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    UK regulators likely to decide on Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal next week.

    The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is expected to issue a preliminary decision on Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal next week, a source familiar with the situation tells The Verge. It follows Microsoft restructuring its deal — after the CMA blocked it over cloud gaming concerns — to transfer cloud gaming rights for current and new Activision Blizzard games to Ubisoft.

    This preliminary decision will then be followed by a final one, due by October 18th. The UK is the final regulatory hurdle for Microsoft’s giant deal.

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    Microsoft addresses the huge Xbox leaks: here’s Phil Spencer’s full memoMicrosoft addresses the huge Xbox leaks: here’s Phil Spencer’s full memo
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    Tom Warren
    It’s too late to delete Microsoft’s secret Xbox docs.

    That hasn’t stopped the US District Court for the Northern District of California, though. After a massive leak of Microsoft’s Xbox roadmap earlier today, the District Court has now deleted all of the evidence in the FTC v. Microsoft case from its website. The FTC has also made it clear this leak was Microsoft’s mistake. Oops.

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