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Microsoft Corp. has signaled it plans to situation the Federal Trade Commission’s suit to artifact its $75 cardinal deal for Activision Blizzard Inc., and is expected to reason that it is an underdog successful videogame developing.

The personal-computing institution has been publicizing its presumption for months, saying the acquisition wouldn’t endanger contention successful the manufacture due to the fact that Microsoft trails rivals successful videogame consoles and has a constricted beingness successful mobile-game development. The institution has besides said it expects the manufacture to get much competitory successful the aboriginal with the emergence of unreality gaming.