Microsoft has published a report for the first quarter of fiscal 2024, which ended on September 30. It tells, among other things, about the successes of Starfield.

The growth of the Game Pass audience has ceased to affect the amount of annual bonuses that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella receives. This happened against the background of weak Game Pass indicators: for two years in a row, subscription growth did not meet the expectations of the corporation.

The head of Activision Blizzard, Bobby Kotick, will continue to lead the company. He will be its CEO at least until the end of 2023.

The most expensive takeover in the history of the gaming industry has ended. Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard 20 months after the deal was announced.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has approved a deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. The agency finally came to the conclusion that the takeover will not harm competition in the cloud gaming market.

Microsoft is preparing to announce the completion of the purchase of Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion on October 13. This is reported by The Verge source.

Last week, internal Microsoft documents used in court with the US Federal Trade Commission leaked to the network. Analyst Piers Harding-Rolls found in them a table in which Microsoft listed the ten largest companies in terms of estimated revenue from games for 2021.

On the morning of September 22, Activision Blizzard shares rose in price. As Bloomberg noted, in pre-market trading, their value increased by 2.2% to $94.39 apiece.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has previously announced that it no longer considers the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard a threat to competition in the cloud gaming market. He was convinced by the agreement that Microsoft signed with Ubisoft.

On September 18, a lot of confidential Microsoft documents appeared on the web, published as evidence in court with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). According to the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, a significant part of them is already outdated.

You will have to fork out a lot for the expansion of the Game Pass library. Microsoft management came to such conclusions, according to a leaked internal correspondence that appeared on the website of the District Court of Northern California.

In 2020, Microsoft’s gaming division was considering buying Nintendo. This was stated by the head of Xbox Phil Spencer (Phil Spencer) in a letter to top managers of the corporation, disclosed as part of the court on the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard.

The Game Pass audience can exceed 30 million people. This figure was indicated in the LinkedIn account by Craig McNary, senior director of Xbox brand marketing.

Microsoft used rumors about its plans to close the deal with Activision Blizzard without the approval of the British regulator to force the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to sue it in a hurry. This is reported by Bloomberg.

Microsoft has signed an agreement with Ubisoft allowing it to distribute Activision Blizzard games through the cloud. As the corporation hopes, it will convince the British regulator to approve the deal with Activision Blizzard.

The antimonopoly regulator of New Zealand announced that it does not object to the sale of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft.

Microsoft has published a report for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023, which ended on June 30. According to analysts, this period was the second best fourth quarter for the gaming division of the corporation.

On July 18, the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard was supposed to be completed. However, the merger was decided to be postponed in light of negotiations with British regulators. Now the papers must be signed no later than October 18.

News about the absence of news. On July 18, the deal to purchase Activision Blizzard from Microsoft was supposed to be completed. But now it is unclear what the parties have come to (although everyone understands everything).