Surprise, You're Wrong! | Microsoft Found $68.7 Billion in Their Couch Cushions and Decided To Buy Activision-Blizzard
To be fair, Microsoft has a LOT of couches. And cushions.
Holy moly, that came out of left field! In what is likely to be the most notorious (and expensive) example of buying one's way out of last place for quite a while, Microsoft decided to snatch up Activision-Blizzard wholesale (yep, it's a buyout, not a merger), and our favourite nerds thought it was too much of a bombshell not to... regale... us with their thoughts on the matter immediately.