Microsoft claims that Sony has been paying video game developers to keep their games off the Xbox Game Pass subscription service offering, according to VGC.

As part of a document sent to Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) to justify its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the company claimed that Sony actively attempts to “inhibit growth” of Game Pass by trying to prevent content from landing on Game Pass.

“Microsoft’s ability to continue expanding Game Pass has been obstructed by Sony’s desire to inhibit such growth,” the company said in the documents. “Sony pays for ‘blocking rights’ to prevent developers from adding content to Game Pass and other competing subscription services.”

Additionally, Microsoft called Sony’s concern regarding the potential that Call of Duty could become an exclusive Xbox title “incoherent”, pointing to Sony’s own exclusivity strategies related to Playstation.

“It only reveals, once again, a fear about an innovative business model that offers high-quality content at low costs to gamers, threatening a leadership that has been forged from a device-centric and exclusivity-focused strategy over the years,” Microsoft said.

Playstation has issued a survey for players that attended EVO, asking about the type so NFTs they may be interested in purchasing, although it is currently unclear as to why the are asking about NFTs or what they will do with the information, according to IGN.

The NFT boom has permeated throughout a number of industries, including gaming and even marketing in NFT SEO, throughout 2022 after a meteoric boom in 2021 that saw financial numbers rocket to incredible milestone numbers.

Hey @wario64 a special PlayStation quest at EVO is asking players about what gaming NFTs they want to see from PlayStation. pic.twitter.com/Vwd5Q3cHn1

— Snorlax Ownz (@snorlaxownz) August 5, 2022

This coincides with an announcement last month regarding the Playstation Stars loyalty program, which immediately caused chatter as there was a mention of digital collectibles, with many connecting that with NFTs, but it wasn’t the case.

Time will tell what the purpose of this survey is.

Following a delay, Sloclap has finally announced a new release date for their hand-to-hand brawler action game’Sifu’.

The game is set to make it’s way to Playstation 4, PC, and Playstation 5 on February 8th.

The fighting game has a rather unique wrinkle, as every time you die in the game, you respawn a little bit older. You can check out a vide of the game below.