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The European Commission has found that both Apple and Meta have breached the Digital Markets Act, and have received fines totalling €700,000,000.In Apple's case, the breach was related to a violation of anti-steering rules, and the associated fine was set at €500 million—whereas Meta was found in breach of an obligation to give consumers the choice of a service that uses less of their personal data, resulting in a €200...
Music has always been instrumental in Shinichirō Watanabe’s anime (pun intended). More than just merely background music, every soundtrack featured across Watanabe’s body of work is inextricable from the identity of each of his series, from the big band jazz and rock of Cowboy Bebop to the lo-fi boom bap beats of Samurai Champloo. Lazarus, the latest sci-fi action thriller anime from Watanabe that premiered earlier this month, is no...
Last week, we asked you head to the great outdoors (inside your favorite games) and share nature-filled moments using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: Mur4dQ shares Astro Bot and a cow napping in a meadow PattyGnand shares the girls of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage dangling their legs over a lakeside overlook Amianan_NiRaGuB shares the Shadow-cursed lands of Baldur’s Gate 3 cenrice shares riding alongside a reflective mountainside...
Epic Games has been fighting a crypto and metaverse company called Utherverse over patent infringement since 2021. Utherverse filed a lawsuit in June 2021 saying that Epic Games infringed on several of its patents related to people hanging out in big, virtual worlds with its Fortnite concert series — specifically, Ariana Grande and Travis Scott’s respective in-game performances. In January 2022, Epic Games filed a counterclaim wherein it says it...
Hoyoverse just wrapped up the Genshin Impact version 5.6 preview livestream, showing off all sorts of details about the upcoming patch. Most importantly, there were several codes that award Primogems and other rewards shown during the stream. Our Genshin Impact 5.6 livestream code list provides you with the three stream codes for rewards and explains how to redeem them. We’re actually heading back to Mondstadt this patch, seeing what’s up...
It’s hardly a surprise, but it was worth confirming: the Nintendo Switch 2 won’t have achievements. When Polygon asked Nintendo’s vice president of player and product experience Bill Trinen if Nintendo was about to change its ways and introduce the ubiquitous progress trackers, he returned a simple, one-syllable answer: “Nope.” At this late stage — 20 years after Microsoft debuted its Gamerscore achievement system on Xbox 360 — it seems...
Hello from id Software! This is Hugo Martin, game director on Doom: The Dark Ages, releasing May 15 on PlayStation 5—it’s right around the corner, I can’t believe it. If you’ve been following along, you already know that Doom: The Dark Ages is a premium single-player campaign featuring three core pillars of engagement: story, combat, and exploration. I’m guessing you’re reading this because you want to hear something new, something...
Horror movies are constantly calling out for experimentation; it’s a whole genre based around rules that are just waiting to be bent, twisted, or broken into a brand-new shape. Which is exactly why it’s such a shame that so many new horror movies are just slight variations on the same old ideas. But just last year we got two truly original horror movies — Azrael and In a Violent Nature...
Making cool electronics is often a damn fiddly process requiring hand eye coordination at a microscale. This isn't helped by the fact that components continue to get smaller and more complicated, thanks a lot Moore. The benefit of this progression in tech is we can make grander things in little packages. Some of which might have been completely out of the individual's ability before due to price or availability as...
World of Warcraft's latest patch launched Tuesday in North America, and players are still encountering massive, gamebreaking delays and bugs in nearly every aspect of the update more than 48 hours later.Originally, the 11.1.5 content update appeared to be packed with new features: A new faction to grind and related rewards to earnThe return of Battle for Azeroth's Horrific Visions scenarios, and their massive power-boosting Corruptions in the form of...