Activision CEO confident "this deal will close" despite FTC suing Microsoft

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick reckons Microsoft's pending $69 billion acquisition of the publisher will still go through even though the US Federal Trade Commission has moved to block the deal with a lawsuit.The publisher's Twitter shared an internal statement sent by Kotick earlier today addressing the news. "This means they will file a lawsuit to block the merger, and arguments will be heard by a judge," Kotick said of the FTC. "This sounds alarming, so I wanted to reinforce my confidence that t