The instant we now have all been looking forward to has arrived: the decision is in for Microsoft vs. FTC, and Staff Xbox has gained! We spend all of the display discussing the large implications of the ruling, which turns out to have set the level for Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision-Snow fall to in the end undergo. We communicate concerning the video games we would possibly see out of it – in particular from Raven Instrument – the very critical subject of ways Xbox boss Phil Spencer will have to take steps to scrub up the poisonous administrative center tradition at ABK, whether or not or no longer Microsoft (and Sony) are achieved making large acquisitions, and extra!
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Ryan McCaffrey is IGN’s government editor of previews and host of each IGN’s weekly Xbox display, Podcast Unlocked, in addition to our per thirty days(-ish) interview display, IGN Unfiltered. He is a North Jersey man, so it is “Taylor ham,” no longer “beef roll.” Debate it with him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan.