It comes after the UK approved the $69bn takeover of Activision Blizzard, which makes Call of Duty.
Microsoft has completed its $69bn takeover of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard in the gaming industry's biggest ever deal.
Despite concerns from rivals such as PlayStation-maker Sony, and regulators over competition in the gaming industry, Mr Spencer, who is chief executive of Microsoft Gaming, sought to reassure gamers. But despite approving the takeover, the watchdog criticised Microsoft's conduct over the near-two year battle.
But the CMA's Ms Cardell said with the sale of Activision's cloud streaming rights to Ubisoft, which makes Assassin's Creed, "we've made sure Microsoft can't have a stranglehold over this important and rapidly developing market". Microsoft is hopeful the takeover will boost demand for its Xbox console and enable the tech firm to add more titles to its Xbox Game Pass service, where members pay a subscription fee to access a catalogue of games from the cloud - either by downloading or by streaming.
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