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Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue
The judge in the Microsoft/Activision case denied the FTC's request for a preliminary injunction to stop the transaction. That typically means that the FTC will abandon its administrative hearing and the Microsoft/Activision deal will go through with promised commitments.
That leaves the UK as the last holdout on the antitrust front, since the EU cleared it a month or so ago.
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There has been speculation prior that Activision could just abandon the UK as a way around the block. I imagine that doesn’t happen, but it’s a potential way forward for Microsoft. UK is only 3% of the worldwide gaming revenue.