Microsoft’s announcement that it’s going to purchase Activision Blizzard — the people behind Call of Duty and World of Warcraft — is the kind of story that drops like a bomb and leaves everyone sorting through the rubble, trying to understand what happens next as the dust settles.
The intended and unintended consequences of the purchase on Xbox Game Pass and everything else is almost impossible to consider all at once, as Waypoint spells out in its discussion of the proposed acquisition. It’s also not likely going to go unchallenged from a slowly sharpening U.S. Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission.
