A key regulator has said it provisionally no longer believes Microsoft’s proposed deal to buy Activision Blizzard would result in a lessening of competition in the console space, paving the way for the purchase to go through.
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority said on Friday that it has narrowed the scope of its concerns about the deal. Importantly, though, the deal is not complete, and the CMA still has concerns about Microsoft’s bid to buy Activision Blizzard in the area of cloud gaming.
The CMA said in a news release that it received a “significant amount of new evidence,” and based upon this–along with the careful consideration of a “wide range” of other information–the group now believes, provisionally, that Microsoft’s deal shouldn’t be all that problematic in the UK.