Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition blocked by U.K. | Digital Trends

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority has blocked Microsoft’s attempt to acquire Activision Blizzard because of its potential negative impact on cloud gaming.

“Microsoft has a strong position in cloud gaming services and the evidence available to the CMA showed that Microsoft would find it commercially beneficial to make Activision’s games exclusive to its own cloud gaming service,” a press release from the CMA explains. ” Allowing Microsoft to take such a strong position in the cloud gaming market just as it begins to grow rapidly would risk undermining the innovation that is crucial to the development of these opportunities.

Obviously, Activision Blizzard and Microsoft aren’t too happy about this decision. Activision Blizzard directly attacks the CMA in a statement provided to Digital Trends, saying that the “report contradicts the ambitions of the U.K. to become an attractive country to build technology businesses,” before calling the country’s economic prospects “dire” and threatening that it will reconsider its plans for growth in that country.

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