{"id":134508,"date":"2022-01-22T00:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T08:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/is-microsoft-building-a-gaming-monopoly"},"modified":"2022-01-22T00:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T08:22:21","slug":"is-microsoft-building-a-gaming-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/is-microsoft-building-a-gaming-monopoly","title":{"rendered":"Is Microsoft building a gaming monopoly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-microsoft-building-a-gaming-monopoly2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An already big company consolidates its power.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s recent announcement of plans to acquire Activision Blizzard could raise red flags for antitrust regulators amid renewed scrutiny of vertical mergers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An already big company consolidates its power. Microsoft\u2019s recent announcement of plans to acquire Activision Blizzard could raise red flags for antitrust regulators amid renewed scrutiny of vertical mergers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}