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The UK’s treatment of Activision shows it is closed for business

27 April 2023

3:07 AM

27 April 2023

3:07 AM

It was, admittedly, not quite as thrilling as an action sequence from Call of Duty. Even so, the statement put out by Bobby Kotnick, chief executive of US video game publisher Activision, following the UK’s bizarre decision to block the company’s acquisition by Microsoft was about as bloodthirsty as any ever put out by a major corporation.

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