The FTC Has No Business Trying To Stop Video Game Company Mergers

Thursday night, hardcore action/adventure fantasy game Elden Ring took home top honors at The Game Awards 2022. Rival game God of War: Ragnarok took quite a few honors home as well. The two of them won pretty much any category in which they were nominated.

While this was happening, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it would take action to attempt to block Microsoft (which owns several game companies and the Xbox gaming platform) from acquiring video game company Activision Blizzard, the publisher of well-known games World of Warcraft...