As a result, both Microsoft and Activision Blizzard appealed the decision. Attention shifted to the US on July 11th with an important win for Microsoft and Activision Blizzard when a court denied the FTC’s request for a restraining order it had filed to prevent the deal from passing. This e...
Microsoft unveil its $68.7 billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard in January 2022. The FTC was so concerned that it delayed the deal and fought in the courts. Microsoft won and closed the deal after 21 months of waiting. In that time, the game market shifted, and Microsoft was stuck wait...
The Battle.net app is a must-have for gamers especially those who enjoyBlizzard games. You’ll be able to get all your treasured games in one place making the installation phase go a lot smoother. Even better, once you’re logged in, any game updates will be downloaded automatically saving...
It’s our hope that this change will have significant effect against the Real Money Trade that is fueling multiple negative impactful behaviors in Classic Era and Seasonal, but we’re watching it closely. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we work to make World ...
For those who continue to buy and play on consoles, those machines will be like a Ferrari: expensive but fun to have. Your phone will be the Honda Civic of gaming: affordable, reliable, easy to maintain and capable of pretty much whatever you need. ...
Now Microsoft has stated its intention to buy Activision Blizzard outright, based partly on the depressed stock price resulting from investigations. It has been a tumultuous decade for the studio that made Diablo 3, even as the game itself has improved greatly from its release. Now...
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Alongside layoffs, Mike Ybarra, the Activision Blizzard president for the last two decades has left, and the production of its brand-new survival game Odyssey has been halted. Much of this is standard behavior after M&A, and isn’t seen to be connected to the broader picture of tech layoffs...
Still, some outages can result in homes and businesses being in the dark for hours. How much trouble it causes you depends on how much of your life is tied to the internet and online services. Possible impacts of power loss At home, a disruption in the power supply used to mean ...
ZLoader has used various persistence methods across separate campaigns. The first method observed by Microsoft Security Researchers involves the ZLoader DLL using rundll32.exe to register itself. In other documented cases, it also creates the following persistence mechanisms...