Activision shares slid, while Microsoft’s rose, after a U.K. regulator rejected Microsoft’s deal to buy the game maker. Heard on the Street’s djtgallagher explains. WSJWhatsNow
Microsoft will be just fine without Activision Blizzard , though its cloud gaming ambitions might not be.
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority rejected Microsoft’s $75 billion deal to buy Activision on Wednesday morning. The agency, which is the country’s main antitrust watchdog,would ultimately harm the nascent market for cloud-based videogame services by giving the owner of the Xbox platform control over Activision’s popular game franchises such as “Call of Duty.
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