The American company wants to buy the Activision Blizzard studio for almost 69 billion dollars, but the transaction is currently being analyzed.
Brussels announced on Tuesday, November 8, to open an in-depth investigation into the proposed acquisition of the American video game publisher Activision Blizzard by Microsoft, judging that this operation of 69,000 million dollars could “significantly reduce” competition in this market.
The European Commission explained that it feared in particular that Microsoft could “block access to Activision Blizzard’s video games for consoles and PCs” after this acquisition, and that it would be tempted to implement “strategies to evict competing video game distributors to consoles”. .
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