Microsoft's web-based mobile game store opens in July

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Microsoft's web-based mobile game store opens in July
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In a couple of months, you'll be able to get Microsoft 's mobile games from its own store. Xbox President Sarah Bond hasat the Bloomberg Technology Summit that the company is launching a web-based store where you can download its mobile games and get add-ons or in-app purchases at a discount.

Microsoft will only host its own games to start with, which means it will feature a lot of titles from Activision Blizzard. If you'll recall, itthat this is "just the first step in journey to building a trusted app store with its roots in gaming." Microsoft plans to open the app store to third-party publishers in the future, though it didn't share a timeline for that goal.

Operators of third-party app stores will get to avoid some of the fees Google and Apple charge, but they'd still have to pay the companies for bypassing their mobile platforms' official stores. Both tech giants havewith the DMA regulations. The companies' rivals found the changes they're making insufficient, however, prompting the European Commission to

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