UK launches antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s $69B proposed Activision...
One more hurdle up ahead for Activision Blizzard, the games giant behind Call of Duty that Microsoft is looking to acquire for $68.7 billion. The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority has announced...
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Blizzard QA testers in Albany want to unionize
Activision Blizzard’s Raven Software QA testers formed the gaming giant’s first formally recognized union in May, but that momentum hasn’t died down at the massive company. Today, Blizzard QA testers...
View ArticleUK dials up scrutiny of Microsoft’s $68.7BN Activision deal over antitrust...
Microsoft’s $68.7 billion all-cash deal to bag gaming giant Activision Blizzard faces closer antitrust scrutiny in the U.K. where the country’s market watchdog has just announced it will move to an...
View ArticleGame on for UK’s deeper antitrust probe of Microsoft-Activision
The U.K.’s competition watchdog has confirmed it will move to an in-depth investigation of the Microsoft-Activision $68.7 billion gaming mega-deal, a couple of weeks after it signalled concerns about...
View ArticleWatch Activision unveil the next generation of Call of Duty right here
Call of Duty is one of the biggest franchises in the world of gaming, and we’re just a few short weeks from the debut of the next title. Welcome to the era of Modern Warfare II. Today at CoD Next,...
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Daily Crunch: Adobe snaps up Figma in proposed $20B deal that has some...
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View ArticleThe FTC is suing to block Microsoft from buying Activision
The FTC announced Thursday that it would sue to block Microsoft’s acquisition of gaming giant Activision Blizzard. Microsoft announced plans to buy the company, which has been plagued by sexual...
View ArticleUK regulator says Microsoft’s proposed $68.7B Activision merger could create...
Seven months after the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) confirmed it was launching an antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s $68.7 billion bid for video game giant Activision Blizzard,...
View ArticleHackers steal Activision games and employee data
Unknown hackers stole internal data from the games giant Activision. On Sunday, the cybersecurity and malware research group vx-underground published screenshots of data purportedly stolen from...
View ArticleActivision did not notify employees of data breach for months
On December 4, hackers successfully phished an employee at the games giant Activision, gaining access to some internal employee and game data. This data breach was not disclosed until last weekend,...
View ArticleGamers are fixing a video game ‘taken over’ by hackers
A popular first-person shooter game has significant vulnerabilities that allow malicious hackers to take over other players’ computers, as long as they are in the same online match. The situation is so...
View ArticleUK blocks Microsoft’s planned $68.7B Activision bid, saying it would...
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has confirmed that it intends to block Microsoft’s megabucks Activision acquisition, concluding that such a merger would create “…the most powerful...
View ArticleEurope greenlights Microsoft’s $68.7B Activision acquisition
The European Commission (EC) has given the go-ahead to Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion bid for gaming giant Activision. The news comes a few weeks after the U.K. emerged as the first jurisdiction to...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Activision Blizzard merger can’t be blocked by FTC, judge rules
Microsoft and Activision Blizzard earned a big win in court today, as a federal judge ruled that the Federal Trade Commission cannot block the $68.7 billion merger. The FTC sued Microsoft in December...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Sony sign deal to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation consoles
Microsoft and Sony signed an agreement to keep Call of Duty games on PlayStation consoles. As a reminder, Microsoft offered to acquire Activision Blizzard for $69 billion. And yet, 18 months after the...
View ArticleHackers are infecting Call of Duty players with a self-spreading malware
Hackers are infecting players of an old Call of Duty game with a worm that spreads automatically in online lobbies, according to two analyses of the malware. On June 26, a user on a Steam forum alerted...
View ArticleCall of Duty worm malware used to hack players exploits years-old bug
For around a month, hackers have been infecting players of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 with a self-spreading malware, also known as a worm. To do that, the hackers are exploiting a bug that was...
View ArticleIt’s official: Microsoft closes $68.7B Activision Blizzard acquisition as UK...
After a prolonged antitrust tussle, Microsoft’s near-two-year attempt to buy gaming giant Activision is finally happening, after the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) accepted a...
View ArticleWhy Microsoft had to relinquish Activision’s cloud-gaming rights outside Europe
Microsoft has finally done it — nearly two years after the Xbox-maker first revealed plans to acquire gaming giant Activision Blizzard in a mammoth $68.7 billion deal, it has managed to secure U.K....
View ArticleActivision investigating password-stealing malware targeting game players
Video game giant Activision is investigating a hacking campaign that’s targeting players with the goal of stealing their credentials, TechCrunch has learned. At this point, the hackers’ specific goals...
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