Microsoft, Activision agree to extend deal deadline to Oct. 18

Microsoft and Activision Blizzard connected Wednesday agreed to widen the deadline for their merger statement until Oct. 18, Activision said successful a connection connected Wednesday.

Originally the 2 companies had agreed to implicit the transaction by July 18, but regulatory pushback from the U.S. and the U.K. delayed the takeover.

The hold was made arsenic the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority moved to hold its reappraisal of the woody until Aug. 29. Microsoft and Activision are present giving themselves capable clip for the CMA appraisal to finalize.

The CMA had primitively blocked the transaction successful May, citing concerns implicit the menace to contention successful the nascent unreality gaming market.

The U.K. regulator changed tack and paused each litigation aft the Federal Trade Commission's effort to artifact the woody failed successful court.

The CMA said it was "ready to see immoderate proposals from Microsoft to restructure the transaction" successful a mode to fulfill the regulator's concerns.

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