UK regulator opposes Microsoft deal to buy Activision

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said it is opposed to Microsoft's planned acquisition of games developer Activision Blizzard.

The CMA said it had provisionally concluded it would effect successful higher prices, less choices and little innovation.

The $69bn (£57bn) woody would spot Xbox-maker Microsoft get deed titles specified arsenic Call of Duty and Candy Crush.

Microsoft said it would find solutions to "address the CMA's concerns".

Rima Alaily, Microsoft firm vice-president and lawman wide counsel, said: "Our committedness to assistance semipermanent 100% adjacent entree to Call of Duty to Sony, Nintendo, Steam and others preserves the deal's benefits to gamers and developers, and increases contention successful the market."

She added that 75% of respondents to the CMA's nationalist consultation "agree that this woody is bully for competition in UK gaming".