Microsoft pushes to get $69bn Activision deal approved by British regulators

Call of Duty: Ghosts: Microsoft has already agreed to license Activision blockbuster title Call of Duty to rival Sony.

Microsoft's $69bn (€64bn) Activision Blizzard acquisition got a new chance at winning approval from British regulators after the tech giant submitted a substantially different deal to the country’s antitrust watchdog.

In a rare move, the Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA, will open a new deal probe after Microsoft said it would give Ubisoft Entertainment rights to distribute Activision games, potentially easing concerns over its dominance in the cloud gaming market, it said in a statement. The CMA has set a statutory deadline of October 18 for the phase-one probe.