Microsoft Announces 10-Year Agreement to Bring Xbox PC Games and Call of Duty to Boosteroid Cloud Gaming Platform

[Tsing]

The amount of agreements that Microsoft is making to convince regulators that its planned $75 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard won't harm the video game industry is really starting to stack up. Boosteroid, a cloud gaming platform that allows users to enjoy high-end video games at 60 FPS (Full HD 1080p) on a PC, laptop, tablet, Android TV, and smartphones, has revealed that Microsoft will bring Xbox PC games, as well as Activision Blizzard titles (e.g., Call of Duty), to the service as part of a new 10-year agreement. Boosteroid, which has its software development team in Ukraine, describes itself as the largest independent cloud gaming provider in the world, having recently surpassed 4 million users globally.

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[Uvilla]

Ms is being stupid. They should wait to have government discussion, they usually go for 2 or 5 years, like they did with att. Ah, what a deal, att had to offer a cheaper broadband or some such, but didn't have to announce it, so they absolutely buried it. I got it somehow (don't even remember how I found it on their website, this was after reading news about it) and it was a pita, plus it did no last long at all. It was a ridiculously weak 'deal'.