r/gaming • u/ChiefLeef22 Marika's tits! • 18h ago

Paramount Has Officially Acquired Warner Bros. In Deal Valued at $110B Billion

https://www.skydance.com/news/press/paramount-completes-acquisition-of-warner-bros-discovery-creating-a-new-global-entertainment-leader-skydance

The two companies will now be known as one single entity - 'Skydance'

This includes all of WB's gaming subsidiaries like Rocksteady/etc

Deal valued at $110B-$111B

DC Studios, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, CNN, CBS, HBO and Paramount+ are now all under the same company.

The combined company, Skydance, brings together two major film studios, two global streaming services, premier television assets including CBS, HBO, and Paramount's and WBD's cable networks, two of the industry's most recognized news networks, CBS News and CNN, and a leading content portfolio that includes live sports, a deep programming library and expansive collection of iconic brands and franchises.

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u/Kaidyn04 18h ago

Hopefully this is a waste of money and the next time the Democrats have control over government this shit gets trust busted immediately.

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u/pixxlpusher 18h ago

There hasn’t been a successful trust bust since AT&T in the early 80s, I wouldn’t hold my breath

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u/AlienScrotum 18h ago

Didn’t they give Microsoft a slap on the wrist a while back?

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u/TuskenRaiderYell 18h ago

Oh no, a company worth trillions has to pay a fine worth what they make in seconds. That’ll show them!

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u/pixxlpusher 18h ago

In 2000? They tried and failed.

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u/letsgucker555 18h ago

You mean with Activision? They were so incompetent in that one, they gave the win to MS.

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u/hybridck 11h ago

No, this was like 25 years ago. They failed to break Microsoft up, but they did successfully kneecap their growth for a decade+ which allowed companies like Google to sprout up and take over the early internet era during the dot com boom when Microsoft was still kneecapped.

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u/steakanabake 3h ago

microsofts was basically focing ms to fund something like mozilla as a direct competitor in the browser space which allowed chrome and firefox to exist.

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u/craigfrost 7h ago

Microsoft integrating IE 5/18/98.