Microsoft said on Thursday that it will release four of its video games on competing consoles. Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft’s gaming division, said in a company video that the decision is “not a change to our kind of fundamental exclusive strategy.” Nevertheless, the shift signals a willingness to generate more revenue from content that previously could only be played on Microsoft’s own gaming hardware. Microsoft completed the acquisition of prominent video game publisher Activision Blizza...

Microsoft said on Thursday that it will release four of its video games on competing consoles. Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft’s gaming division, said in a company video that the decision is “not a change to our kind of fundamental exclusive strategy.” Nevertheless, the shift signals a willingness to generate more revenue from content that previously could only be played on Microsoft’s own gaming hardware. Microsoft completed the acquisition of prominent video game publisher Activision Blizza...