{"id":800433,"date":"2023-08-22T10:31:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T10:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2023\/08\/22\/activision-to-sell-streaming-rights-to-ubisoft-to-secure-microsoft-deal\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T10:31:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T10:31:47","slug":"activision-to-sell-streaming-rights-to-ubisoft-to-secure-microsoft-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2023\/08\/22\/activision-to-sell-streaming-rights-to-ubisoft-to-secure-microsoft-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Activision to sell streaming rights to Ubisoft to secure Microsoft deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft said on Tuesday that its acquisition target Activision would sell its non-European streaming rights to Ubisoft Entertainment as part of a restructured transaction to get it past British regulators.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) remains the only regulator to block the biggest ever deal in video gaming, forcing Microsoft to come up with a new proposal to complete the $69 billion purchase of &#8220;Call of Duty&#8221; maker Activision.<\/p>\n<p>The CMA said on Tuesday it stood by its original decision to block the deal.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the two companies have proposed new terms, with Activision&#8217;s cloud streaming rights outside of the European Economic Area being divested to Ubisoft for all current and future Activision PC and console games released during the next 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The terms of the transaction will allow Ubisoft to commercialise these rights to other cloud gaming services providers (including to Microsoft itself),&#8221; the CMA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft said on Tuesday that its acquisition target Activision would sell its non-European streaming rights to Ubisoft Entertainment as part of a restructured transaction to get it past British regulators. Britain&#8217;s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) remains the only regulator to block the biggest ever deal in video gaming, forcing Microsoft to come up with a new proposal to complete the $69 billion purchase of &#8220;Call of Duty&#8221; maker Activision. The CMA said on Tuesday it stood by its original decision to block the deal. As a result, the two companies have proposed new terms, with Activision&#8217;s cloud streaming rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}