EU Wants To Know If Microsoft Will Block Rivals After Activision Deal

The questionnaire, with about 100 questions, asked which of the rivals such as Nvidia's GeForce Now, Sony's Playstation, Google Stadia, Amazon Luna and Facebook Gaming could be considered the most attractive following the deal.

'The game where the player suppresses an uprising of an oppressed race who are pushing back against their own disenfranchisement, disarmament, slavery, and murder, in order to maintain the supremacy of the dominant culture. 

'Rather than offering magazines designed to cater for mass consumption, there has been a razor-sharp focus on creating respected content on specialist subjects, such as gaming, which has been a big draw for advertising partners.'

A note on the game's website says: 'JK Rowling is not involved in the creation of the game, but as creator of the wizarding world and one of the world's greatest storytellers, her extraordinary body of writing is the foundation of all projects in the Wizarding World. 
They asked if such exclusivity clauses would reinforce Microsoft's Windows operating system versus rivals, and whether the addition of Activision to its PC operating system, cloud computing services and game-related software tools gives it an advantage in the video gaming industry.

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'We recently suffered a network intrusion in which an unauthorized third party illegally accessed and downloaded confidential information from our systems, including early development footage for the next Grand Theft Auto,' Rockstar said in a statement. 

Her pay has attracted criticism, however. At Future's past two shareholder meetings, it has faced significant rebellions over a bonus package which could net Byng-Thorne, already one of Britain's best paid chief executives, up to £40million.

The hacker, who also claims to be behind a cyber incident at Uber last week, posted a message on the forum about seeking to 'negotiate a deal' with Take-Two Interactive Software, owner of Rockstar, which publishes the GTA games. 

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PlayStation has told gamers that they will be able to 'decide the fate' of the magical universe, and will 'encounter missions and scenarios that will pose difficult choices and determine what they stand for'.

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Regulators also wanted to know if there would be sufficient alternative suppliers in the market following the deal and also in the event Microsoft decides to make Activision's pkv Games exclusively available on its Xbox, its Games Pass and its cloud game streaming services.

Roddy Davidson, from Shore Capital, said Byng-Thorne and her team deserve 'a lot of credit' for their turnaround of the business. And she has been rewarded handsomely, taking home £35.6million in the past eight years.

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oment. "In order to offer unique entertainment to a wide range of customers, we want to avoid pricing people out," President Shuntaro Furukawa told the Nikkei business daily in an article published earlier t

But the 'magazine queen' - as she has been dubbed - has since transformed the publisher into a £2.2billion empire of 250 titles including everything from Country Life and Marie Claire to TechRadar and FourFourTwo.

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Gamers have decided to boycott a new Harry Potter release in an 'anti-Semitism' row over its 'Goblin Rebellion' plot which offers players the chance to battle 'oppressed race who are fighting against their own slavery'.

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world. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has recommended raising the console's retail price in Europe, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, Mexico and Canada, the company's top official Jim

The EU competition enforcer also asked if Activision's trove of user data would give the U.S. software giant a competitive advantage in the development, publishing and distribution of computer and console games, the EU document shows.