Less than a month after the deal was blocked by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, the European Commission has cleared Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, finding that Microsoft "would have no incentive to refuse to distribute Activision’s games to Sony” and that “even if Microsoft did decide to withdraw Activision’s games from the PlayStation, this would not significantly harm competition in the consoles market.
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BlizzCon 2009 Coverage Roundup
We’ve been collecting coverage of this past weekend’s BlizzCon 2009 from around the Web, and have compiled a small fraction of it here for you to catch up on anything you may have missed, or just read more about your favorites. Whether you’re interested in hands-on write-ups of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, detailed information about Diablo III’s monk class, news from StarCraft II’s panels, a peek into the future of Battle.net, scads of pictures from the costume contest, or anything else that emerged from BlizzCon, take a look at the links below.
BlizzCon General Coverage
- GameSetWatch
- Game Videos
- IGN PC: BlizzCon 2009 Coverage
- Kotaku: The Show So Far
- Joystiq: Ozzy Osbourne Closes Show Down
- GameSpy
- Joystiq: Day One Round-up
- IGN PC: Ozzy Osbourne Interview
- Slashdot
- GameSpot
- Kotaku: Stuff You Can Buy at BlizzCon
- 1UP
- IGN PC: BlizzCon Keynote Full of Surprises
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
- IGN PC: Cataclysm Hands-on
- Kotaku: The Lands Beyond the Cataclysm
- Kotaku: Hands-on With Cataclysm’s Goblins and Worgen
- Wired
- Eurogamer
- Joystiq
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GameSpot: Cataclysm Hands-on
- GameSpot: World of Warcraft Panel Sees Cataclysmic Changes
- GameSpy: Cataclysm Preview Panel Report
- GameSpy: Dungeons and Raids Galore
- GameSpy: Hands-on with World of Warcraft’s Worgen Race
- WarCry: Cataclysm Part 1: Old Villains, New Races
- WarCry: Cataclysm Part 2: The World Reshaped
- WarCry: Cataclysm Part 3: Dungeons With Dragons
Diablo III
- GameSpy: Details on Diablo III’s Monk
- GameSpot: Video: BlizzCon 09 Interview
- WarCry: Hands on with Diablo III’s Monk
- GameSpy
- Voodoo Extreme
- IGN PC: Diablo III Monk Hands-on
- IGN PC: Diablo III Q&A
- Kotaku
- GameTrailers: Video Interview
- Destructoid
StarCraft II
- IGN PC
- Gamasutra
- Joystiq: BSG’s Tricia Helfer to voice StarCraft II’s Kerrigan
- Kotaku: Tricia Helfer is StarCraft II’s Kerrigan
- Kotaku: Keeping Things Fresh in the StarCraft II Expansions
- Joystiq: StarCraft II Map Editor Flexibility
- Gamasutra: StarCraft II will Allow Modders to Sell Custom Maps
- Shacknews
Battle.net
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