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FTC v. Microsoft: all the news from the big Xbox courtroom battle

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Bethesda executive Pete Hines is taking the stand.

He and an FTC attorney are currently struggling to nail down whether he reports to Microsoft executive Phil Spencer and when “Bethesda” actually refers to its parent company ZeniMax. Less mind-numbingly, the FTC is pushing Hines on a core piece of its argument: that Microsoft buying ZeniMax/Bethesda led to games getting locked down to Xbox.

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