![]() ![]() By offering Game Pass' PC games collection to people who might not even have a Windows PC, let alone an Xbox, Microsoft could be seen as signaling, in a slightly different key, that it really, truly does not intend to become a monolithic $10-$15 per month requirement for modern gaming.īut there are two big caveats to this offering. Game Pass is Microsoft's all-in-one subscription that lets customers install, play, or stream a buffet of AAA and indie games. Game Pass is different from the Xbox library or store, however. Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith said in both a statement and a Wall Street Journal interview that these deals were partly based on countering the perception that Microsoft would get Call of Duty from the deal and lock it into Game Pass. Microsoft in March announced a similar library deal with Boosteroid, a cloud-gaming service more popular in Europe. That deal, announced in February shortly after a separate 10-year agreement to offer Call of Duty games on Nintendo hardware, said that work would begin "immediately" on bringing Microsoft's Xbox PC game library and first-party titles purchased in other stores, like Steam, to GeForce Now. Microsoft had previously signed a 10-year commitment to bringing Xbox library games to Nvidia's GeForce Now game-streaming service. ![]() ![]() Microsoft's opening up of its PC Game Pass library to GeForce Now is predicated on countering the notion that its ownership of game studios, gaming hardware, and a cloud gaming/subscription service (let alone desktop gaming's most popular operating system) constitutes an unfair vertical monopoly, especially in cloud gaming.Īcquiring Activision Blizzard, the UK Competition and Markets Authority wrote in April, would result in "a substantial lessening of competition" in that country's cloud-gaming offerings, and Microsoft would likely "find it commercially beneficial to make Activision’s titles exclusive to its own cloud gaming service," the Authority wrote. The shortest, most context-free version of it is that some Game Pass games for PC will soon be available to stream through Nvidia's GeForce Now if you happen to subscribe to both services.īut most anyone following the company's quest to acquire Activision Blizzard, currently stalled by UK regulators, can see it as a transparent maneuver in Microsoft's continuing charm campaign. Monopoly Official - Monopoly youtu.There's a lot to unpack inside the game-streaming news from Microsoft's Xbox event over the weekend. Here's a look at teen inventors getting surprised by the cash: Monopoly" occurred a few weeks after "Monopoly Socialism," yet another tongue-in-cheek version of the game that was criticized for poking fun at socialism. "I think it's super important to talk about equal pay and that there's no such thing as boys' subjects and girls' subjects."ĬNN noted that the appearance of "Ms. "I never put the dots together and realized it was that much of a gap," Gitanjali noted to the paper. USA Today also said she was "appalled" to learn more about the gender pay gap. "It really expanded my knowledge and was so empowering to me." ![]() "There are so many big things that most people think are created by men, but they're actually created by women," Gitanjali, who's on Forbes' 2019 30 under 30 list for science, noted to the paper. Monopoly," Hasbro doled out $20,580 - not in game money, but real cash - to a trio of teenage female inventors, the paper said: Gitanjali Rao, 13, of Denver Sophia Wang, 16, of Connecticut, and Ava Canney, also 16, from Ireland.Īmong Gitanjali's inventions is the Tethys, which detects lead in drinking water, USA Today added. ![]()
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