Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition has officially been approved by UK regulators

Microsoft’s $68.7 billion deal to acquire has been officially approved by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).This development follows the body’s announcement last month that it’d provisionally agreed to allow the deal, following a consultation period designed to help address remaining concerns that certain aspects of the version currently on the table could potentially be “circumvented, terminated, or not enforced.” The CMA blocked the original iteration of the deal submitted by Microsoft back in April, citing apprehension over how it could affect competition in the cloud gaming space.In response, the company behind Xbox then tabled a revised version of it, having agreed to sell some cloud gaming rights for Activision titles to Ubisoft. The CMA has now cleared this new deal. Read more