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UK watchdog softens position on Microsoft Activision deal

LONDON � British antitrust regulators scrutinizing Microsoft's blockbuster purchase of videogame maker Activision Blizzard on Friday dropped concerns that the deal would hurt the console gaming market, narrowing the scope of their investigation.

The Competition and Markets Authority said it no longer thinks the $69 billion deal will result in a "substantial lessening of competition" for console games in the U.K., an update to provisional findings issued last month based on new evidence.

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The Activision Blizzard Booth on June 13, 2013, during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles.





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