The EU’s Digital Markets Act comes into affect in March next year and will force Apple and Google to allow users to download apps from sources beyond their own, official stores.
and Europe, and it’s likely that upcoming legislation in the latter will drive any developments here.
Microsoft’s $75B USD takeover bid of Activision Blizzard - the Santa Monica based creators of Call of Duty - is currently waiting to be cleared by regulators in the U.S., U.K. While a date has yet to be set, it’s likely this won’t come into effect before 2024. Because of this particular distinction, the Xbox app should be able to pass through Apple’s iOS certification and rules, unlike the ill-fated Game Pass streaming.Phil Spencer, chief executive of Microsoft Gaming, stated that the brand wants “to be in a position to offer Xbox and content from both us and our third-party partners across any screen where somebody would want to play” in a recent interview with the Financial Times, teasing that the tech giant’s huge games library may be natively available on competitors’ mobile devices soon. This isn’t the same as the Cloud Streaming from Xbox Game Pass – a separate but connected app – but streaming from the console you own. The app will also build in Remote Play streaming from Xbox consoles, finally enabling a long-promised feature. You’ll be able to set up a new console using the smartphone app, for example, any time you hit the Share button, you’ll be able to then watch it and decide how you want to share it from the app, and there’s all the messaging, achievement and other features you’d expect. Currently in a beta release, it will adopt the new UI design that is coming to all current Xbox consoles alongside the launch of the Xbox Series X | S, and is intended to have deeper connections to the consoles. This is all part of Microsoft’s revamped Xbox app for mobile. That day one Destiny 2 disc? Well, it’s literally just an unlock key. Yes, they come stuffed with 50GB of data (or more on next-gen), but you have to install games to the console hard drive and games often transform and expand dramatically through patches. Essentially, it’s formalising the role that discs have had for much of the current generation.
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