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This is Recode Media of Peter Kafka, and that is me, and today I'm coming to a few days earlier than normal

because I want to talk about some newsy stuff. That's Microsoft's attempt to buy Activision,

the gaming giant for some $70 billion. And the news part is that the FTC and the Biden administration

are trying to stop that deal via a lawsuit. Big, big high stakes big tech MNA. To help us understand all of that and the broader gaming business as well is Jason Schreier

from Bloomberg, who is really good, really sharp.

You are going to enjoy this conversation.

But first, a reminder, soon we're going to run our first ever mailbag edition of this podcast. That means now is your chance to send me questions about anything you pick. You're smart. You'll figure it out. You can send an email to me at peteratrecote.net or you can at me on Twitter. We will take it from there. We've got a ton of good questions already. You can always add more. You've got a little bit of time left. Okay. Here's me and Jason

Schreier. I'm here with Jason Schreier. It covers video games for Bloomberg. In his spare time,

he also writes books about the video game industry. And in his other spare time, he also hosts

Triple Click a podcast about video games. Welcome, Jason. Hello, Peter. Thank you so much for having me. Thanks for joining me. I play video games from jason hello beater thank you so much for having me thanks for

joining me i play video games from time to time um what video games do you play i play fortnight

okay that's that's like nothing to be ashamed of that's great game i'm a grown man uh it's for

everybody and i'm a grown man who went from from my phone then to my kids's switch, and now to the Xbox. Once the court case. I actually, I just met, the people across the street from me, new neighbors just moved in, met the guy I was chatting, told him what I do for a living. And he was like, oh, I'm not much of a gamer, but I have played 100 hours playing Zelda. It's like fantastic. Everyone's a gamer.

Yeah.

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