{"id":48145,"date":"2022-08-10T21:33:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/uncategorized\/microsoft-claims-sony-pays-developers-blocking-rights-to-keep-games-off-xbox-game-pass\/"},"modified":"2022-08-10T22:10:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T22:10:20","slug":"microsoft-claims-sony-pays-developers-blocking-rights-to-keep-games-off-xbox-game-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/news\/microsoft-claims-sony-pays-developers-blocking-rights-to-keep-games-off-xbox-game-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft claims Sony pays developers &#8220;blocking rights&#8221; to keep games off Xbox Game Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/microsoft-claims-sony-pays-developers-blocking-rights-to-keep-games-off-xbox-game-pass_62f42ccbdcb38.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/microsoft-claims-sony-pays-developers-blocking-rights-to-keep-games-off-xbox-game-pass_62f42ccbdcb38.jpeg 690w, https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/microsoft-claims-sony-pays-developers-blocking-rights-to-keep-games-off-xbox-game-pass_62f42ccbdcb38-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIn a lengthy document submitted to the Brazilian government as part of its investigation into Microsoft&#8217;s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft has claimed Sony pays developers &#8220;blocking rights&#8221; to prevent games from appearing on Xbox Game Pass.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/microsoft-claims-sony-pays-developers-blocking-rights-to-keep-games-off-xbox-game-pass\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft claims Sony pays developers &#8220;blocking rights&#8221; to keep games off Xbox Game\u00a0Pass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48148,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48145\/revisions\/48148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}