The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which has been investigating Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, has issued a major update on the case. Government agencies have been hearing from Microsoft and Sony on whether this will reduce competition in the gaming industry. Basically, each side presented their arguments in support of ...
The current UK government, which has had its third prime minister since 2019 and is being rocked by a combination of scandal and gross, malicious incompetence, is face an uphill battle to simply avoid total destruction at the next general election, let alone win. So what better time for one of its key services to ...
From next Monday, October 24, our iPhone will be able to emit a high-pitched beep in addition to displaying a notification with its corresponding text. A bit strange behavior that is actually quite simple: the government is testing the new ES-Alert alert system. ES-Alert is a mechanism through which the General Directorate for Civil Protection ...
picture: Kotaku / Unit Popular video game engine Unity has had a lot of bad press over the past year, the result of things like mass layoffs and some really awful comments from its CEO. Today, the trend continues as it was recently announced that the company has signed a new three-year, multi-million dollar deal ...
A little less than a year ago, we announced that Europe was preparing an alert system for mobile devices in order to be able to warn the population in the event of a disaster. Almost a year later, the first tests are already underway and some users are receiving the first alerts, although these are ...
picture: Ubisoft Since centuries the French Academy basically oversaw the entire French language and was responsible for everything from grammar to publishing French dictionaries to serving as the “official authority on the language”. An important part of this role in recent decades has been to ward off the slow invasion of slang and jargon from ...
It was well known that the CMA (UK Competition and Markets Authority) had their eyes on Nintendo and PlayStation for “irregularities” in the way they handled subscription systems like Switch Online and PS Plus. Following an investigation, both companies have agreed to change their practices. These will be the changes implemented not only for users ...
image: Nintendo / Kotaku The US government suggested to a federal judge on Thursday that Nintendo hacker and modder Gary Bowser receive five years in prison after he pled guilty to two charges involving the selling and creation of mod chips that could allow people to play pirated games on their Nintendo Switch. As spotted ...
photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) When Tesla added to its growing list of dashboard touchscreen games last winter, the update inexplicably allowed drivers to play them while the electric car was on the move. Almost a year later, the US government finally asked the company why. “We are aware of the concerns of drivers and ...
Related news While we already have a new widget for Google News, and we knew in February of this year that the app could come back, the executive has today approved a royal decree which allows his return to Europe. These were intense months of negotiations between the American business, media and the Department of ...
