What Next TBD: Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Takeover

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🗓️ 21 October 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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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 If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
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0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We Will Liars. New series, watch now.
0:28.1	Only on Prime Video.
0:33.8	Okay.
0:35.1	I think I's probably coming around on us.
0:37.8	I hear something. Maybe four. Oh, that was me. I ran he's probably coming around on us. I hear something.
0:38.8	That was me.
0:39.7	I ran to three just to cover him off, make sure.
0:43.3	Like he was back.
0:44.0	What you're listening to is a little bit of call of duty.
0:47.2	In this case, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 from last year.
0:51.9	I'm pushing, I'm pushing.
	...

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