Insiders who spoke to the New York Post said that Microsoft didn’t anticipate this scrutiny from market regulators. It and Activision Blizzard are really in strife behind the scenes despite both businesses’ assertions that the merger will close due to the mounting pressure. Currently, the Call of Duty franchise’s exclusivity is the main issue. Microsoft has already said that this game brand would not be kept exclusive to PlayStation, but they would also not be required by law to do so....

Sony warned last month that the proposed arrangement may persuade users to move from PlayStation to Xbox to the Brazilian regulatory agency CADE, which, like many other territories, is now reviewing the proposed partnership for clearance. Microsoft has now responded to CADE with a 27-page acquisition-related document to refute Sony’s assertions. Microsoft states in the study that while several third parties, such as Ubisoft and Bandai Namco, responded to CADE, Sony was the only business to declare that Call of Duty was in a category all its own with no rivals....

Microsoft is constantly working to bring new capabilities to Windows 10 Your Phone App to make it a bit more feature complete. Now it seems like the company is planning to bring the ability to share files right from your desktop. In the latest build, some insiders spotted a new folder named “ContentTransfer” that is meant to introduce the functionality within Your Phone app. Once enabled, it would probably allow you to send and receive files to/from your contacts....

Resident Evil Games are Coming to the Nintendo Switch! At first glance, you might become excited at the fact that CAPCOM is bringing its most recent titles to the Nintendo Switch but then one wonders how hardware-intensive games the likes of CAPCOM’s recent Resident Evil iterations will run on the Switch in the first place. Well, it’s all thanks to Nintendos Cloud Streaming service. The games will run on the Nintendo Switch via online streaming that’s been pretty commonplace in the modern gaming industry....

Kieran Crimmins, creative director of Need for Speed Unbound, recently discussed the Burnout series in an interview with Eurogamer. Crimmins stated that a new Burnout is “not the next game they’re working on,” confirming that Criterion Games has no immediate intentions to return to the franchise. Despite this, Crimmins stated his desire to work on a new game and claimed that the studio has “the most passion” for Need for Speed and Burnout....

An Overview A leaked initial configuration shows us that the RTX 4060 is powered by the AD106 GPU featuring 4352 Cuda Cores. Whereas, the -Ti variant features NVIDIA’s AD104 chip while boasting an impressive 6656 Cuda Cores. Performance Metrics Lets get straight to the benchmarks, shall we? QBitLeaks shares that the RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti have been ‘allegedly’ tested. The keyword here is ‘allegedly‘, we’ll get onto that in a bit....

RTX 4070 Ti While showcasing a box for NVIDIA’s RTX 4070 Ti, MEGAsizeGPU also gave us a seemingly confirmed release date. Apart from the release date, no price has been specified. — MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang) November 10, 2022 CES 2023 will take place just one day prior to this specified date. Therefore, it appears that NVIDIA will be announcing and launching these GPUs on the same day. What’s weird is that we still do not know much about the RTX 4070, which is expected to launch earlier than the 4070 Ti....

4080 Already Available Over laptopsdirect, the RTX 4080 is listed for purchase with deliveries starting 3 weeks from today. The GPUs in question are Palit’s RTX 4080 GameRock OC/non-OC and OmniBlack. Similarly, you can also purchase these GPUs on installments starting from £47 ($55) a month. Without any doubt, the pricing is extremely high even for a custom variant. The RTX 4090 is currently suffering the same fate being priced at £1929 ($2240)....

— Mukul Sharma (@stufflistings) December 21, 2022 At the AnTuTu benchmarking site, the OnePlus 11 was able to score 1341080 points, proving that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is the most powerful chipset that is currently on the market. The chipset’s performance was boosted by the inclusion of 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 512GB of UFS4.0 storage. When talking about the last gen OnePlus 10 Pro, a comparison between the old and new platforms’ CPU results reveals, for instance, a difference of around 295,000 points for the former....

On March 19th, Oppo will present their new flagship phone called Oppo Find 7. Not only does it look beautiful, but it will also feature some awesome specs that most Android fans will love. The phone reportedly will be available in two versions, and here’s what we expect to see next week: Oppo Find 7 1080p Specs 5.5 inch 1080p display 13MP camera 4,000 mAH removable battery Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor 2 GB RAM 16 GB internal storage MicroSD card slot...

How does this flagship phone fare when thoroughly tested? Oppo Find X5 Pro’s camera array sits in a raised, irregularly shaped section that appears to have been sculpted out of the chassis rather than being fitted into a cut-hole, as is more commonly the case. This moulded method was discussed in our Oppo Find X3 Pro review from last year. X5 Pro is the successor to the X4 line, as Oppo has dropped the X4....

Ryzen 7000 Heating Issues At 100% load, the 7950X is at 95.4C which is much higher than even Intel’s i9-12900K. Fret not, for this is not life threatening to the CPU but still alarming for many. Zen4 was architecturally designed to handle such high temperatures. One can thank the additional power consumption for these insane numbers. The R9 7950X at ~5.75GHz consumes round about 250W of power. This is much higher than any number AMD has proposed in the past few years....

Apart from regular upgrades, there is a dedicated Galaxy S10 variant with 5G connectivity. Other than the 5G variant, there are three models of the S20 series including the standard Galaxy S20, S20 Plus (successor of S10 Plus), and the premium S20 Ultra. Despite being the standard variant the S20 is bringing tons of goodies which differentiates it from the rest of the market. It is the company’s first flagship with a 120Hz display, top-tier hardware, superb camera setup, and a larger battery than the predecessor....

Thankfully a new report from Sammobile sheds some light on this decision, and why Samsung wasn’t that keen on a Fan Edition device this year. Like any other smartphone manufacturer, Samsung has been hit hard by the ongoing chip shortage. This has forced the company to rationalise their recent offerings and focus on more profitable products. The company is also grappling with a massive inventory build up across it’s entire product line, specially their entry level offerings....

Several new and returning characters, such as Tails, Amy, and Big the Cat, as well as enemies, bosses, and levels are shown off in the latest trailer. New trailers, gameplay footage, and impressions have changed the game’s perception from cautious in June to optimistic now. Many fans are now looking forward to the release of Sonic Frontiers with great anticipation, however, some remain concerned about the game’s overall quality. Furthermore, Reddit users are talking about a Switch ROM of the complete game....

How to Embed Audio to Google Drive ? Hooray ! Google might have listened to our requests and introduced the very much preferred option to embed audio files in Google Drive. Now we can insert audio files to our google slides. It can be voice recording, songs, music, any sort of sound effect or any narration, any type of audio you have access or you want to create. Make yourself clear about it that this feature only allows you to insert the audio and not create the audio file....

Sonic Frontiers Release Date Leaked Accidentally… Sonic Frontiers is also coming to Gamescom 2022 as a part of the Opening Night Live 2022 show. Fans will also get to try out the game at the event as stated by the lead producer of the Sonic Team, Takashi Iizuka. The game is now expected to release on November 8, 2022, thanks to the unplanned announcement of the release date. Sonic is a pretty big thing in Japan, and the Sega company, too, for that matter....

More at PS Blog: https://t.co/NAahfCCIg7 pic.twitter.com/IEtUunqf2X — PlayStation (@PlayStation) November 2, 2022 Sony has already shown off some of the titles that will be included with this new VR gear, like Horizon Call of the Mountain, and Resident Evil Village, among others. According to PlayStation Blog, Crossfire: Sierra Squad, The Light Brigade, Cities VR – Enhanced Edition, Cosmonious High, Hello Neighbor: Search and Rescue, Jurassic World Aftermath Collection, Pistol Whip VR, Zenith: The Last City, After the Fall, and Tentacular are the eleven new titles that will be added to the platform at launch....

Interestingly 7 games out of the 17 are already released. Genshin Impact being one of them, released in 2020, was backed by Sony through a deal in 2019 between Sony Interactive Entertainment Shanghai Subsidiary and Shanghai miHoYo Network Technology Co., Ltd, the developer studio behind Genshin Impact. Genshin Impact was an instant hit upon release and became the most profitable game of the world. It was the most successful product of the China Hero Project, and according to Tatsuo Eguchi, president of SIE Shanghai, the greater interest of Sony in the Chinese gaming industry is the result of the success of the strong going partnership between miHoYo Network and Sony and ultimately the success of Genshin Impact in a short period....

However, this also means that finding a gaming mouse is even more difficult than before. Despite that, if you’re looking for an ambidextrous and lightweight gaming mouse, the Sensei 10 is worth taking a look at. It has a lot going for it, and it could be an easy purchase even in this crowded market. This mouse is based on the original Sensei mouse that was released in 2009. It has the same shape and returns here after a decade....