March 24 (UPI) -- The British government's Competition and Markets Authority has reversed provisional findings that originally claimed the proposed acquisition of Activision by Microsoft raised "competition concerns," that Microsoft would make Activision's blockbuster Call of Duty franchise exclusive to its Xbox consoles.
The watchdog said that new evidence showed that it "would not be commercially beneficial" for Microsoft to make the popular game series exclusive to Xbox and would instead still have a financial incentive to make them available on rival PlayStation systems.