The head of Xbox in an interview with CNBC called the video game industry a very competitive market. He pointed out that companies like Tencent and Sony are actively buying up studios, so if Microsoft wants to continue to be a major player, it needs to continue investing after the deal with Activision Blizzard.

At the beginning of September, the regulator noted that companies can avoid a detailed audit if they prove that their deal will not have a negative impact on the gaming industry.

According to the Financial Times, the British regulator will begin checking the deal in detail this week. In the EU, an in-depth investigation will start after Microsoft officially hands over all the necessary documents to Brussels.

The corporation told about this in a report for the Brazilian regulator.

The agency said that first he needed to get additional information. What kind of information is this and who should provide it is not specified.

The head of Activision Blizzard reacted to the statement of the British regulator. According to him, now many companies in the gaming industry are actively engaged in purchases, so there is nothing surprising in the desire of the authorities to better understand what is happening.

The UK authorities are not yet ready to approve the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft. The local regulator, in particular, fears that Microsoft may use control over Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and other franchises to harm competitors.

This was stated by Harrison Hoffman, chief product manager at Xbox. He said that although the corporation pays a lot of attention to streaming cloud games to smartphones, it is much more interested in the possibility of broadcasting games to televisions.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) held a meeting with Microsoft representatives on the purchase of Activision Blizzard. On it, the regulator expressed concern about the deal.

During a conversation with Bloomberg, the head of Xbox also touched on the topic of games. In his opinion, in the future, exclusives will be replaced by titles with crossplay support, although not everyone likes them now.

The head of Xbox told about this in an interview with Bloomberg. Spencer stressed that he had never made a deal worth almost $70 billion before and did not know how antitrust regulators behave in such cases. But it seems to him that so far everything is going well.

A culinary simulator from the Polish Big Cheese Studio appeared as part of the Game Pass on August 11. It was a good deal for the developers. As they noted in the report for investors, the $600 thousand received is about 22% of the studio’s revenue for the previous fiscal year.

Three months ago, Microsoft announced the Dev Box cloud service, with which developers can remotely interact with pre-configured workstations. Yesterday, the corporation officially opened access to it for everyone.

Although Microsoft told about this last week in a report for the Brazilian regulator, the media only paid attention to the detail now.

The corporation mentioned this in a report for the Brazilian regulator, which is checking the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard.

Analyst Michael Pachter shared this opinion in a conversation with Yahoo! Finance. For clarity: in January, Microsoft reported only 25 million Game Pass subscribers.

The companies hope that thanks to their cooperation, it will become easier for developers to release games on PC and Xbox consoles. In particular, Unity plans to move some more of its tools to the cloud.

The success of the cloud gaming service was shared by Catherine Gluckstein, head of product at Microsoft. However, she did not say exactly how many people are now using Xbox Cloud Gaming for an hour.

The deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard is being checked by antitrust regulators around the world. Recently, in response to a request from the New Zealand department, Microsoft stated that it does not consider the publisher’s games unique. According to the corporation, they are also not a desirable target for its competitors-distributors of games on PC and consoles.