In the past, the installation of at least 1 language pack was required.For now, though, the company seems eager to sign as many cross-platform deals as it can before merger approval decisions by UK and EU regulators are due in late April. It remains to be seen if Microsoft would also be willing to allow full Call of Duty access on those kinds of competing subscription services. That makes them somewhat different from subscription-based streaming services like Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus, which offer unlimited access to large libraries of console and/or PC games for a single monthly fee without additional purchases. Importantly, both GeForce Now and Boosteroid let users access their own game libraries through accounts set up with third-party PC game platforms. In a recent filing with the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, the PlayStation maker pointed to Microsoft's recent moves to capture exclusive Bethesda Softworks titles as a reason that it couldn't trust the company's cross-platform promises regarding Call of Duty. Full-court pressįurther Reading Why Sony says it can’t trust Microsoft’s Call of Duty offer? One word: BethesdaSony clearly doesn't agree with that argument. With this new deal, that access will expand to include games available through Microsoft's Xbox app on the PC.
Those customers pay 7.50 euro per month to stream games from those servers to any smartphone, Windows/Mac/Linux-based PC, or Android TV device.īoosteroid currently links to users' accounts on other PC-based platforms-including Steam, the Epic Games Store, Blizzard's, EA's Origin, the Rockstar Game Launcher, and Wargaming-and lets them play games from those services without having to install them on a local gaming PC. Started in 2017, Boosteroid boasts 4 million streaming customers using servers based in nine European countries and six US states. The move is being positioned in part to "mak even more clear to regulators that our acquisition of Activision Blizzard will make Call of Duty available on far more devices than before," as Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith said in a statement. Microsoft announced Tuesday that it has signed a 10-year deal to bring its Xbox PC games to little-known Ukraine-based streaming platform Boosteroid.
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