this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
21 points (92.0% liked)

Games

31820 readers
992 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

FTC v. Microsoft is over, and the judge has decided to deny the FTC’s preliminary injunction request.

top 3 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

European regulators gave the deal the go-ahead in May, so Microsoft could now technically close without the UK and without an injunction in the US preventing it. That’s a complicated scenario though, so we’ll likely see Microsoft and Activision Blizzard temporarily extend their merger agreement to cover the CMA appeal process instead

It’s not clear to me what “without the UK” means?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would have meant that the companies operate separately inside the UK, but even that now appears to be settled: https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1678791895449841665

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Does it? That tweet sounds like both Microsoft & Activision and the CMA have agreed to pursue an appeal ASAP, not that Microsoft/Activision have the go ahead from the UK?