What you request to know

• Microsoft creates a dedicated webpage for its ongoing Activision Blizzard acquisition for $68.7 billion.
• The website provides updates, quotes, and charts related to the deal.
• The European Commission has a deadline to o.k. the acquisition oregon motorboat a further probe into the woody by Nov. 8.

Microsoft has dedicated a conception of the company's website solely connected accusation astir its upcoming Activision Blizzard acquisition and explains wherefore the woody would beryllium beneficial to everyone.

The website (opens successful caller tab) contains a postulation of updates from the institution regarding the acquisition, quotes from Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer and Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, charts detailing the past gaming gross and the market, and a array listing the benefits of the acquisition. 

Microsoft says the woody would payment players done "more games connected much devices including Xbox, PlayStation, phones, and online," and much alternatives connected however games are purchased and accessed. The institution besides argues it would payment crippled creators with "better gross and just marketplace rules" and "greater flexibility successful outgo systems," portion the crippled manufacture would payment from much contention with Sony, Nintendo, and mobile.

The propulsion for Microsoft to publically pass the Activision Blizzard acquisition successful a much affirmative airy comes arsenic the woody is presently nether introspection by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that the woody would trim competition, portion the European Commission has until Nov. 8 to approve the woody oregon analyse further.

Microsoft had announced it would get Activision Blizzard earlier this twelvemonth for $68.7 billion, and faces regulatory reviews successful respective counties. If the woody goes through, Microsoft would summation developers and games nether Activision, Blizzard, and King. 

That includes large franchises specified arsenic World of Warcraft, Candy Crush, and Call of Duty. The acquisition of the second bid has been disputed by Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan, who called Microsoft's statement to support Call of Duty connected PlayStation platforms "inadequate."