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Microsoft offers Activision deal remedy to EU regulator focused on cloud gaming

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 17 Mar 2023 11:12
  • 17 Mar 2023 16:03
Microsoft committed to EU regulators last night to make Activision Blizzard's catalog of games, including Call of Duty, available to rival cloud gaming services if its $69 billion acquisition of the game-maker is approved, MLex has learned.
The offer does not include concessions to ease EU concerns over how the

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Nicholas Hirst

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Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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