The UK competition regulator has blocked Microsoft’s $75bn acquisition of the Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard, in a possibly fatal blow to the software giant’s biggest-ever deal.
The Competition & Markets Authority said on Wednesday it believed the company would be commercially motivated to make Activision’s games exclusive to its own cloud gaming service.
An Activision spokesperson said the ruling “contradicts the ambitions of the UK to become an attractive country to build technology businesses” and were a “disservice to UK citizens, who face increasingly dire economic prospects.”
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