BBCNEWS Sportsday June 4, 2024 12:43:00
You're watching bbc news. i'm mark lobel. microsoft has submitted a new deal to buy the gaming giant activision blizzard, best known for games like call of duty, skylanders and candy crush saga. the original bid of £59 billion was rejected by the competition and markets authority earlier this year. in a blog posted today, microsoft's uk boss, brad smith, said the new offer was "substa ntially different" and he expected it to be approved. under the revised deal, microsoft, which makes the xbox console, has agreed to transfer the rights to stream activision games from the cloud to ubisoft, a vi...