023. The good news here is that the FTC's tomfoolery cannot prevent Microsoft from closing the deal before the deadline of October 18, 2023.

The FTC's decision to continue wasting taxpayer money on a battle they've already lost, comes after FTC was...

SAG-AFTRA members voted almost unanimously in favor of strike authorization.

On September 25, members of SAG-AFTRA voted to approve strike authorization for video game performers. The authorization was approved with 98.32% voting in favor of strike approval. In total, 34,687 members cast ballots, though this represents just 27.47% of all eligible voters.

Voting to approve a strike does not necessarily mean there is a strike. It simply opens the door wide open for video...

The CMA says they have "limited residual concerns" over the new deal.

In April 2023, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) blocked Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Their major hang-up were over concerns about cloud gaming of all things. Since then, the acquisition deal was approved by the European Commission and even the Federal Trade Commission (much to their chagrin).

With the only roadblock remaining being the CMA's approval, it looks...

This is the acquisition that never ends. Yes it goes on and on, my friend.

As reported on several times last week, the only remaining hurdle standing in the way of Microsoft closing the deal on their Activision Blizzard acquisition was the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Microsoft and the CMA got together on Monday, July 17th as planned to try to either finalize a deal that would satisfy the CMA.

After a few hours of talks today, both sides agreed that Microsoft...

Microsoft is now (almost) free to close the Activision Blizzard deal after 11:59PM (PT) today.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just denied the Federal Trade Commission's request to issue an emergency stay to extend a temporary restraining order. The current restraining order ends July 14, 2023 at 11:59PM (PT). This failure to get that temporary extension means that Microsoft, if they wanted to, could close the deal with Activision Blizzard tonight.

The FTC made the...

FTC commissioner Lina Khan about to put rack up another loss.

Surprising many, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has actually decided to appeal a recent US federal court order that went in Microsoft's favor on July 11. That initial ruling, handed down by Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley, opened the doors for Microsoft to go ahead with their acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

As part of Tuesday's ruling, Judge Corley said, "the Court finds the FTC has not shown a likelihood...

The FTC's request for an injunction has been denied by a California judge.

A judge in California is allowing Microsoft to proceed in closing its deal to acquire Activision Blizzard. After nearly a week of testimony from both sides, Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley denied the FTC's request for a preliminary injunction.

Judge Corley issued the following statement as part of their ruling. ...

Everything you have done, earned, purchased, or unlocked will cease to be.

On September 21, 2023, Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera will be taken offline for good. All gameplay, progress, purchased items, inventories, and online services will go away on that day. This has been announced by Activision Blizzard via a blog post that went up earlier today.

Activision Blizzard says that they made this decision in order to "focus on future Call of Duty content including the...

Xbox is well behind the competition from Sony and Nintendo.

Microsoft has flat-out admitted that they have long lost the console wars. This remarkable but unsurprising admission came in its proposed findings of fact that Microsoft submitted on the first day of its court battle with the FTC. Special thanks to IGN for sharing this information.

This week's court battle came after the FTC filed a preliminary injunction to halt Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of Activision...