Interestingly, the main concern of the UK CMA here seems to be around Cloud Gaming specifically. As they said in their statement "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 Ac...
the company would make a turnaround. Microsoft acquired GitHub, the largest infrastructure host for open-source projects, made parts of its code public, and invested in the development of Linux.
Well, that depends who they would license the games to for streaming via cloud gaming (as that's what all this is about). Some cloud gaming providers that end up working with Ubisoft to provide Activision games might run their services on Linux systems. However, the CMA are notentir...
Activision-Blizzard.In January 2022, Microsoft sought to boost its position in the gaming industry with the $68 billionacquisition of Activision-Blizzard, the maker of game franchises such asCall of DutyandDiablo. Activision became a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft in October 2023. The deal w...
Microsoft's revised offer to buy Activision Blizzard has been approved by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) after its initial acquisition attempt was blocked by the UK antitrust regulator. Under the revised deal, French video game publisher Ubisoft will be given the rights to distribute ...
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And with our planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard, we aim to give players more choice to play great games wherever, whenever, and however they want. Choice is equally important to developers, who we want to support with a diversity of distribution and business models for their games. We...
Microsoft is not taking no for an answer. Shortly after the CMA's announcement went public, Microsoft's Vice Chair and President, issued a statement via Twitter announcing Microsoft's intent to still acquire Activision and appeal the CMA's decision. ...
Despite opposition from the UK CMA, and the ongoing legal battle in the USA, the acquisition of Activision Blizzard takes a step forward as the European Commission has approved it now.