Tenzin Thinley
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“xbox wins?”
When Microsoft announced that it was spending $69 billion to buy the video game maker Activision Blizzard in January last year, Justin Kats was stunned.
To Mr. Kats, a 34-year-old former professional video game player from Lansing, Ill., it was a seismic event that allowed Microsoft to claim victory over Sony in the console business by obtaining Activision’s slate of popular games, like Call of Duty.