Back in 2022Epic Games agreed to pay $245 million as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over “dark patterns” that may have enticed players to spend in-game money on cosmetics, dance emotes and other items that They don't actually want to spend. Two years later, the first payments are finally made ...
Picture: Microsoft On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission cited Microsoft’s recent price adjustment for Xbox Game Pass as Evidence of the damage caused by the merger with Activision Blizzard had on consumers. The agency filed a new letter in its ongoing appeal of last year’s deal and called the changes “exactly the kind of consumer ...
Chaired by Lina Khan, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has come in for a lot of trouble for trying to be aggressive in regulating tech companies and preventing monopolies. Now the FTC faces criticism from both congressional Republicans and very online Xbox fans to appeal against a recent court decision That gave Microsoft the green ...
The Federal Trade Commission just announced that Microsoft was fined $20 million “for illegally collecting personally identifiable information from children who signed up for the Xbox gaming system without their parents’ consent.” The new game from Dead By Daylight Devs is Fortnite Meets Doom The verdict follows a larger December 2022 verdict when Epic Games, ...
photo: Zed Jameson/Bloomberg (Getty Images) Today, Microsoft filed a revised response to the United States Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit aimed at stopping the tech giant from acquiring it call of Duty Publishers Activision. the First login contained several arguments claiming that the FTC itself and its court system were unconstitutional. But now Microsoft has ripped ...
