What you need to know The UK regulator, known as the CMA, blocked Activision-Blizzard's merger with Xbox. Activision is known for World of Warcraft, Candy Crush, and Call of Duty, and the deal has been protested by Sony, Google, among others. Despite protests from some of Microsoft's larger competitors, the vast majority of the gaming industry have been supportive of the deal, given that Microsoft wants to add its games to competing cloud services. Today, a prominent patent lawyer following the case discovered that the UK regulator's senior director used to work for a firm that is actively representing Sony,...