EA finally listens: Battlefield 6 scraps a decade-old requirement on Steam — a major win for new players and veteran fans

Nowadays, we have a variety of digital distribution platforms leading the way, such as Battle.net and Steam being pioneers. We also have newer ones like the Epic Games Store, Ubisoft Connect, Electronic Arts’ desktop app, GOG, and many more. In fact, there are even launchers specifically designed for individual games, like Minecraft, Escape from Tarkov, Black Desert Online, Warframe, and so on.

As Microsoft posts $75B in Azure revenue, UK’s CMA says “competition is not working well”

According to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), “the current competition structure isn’t functioning optimally,” and they have proposed solutions to address this issue. In their investigation, an independent CMA panel concluded that the cloud services market is excessively concentrated, with Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) holding significant dominance, each accounting for approximately 40% of the market share.