Microsoft inks 10-year deal with Boosteroid to ease Activision Blizzard acquisition concerns | Engadget

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Microsoft will bring Call of Duty and its PC games to a cloud service you’ve probably never heard of

. It can stream games in web browsers and offers native apps for Windows, macOS, Android, Android TV and Linux. Boosteroid has servers in Romania, Ukraine, Italy, Slovakia, France, Spain, the UK, Sweden, Serbia and the US.earlier this month to be satisfied enough with Microsoft’s commitments to “likely” give the go-ahead. However, the commission hasn’t said so publicly and has until April 25th to decide. UK regulators’ decision is expected the following day.

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, which favors structural changes over behavioral promises like licensing deals, recently suggested Microsoft could divest itself of Activision’s publishing unit, which Microsoft has indicated it has no interest in doing; deals like the Boosteroid one are part of its fight to avoid that fate.

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Call of Duty will be available in many platforms. That's what they are showing us if this deal gets approved. They'll announce more deals in the coming days or weeks, I wonder if Amazon's Luna will be included. Anyway, I'm only looking forward to play it on Game Pass

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