Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Tuesday, February 21st,

2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Microsoft tries again to convince people it won't hoard call of duty as an Xbox exclusive.

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Looks like they're still trying to push this one over the line. Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company signed a binding 10-year contract to bring

Call of Duty Games to Nintendo consoles on the same day as Xbox.

Quoting GeekWire.

Microsoft President Brad Smith tweeted late Monday that the agreement first announced in December is now binding.

Quote, this is just part of our commitment to bring Xbox games and

Activision titles like Call of Duty to more players on more platforms, Smith said in his

tweet.

Call of Duty will be available to Nintendo players on the same day as Xbox games, quote,

with full feature and content parity, according to Microsoft's statement.

The deal is part of Microsoft's effort to help convince regulators to approve the acquisition of Activision.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is attempting to block the deal,

and Microsoft is facing similar headwinds in Europe.

Reuters reported that Smith and other executives will speak to EU antitrust

regulators at a closed hearing this week about the deal. Microsoft laid out its case

against the FTC in December describing itself as quote the third place manufacturer of

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