In a major victory for Microsoft and one of the three important markets which the Activision Blizzard acquisition can be stopped or paused have given the blessing for the transaction to close and this is a major blow to USA’s FTC and UK’s CMA.
Today, Microsoft has begun to deploy the May 2023 Xbox update where your console gains internal improvement and some notable features and this time we got three of them, one precisely carrying on with the adoption of Discord as part of Xbox voice chat.
This are not easy days for Xbox and Microsoft Gaming as the company not only had a setback on their quest to buy Activision Blizzard, but also that Xbox itself has not found it’s key game to say that 2023 has been a seamless year so far.
With no E3 this year, it is up to game developers and publishers to began what actually killed the hype about e#, having their own presentation platform and of course, Microsoft will not waste time with Xbox.
We are about to see the repercussions of the United Kingdom giving its thumbs down on the Activision Blizzard buyout by Microsoft, but just another country gave its approval while Microsoft is giving more counter facts against the Cloud Gaming “dominance” narrative.
Yet again, Microsoft with the 2 games offering for Game With Gold, part of the Xbox Live Gold perks (also as part of Game Pass Ultimate perks) and May 2023 collection was announced.
It is just a day later when the UK market watchdog CMA has finally said NO to Microsoft with its intention to buy Activision Blizzard and many are already trying to filter important (and understandable) things out of the almost 400 pages report.