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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 73%. (I'm a bot)


Steffan Powell, the BBC's gaming correspondent, says: "The decision is not curtains for Microsoft's hope of acquiring Activision Blizzard, but it's not what bosses at the company would have wanted."Over the next few weeks there will be a lot of back and forth between lawyers and officials - as Microsoft argues that this deal is actually a good thing for UK gamers and not, as this provisional conclusion suggests, restrictive.
"There has not been scrutiny of a deal like this in gaming's history, but then there has also not been a £57bn deal like this in gaming's history either."
Now the UK's markets authority says it has provisionally concluded that the tech giant's bid to buy one of the world's largest games publishers could be harmful to the wider gaming sector.


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Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop drinking. >

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop  ~~sniffing glue~~  playing World of Warcraft