Save and restart: The Tipline for 23 June 2023

The Federal Trade Commission might be better known for pushing novel theories of harm, but day one of its bid to halt Microsoft/Activision Blizzard was full of firsts. After the FTC took home the title of first government agency to bring an Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch into a courtroom, Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley heard the one and only Minecraft tutorial in a merger trial. The hearing also marks the first, and hopefully last, time a Microsoft executive has discussed “necromancy”. Also in Tipline, Republican lawmakers take aim at pharmacy benefit managers.