Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile Goes Live Ahead of Scheduled Launch; Day Zero Event Details Out

Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile Goes Live Ahead of Scheduled Launch; Day Zero Event Details Out

Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile was not scheduled to go live for a couple more hours at the time of writing this. However, many users reported that the battle royale game was available to download almost 12 hours ahead of its schedule. The information was also officially confirmed by the…

Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile Trailer Released Ahead of Global Launch on March 21: All You Need to Know

Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile Trailer Released Ahead of Global Launch on March 21: All You Need to Know

Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile will be launched globally next week. Ahead of the launch, Activision has shared a new trailer of the game that shows off the gameplay, visuals, and some of the locations in the game. After spending months in limited release, Activision will finally make the game…

Microsoft to Lay Off 1,900 Staff at Gaming Division, Including Recently Acquired Call of Duty Maker Activision

Microsoft to Lay Off 1,900 Staff at Gaming Division, Including Recently Acquired Call of Duty Maker Activision

Microsoft will let go of 1,900 employees at Activision Blizzard and Xbox this week, it said on Thursday, the latest cuts in the technology sector that has extended massive layoffs over the past years into 2024. The cuts represent about 8 percent of the overall Microsoft Gaming division and will…

Xbox Game Pass Will Not Include Activision Games Like Call of Duty Until 2024, Phil Spencer Explains Why

Xbox Game Pass Will Not Include Activision Games Like Call of Duty Until 2024, Phil Spencer Explains Why

Call of Duty and other Activision Blizzard games won’t appear on Xbox Game Pass until next year. On the Official Xbox Podcast, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer claimed that players wouldn’t be seeing a big drop of those titles immediately, due to the lengthy regulatory challenges the company faced in…

Microsoft-Activision Blizzard $69 Billion Deal Closes as UK CMA Gives Approval

Microsoft-Activision Blizzard $69 Billion Deal Closes as UK CMA Gives Approval

Xbox maker Microsoft closed its $69 billion (nearly Rs. 5,75,620 crore) deal for Activision Blizzard on Friday, swelling its heft in the video-gaming market with best-selling titles including Call of Duty to better compete with industry leader Sony. Originally unveiled in January 2022, the biggest deal in the gaming industry cleared its final big hurdle — an approval…

Microsoft-Activision Blizzard Deal Approval Again in Hands of UK’s CMA

Microsoft-Activision Blizzard Deal Approval Again in Hands of UK’s CMA

Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal is back in the hands of Britain’s antitrust regulator after an appeals court granted an adjournment, and the grounds for why the UK should reconsider its block on the US software giant’s takeover were published. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) set out on Friday Microsoft’s…

Activision Blizzard, Microsoft Extend $69 Billion Deal Deadline to October 18

Activision Blizzard, Microsoft Extend $69 Billion Deal Deadline to October 18

Activision Blizzard said on Wednesday it has extended the deadline for the close of its $69 billion (roughly Rs. 5,66,200 crore) takeover by Microsoft to October 18 as the companies work to secure approval from the United Kingdom’s antitrust authority. The “Call of Duty” publisher said the companies also agreed to…

Microsoft vs FTC: US Court Rejects FTC’s Request to Halt Takeover of Call of Duty Maker Activision Blizzard

Microsoft vs FTC: US Court Rejects FTC’s Request to Halt Takeover of Call of Duty Maker Activision Blizzard

A US federal court on Thursday rejected the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) request that it order Microsoft to temporarily hold off on closing its $69 billion (roughly Rs. 5,65,480 crore) purchase of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard, a court filing showed. A federal judge had previously ruled for Microsoft…

Microsoft-Activision Blizzard Restructured Deal Could Face Fresh Probe in UK

Microsoft-Activision Blizzard Restructured Deal Could Face Fresh Probe in UK

Britain’s competition regulator said on Wednesday a restructured deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard could satisfy its concerns, subject to a new investigation, a climbdown in its opposition to the biggest gaming deal in history.  The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) became the first regulator to block the $69 billion…

Microsoft’s $69 Billion Takeover of Call of Duty Maker Activision Gets US Green Light, UK’s CMA Softens Stance

Microsoft’s $69 Billion Takeover of Call of Duty Maker Activision Gets US Green Light, UK’s CMA Softens Stance

Microsoft cleared major hurdles to its plan to buy videogame maker Activision Blizzard on Tuesday, after a US judge gave a thumbs-up to the $69 billion (roughly Rs. 5,65,480 crore) deal and a British regulator suggested it could reconsider its opposition. Activision shares surged 10 percent on the day, as…