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This Week in Business is our weekly recap column, a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. Check back every Friday for a new entry.
Between Gamescom, the latest dramatic twist in the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard acquisition story, and new hardware announcements from Sony and Atari, it was a really big week for games news.
Okay, the new hardware announcements is just me desperately trying to come up with a third thing to justify it being a really big week for news. We'll get to those briefly in a little bit, but to start with, we can mosey through those first two actually big bits of news we saw this week.