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Idas said:

I see that the FTC added a summary to the case:

The Federal Trade Commission authorized an administrative complaint against the proposed merger between Microsoft Corp. and Activision Blizzard, Inc., a video game developer that creates and publishes games such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Overwatch. Microsoft sells the Xbox gaming console and also offers a video game subscription service called Xbox Game Pass, as well as a cloud-based video game streaming service. The agency alleges that the deal would enable Microsoft to suppress competitors to its Xbox gaming consoles and its rapidly growing subscription and cloud-gaming business. An evidentiary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 2, 2023 at 10 a.m. ET before an Administrative Law Judge at the FTC's headquarters at 600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Room 532.

And we finally have the scheduling order for the administrative complaint:

- January 17, 2023: the FTC will provide the preliminary witness list (not including experts)

- January 24, 2023: MS/ABK will provide the preliminary witness list (not including experts)

- February 24, 2023: the FTC will provide the expert witness list

- March 3, 2023: deadline for issuing document requests, interrogatories and subpoenas

- March 10, 2023: MS/ABK will provide expert witness list

And much more key dates from now on until August 2nd 2023.

This is the “result” of the pre hearing from last week.

Looking forward to the those witness lists :p

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Please...Someone call up Nintendo as a witness