Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Takeover
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Since Microsoft announced its bid to buy Activision Blizzard last year, regulators around the world sounded the alarm that the merger would suppress competition in the industry.
Now that the deal has officially gone through, should gamers be worried?
Guest: Jason Schreier, covering the video game industry for Bloomberg
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| 0:00.0 | What happens now? How will I cope? How will I cope? |
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| 0:37.0 | I hear something maybe. Oh, that was me. I ran to three just to cover him off, make sure. |
| 0:43.5 | Like he was back. |
| 0:44.4 | What you're listening to is a little bit of call of duty. |
| 0:47.5 | In this case, call of duty modern warfare too from last year. |
| 0:51.7 | I'm pushing, I'm pushing, I'm pushing. |
| 0:54.0 | Another one. |
| 0:55.0 | That's like flanking. |
| 0:57.0 | I want the ticket double kill out of my life. |
| 1:00.0 | Some guy behind the hill case of somebody, |
| 1:02.8 | he's still back there. |
| 1:04.4 | It's a first person game, which means |
| 1:06.2 | that the camera is through your character's eyes, |
| 1:08.6 | so it's as if you are kind of looking out |
| 1:11.2 | onto the battlefield and seeing whatever your fictional |
| 1:13.8 | character plays. That's Jason Schreier who covers the gaming industry for |
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