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How Call of Duty became Britain's post-Brexit battleground

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The UK's Antitrust Regulators Block a Deal by Microsoft to Buy Video Game Maker Activision Blizzard

British antitrust regulators have blocked Microsoft's $69 billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard. The old cash deal was set to be the biggest in the history of the tech industry, put together by the maker of Xbox video game consoles. In post-Brexit Britain, could this deal land a fatal blow to the government's plans to make the UK a global tech superpower? If deals like this can't get through, they'll be Death Valley.

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