Microsoft has announced the first Xbox games that it will bring to the cloud gaming service “rival” Boosteroid, although it will be of little use with the CMA.
In its attempts to convince market regulators to approve its purchase of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft signed many deals with rival companies to commit to bringing their Xbox games to their service.
The best known is GeForce NOW from NVIDIA, which this week will receive Gears 5, as the first Xbox game that you can play through this streaming game service (you will have to buy it, yes, it is not part of the “catalog”, as is the case with the service itself from Microsoft, Game Pass Ultimate).
Another of the agreements he signed was with Boosteroida Ukrainian company that offers cloud gaming on PC and has 4 million users worldwide.
From the June 1Boosteroid users will be able to play Deathloop, Gears 5, Grounded and Pentiment, as long as you bought them from Steam or the Epic Games Store.
If you bought them from the Microsoft Store, support for playing them with Boosteroid will come later, as reported on Xbox NewsWire.
Xbox games are coming to the Boosteroid streaming game service
These games will be available to users in Ukraine, in the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.
If you have the games purchased on Steam or the Epic Store, you will be able to subscribe to Boosteroid (starting at 7.49 euros per month) to play them through the cloud in high quality, from any computer or device with internet (Windows, Linux, Android, Android TV, macOS, and other devices through browsers).
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They say it’s just the beginning, and in the future they’ll release more Xbox Game Studios games on Boosteroid (they signed a 10-year deal that would include future Activision Blizzard games, if they manage to complete the studio buyout).
Microsoft it also signed an equal agreement with Nware, a Spanish company. The aim is to show that they are not an impediment to competition in the emerging cloud gaming market, even if they buy Activision Blizzardalthough market regulators in the United Kingdom and the United States (and Sony) do not think so.
