Microsoft and NVIDIA Sign Ten Year Deal for PC Games

Microsoft added NVIDIA to its gaming business partners today.

Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox, made the announcement today saying: We have signed a 10 year agreement with NVIDIA that will allow GeForce NOW players to stream Xbox PC games as well as Activision Blizzard PC titles, including COD, following the acquisition. We´re committed to bringing more games to more people – however they choose to play.

NVIDIA GeForce Now is NVIDIA’s Cloud-Gaming service. The service lets players stream their pre-existing games catalog to their PC. Xbox Game Pass will join the Epic Games Store, Steam, EA Play, and more services already included with GeForce Now.

This news broke the same day that Microsoft announced another deal to bring Call of Duty, Activision-Blizzard’s biggest gaming series, to Nintendo Switch consoles. All of these announcements contribute towards Microsoft’s pitch to buy Activision-Blizzard.

The U.S. tech giant went before EU regulators today to persuade the regulators to approve the massive sale, valued at $68.7 billion. Sony staunchly discourages the purchase, despite today’s progress.

European regulators lead a long list that Microsoft needs to persuade to complete the deal. The Federal Trade Commission in the U.S. also currently oppose the sale. Microsoft went as far as filing a formal complaint with the FTC to challenge their ruling on the sale.

All of this started early last year when Microsoft announced their plans to buy Activision-Blizzard.