Gabe Newell trusts Microsoft after Call of Duty commitment to Steam, even if the FTC doesn’t

It’s been a wild week for Microsoft, capped off with an official lawsuit by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission aimed at blocking the company’s $69 billion acquisition of video game publisher Activision Blizzard.

In the lawsuit, the FTC remarked that the company was capable of “acquiring and using valuable gaming content to suppress competition from rival consoles,” as evidenced by the company supposedly going against assurances made to other regulatory bodies that “it had no incentive to withhold games from rival consoles.” This is reportedly in reference to Microsoft’s decision to make Bethesda games Redfall and Starfield console-exclusive.

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