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Activision’s Poster-In-Chief Gives Wild Look Inside Microsoft Sony Fight
3Over a year after it was first announced, Microsoft’s $US69 billion (AU$103 billion) Activision Blizzard deal is being picked apart under a microscope by regulators. It still appears to be crawling towards its inexorable conclusion, but things are getting very messy, and incredibly silly, in the process.
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Bobby Kotick Is Stoking Chinese Fear To Champion The Microsoft Acquisition
In order to ease UK regulators’ reluctance to approve the Microsoft acquisition, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick went on CNBC to make a case for the merger. His comments about the UK becoming “Death Valley” if the merger was not approved have earned him well-deserved ridicule. But maybe we should all be a little sceptical…
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Diablo Immortal Is Getting More Expensive For Hoarders
Diablo Immortal, Blizzard’s free-to-play mobile dungeon crawler, has garnered accusations of being a greedy, money-sucking ARPG ever since launch. You’d think the company would want to avoid worsening that perception, but here we are with Blizzard announcing that the long-requested increase to players’ stash sizes is finally coming…but at a cost that few will be…
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Activision Blizzard Exec Has The Most Unhinged Last Of Us TV Show Take Yet
The Last of Us inspired no shortage of takes when it first released back in 2013. The HBO TV adaptation has been no different. Like a massive EpiPen of stimulus for the take economy in middle of winter, it has elicited both over-the-top praise, scornful dismissals, and everything in-between. But what is potentially the worst…