US antitrust watchdog has sued Microsoft to stop its takeover of gaming giant Activision saying the deal would enable the company to suppress its competitors and harm consumers.
Merging with troubled Activision will make Microsoft the third-largest gaming company by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony.
The tech giant will pay $80 million to members of a 2018 class-action suit, including hundreds of current and former California workers, and another $20 million will go to plaintiffs' legal fees.
The shakeup comes a week after workers walked out to protest sexism and harassment as a call went out online to boycott Activision games.
Videogame sales in the United States surged in the last two months as the virus shut down the country, with sales in March hitting their highest in over a decade.
The release of World of Warcraft Classic, a repackaging of the 15-year-old version of its popular World of Warcraft online role-playing game, had created a substantial buzz in the video games world - the US financial newspaper said
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