Tom Warren

Competition and Markets Authority chief executive Sarah Cardell says the UK regulator is still waiting on Microsoft to submit its proposals to restructure its Activision Blizzard deal to address cloud gaming concerns. “The ball is very much in their court at the moment,” says Cardell, in an interview with Sky News. Microsoft and Activision Blizzard have now agreed to extend their merger agreement to October 18th in order to deal with the UK regulatory situation.

The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has agreed, with some requirements that need to be satisfied on Thursday, to pause Microsoft’s appeal of the CMA decision to block the Activision Blizzard merger. Both the CMA and Microsoft requested this last week, to allow them to negotiate over a cloud gaming deal. The CMA has also extended the date for its final order from July 18th to August 29th, so it’s likely that Microsoft’s deal will tick past the July 18th deadline and could see a temporary extension.