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 ...

Big news for gamers: the FTC just lost its appeal against Microsoft’s huge $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. This means the deal, finalized in October 2023, is now set in stone.

A year and a half after Microsoft's colossal $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard for Xbox closed, a U.S. court has struck down an appeal from the FTC to challenge the deal.

The Ninth Circuit denied the FTC’s emergency motion for an injunction on July 14, 2023 and Microsoft officially completed the merger with Activision in October 13, 2023. See Fed. Trade Comm’n v.

FTC drops antitrust case against Microsoft’s $69bn Activision deal Despite Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard closing in 2023, the FTC has continued to put pressure on the deal. However, ...

Welp, after what felt like a year-long legal soap opera, the FTC has officially dropped its case against Microsoft’s mega acquisition of Activision Blizzard. That’s right—the $68.7 billion ...

The FTC have themselves ended their action vs. the Microsoft Activision deal. The FTC revealed plans to investigate the deal shortly after Microsoft announced it in 2022.

TL;DR: The FTC has postponed the evidentiary hearing in its ongoing administrative case challenging Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard to July 21, 2025.

FTC abandons Biden-era effort to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard The logo for Microsoft, and a scene from Activision "Call of Duty - Modern Warfare," are shown in this photo ...

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 ...

Earlier Thursday, the FTC said it was dismissing a lawsuit against PepsiCo that was filed by the Democratic-controlled FTC in January. Microsoft announced a $69 billion acquisition of Activision ...