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Canada’s Department of Justice has concluded that Microsoft’s <\/a>deal to buy Call of Duty<\/a> maker Activision Blizzard “is likely to” lead to less competition in some aspects of gaming, according to a court filing on Thursday.<\/p>\n In a letter dated Wednesday to Microsoft’s US lawyers, the department said it had communicated to Microsoft’s and Activision’s<\/a> lawyers in Canada that the deal would likely lead to less competition in “gaming consoles and multigame subscription services (as well as cloud gaming).”<\/p>\n On Thursday, the letter was put on the docket of a US federal court proceeding in which the US Federal Trade Commission is asking a judge to temporarily stop the proposed transaction so that an FTC<\/a> judge will have time to assess it. Closing arguments in the proceeding are set for later on Thursday.<\/p>\n Microsoft has pressed for a decision in the court fight before the July 18 termination date for the deal. A ruling could come as early as next week.<\/p>\n In a statement, Microsoft said it was working with antitrust enforcers to address concerns.<\/p>\n “We received notice from the Canada Competition Bureau that it would continue to monitor our acquisition of Activision Blizzard after the formal waiting period preventing the deal to close expired,” a Microsoft spokesperson said.<\/p>\n Microsoft’s bid to acquire the Call of Duty videogame maker also faces opposition from British competition authorities. Microsoft’s appeal to Britain’s Competition Appeal Tribunal is scheduled for July 28.<\/p>\n \u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2023<\/em><\/p>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Canada’s Department of Justice has concluded that Microsoft’s deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard “is likely to” lead to less competition in some aspects of gaming, according to a court filing on Thursday. In a letter dated Wednesday to Microsoft’s US lawyers, the department said it had communicated to Microsoft’s and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Affiliate links may be automatically generated – see our ethics statement<\/a> for details.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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