Microsoft and Activision Blizzard extend deadline to close acquisition deal

Microsoft wants to buy Activision which makes the popular Call Of Duty games (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File)

The deadline for Microsoft’s $69bn (€60.8bn) acquisition of video game company Activision Blizzard has been extended.

The companies are looking to close a deal that has been challenged by regulators in the US, as well as by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).