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The year began with Microsoft announcing its acquisition of Activision Blizzard; the year ends with the deal still incomplete due to US regulator complaints and now with gamers also seeking to block the deal.

Activision's newest game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, was released only on Friday and has become the number one top-selling opening weekend ever in the franchise, and also became the biggest box office opening for the year, surpassing Top Gun: Maverick, and Doctor Strange in the Multitude of Madness combined.

The co-founder of UltraViolet, an American national gender justice advocacy organisation, has called on Meta chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg to step down following reports that she had heavied a newspaper to drop a report about her boyfriend.

Microsoft made big news when it bought Minecraft and when it bought Bethesda, but today’s news is a deal 10 times that. Microsoft has now announced its acquisition of Activision Blizzard for an eye-watering US$70 billion. It makes Microsoft the world’s third-largest gaming company.