Idas said:

Kind of wish Bethesda would go full CD Projekt and give us sex scenes with nudity in their games, lol. Since it's say there is no sex I guess the "very mild impact" nudity is a brief shot of a guy's ass changing clothes or something. 

Diablo 4 early access beta is preloaded and ready for the Noon EST launch tomorrow!

Happy Birthday @shikamaru317 

It sounds like Microsoft’s meeting with the CMA went about as well as it could have. Doesn’t mean they will succeed, but the fact that the CMA didn’t immediately dismiss and move on from conversations about behavioral remedies feels significant.

At this point I care less about whether call of duty is third party or not and more about what this deal means for Microsoft’s commitment to the industry. If this deal goes through there can be zero doubt that Microsoft is in it for the long haul and I think that is a good thing

BRUSSELS, March 17 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) has offered remedies in an attempt to gain EU antitrust approval for its $69 billion acquisition of Activision (ATVI.O), a European Commission filing showed on Friday.

The EU competition enforcer, which did not provide details in line with its policy, will now seek feedback from rivals and customers before making its decision by May 22.

Microsoft President Brad Smith has said the U.S. software company was prepared to offer rivals licensing deals to ease competition concerns but not to selling Activision's lucrative "Call of Duty" franchise.

The company has in recent weeks signed agreements with three companies to bring "Call of Duty" to their platforms.

"We have stood behind our promise to bring Call of Duty to more gamers on more devices by entering into agreements to bring the game to the Nintendo console and cloud game streaming services offered by Nvidia, Boosteroid, and Ubitus," a spokesperson said.

"We are now backing up that promise with binding commitments to the European Commission, which will ensure that this deal benefits gamers into the future."

The company is likely to win EU clearance for the deal with such licensing deals and other behavioural remedies, sources have told Reuters while the jury is still out on whether the UK competition enforcer will do the same.

Microsoft Offers EU Remedies Seeking OK on Activision Deal | Reuters

Didn't know this would happen but it has been delayed from April 25th to May 22nd because of remedies being offered, Lol. I thought the latest deadline already took possible remedies into account in the schedule. 💀

Means UK is back to being the first to make a decision...

I must say I do find all of these delays, administrative dilly dallying, deliberations, and deliberations on deliberations frustrating. I know this is a large transaction but this has been over a year now since it was announced, and administrative review should not take this long

Wow, Lol.

Maybe not entirely surprising because Xbox is non-existent in Europe but still I'm glad EU saw through the crap.

Don't think it will matter much since CMA is still concerned about Console Gaming and they've said in their PF that they want the concessions to apply worldwide (which is funny because their PF only focuses on the UK market, if they want to act as a worldwide regulator then they should have worldwide facts too) but it ultimately doesn't matter, Microsoft will apply any UK concessions worldwide either way.

Plus even if there was no contract at all, Microsoft isn't taking CoD off PlayStation.

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