Microsoft and Sega have announced a "strategic alliance that explores ways for SEGA to produce large-scale, global games in a next-generation development environment built on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform." The news was announced earlier this morning, November 1 via a press release on the SEGA website.
The post confirms that this will play a significant part in SEGA's long term strategy moving forward, with Sega hoping to use Microsoft's Azure technologies for their "Super Game" initiative,
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