Sony Group  (SNE) – Get Sony Corp. Report appears to be the big loser from Microsoft’s  (MSFT) – Get Microsoft Corporation Report $68.7 billion proposed acquisition of video game studio Activision as Microsoft now controls some of the biggest games on the market. 

Microsoft Gaming has just announced that it is acquiring Activision Blizzard in a record-breaking acquisition that will total $68.7 billion – roughly five times bigger than the previous record which was recently set by Take-Two Interactive’s acquisition of Zynga.

When it comes to facts, CNN seems to believe that only it should be able to tell you what they are and what they aren’t. That desire goes so far as to suggest that going out and doing your own research is “idiotic.”

A poll has found a sweeping majority of voters in favor of banning members of Congress from trading stocks, adding to arguments in favor of regulating lawmaker’s trades after an Insider investigation.

Free speech video sharing platform Rumble has invested in a new “censor-resistant” payment processor, Parallel Economy, to continue its mission of building “the rails and independent infrastructure for a digital economy immune from cancel culture.”

Gaming application Pavia launched on the Cardano network last week, becoming the first-ever metaverse project on the blockchain.

Some 100,000 “land parcels” were issued on Pavia, each being minted as a unique non-fungible token (NFT) with individual “coordinates.” Over 60% of these parcels were pre-sold in October and November 2021, with the remaining set to go on sale in the first quarter of 2022.

More bad news for the senile and crazy Biden regime. 58% of voters now believe cheating was likely in the 2020 presidential election. This number is UP 4 points since the last Rasmussen poll.

Californian legislators are planning to pass an amendment to the state’s constitution to establish a universal, single-payer healthcare system with taxpayers bearing the brunt of the costs.

Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre is fighting for the release of the eight names, cited in a 2015 lawsuit against Maxwell.

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is no longer objecting to the release of the names of eight John Does referenced in a 2015 lawsuit against her from a Jeffrey Epstein accuser.

In a drastic pivot from typical denunciations of false flag operations as conspiratorial nonsense that don’t exist outside the demented imagination of Alex Jones, the US political/media class is proclaiming with one voice that Russia is currently orchestrating just such an operation to justify an invasion of Ukraine.