EU still set to OK Microsoft's Activision slurp, UK disagrees
Microsoft leadership spent the early days of 2023 in aof Europe to win approval from regulators, scoring deals with several cloud streaming and video gaming rivals to appease the EU over antitrust concerns. Microsoft owns the Xbox console line, built up its Azure cloud empire, absorbed various games studios, and now wants to hoover up Activision Blizzard; that kind of monopolistic consolidation of hardware, delivery platform, and content puts the fear into Europeans.
Redmond's trip ended with deals between Microsoft and Nvidia, Nintendo, and a pair of cloud streaming services, ostensibly to keep some degree of competition and consumer choice alive, with Sony theThe EU has given itself a May 22 deadline to issue its decision, and regulators in Ukraine, South Africa, Japan, Chile, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and Serbia have approved the deal.blocked
Microsoft's Acti-Bliz acquisition proposal in late April on grounds it would give the combined might of the two titans outsized influence on the gaming industry, and the growing cloud gaming market in particular. It's feared Microsoft will crush any upcoming rivals in the cloud-streaming world from its entrenched position in the market.
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