In one of its latest CMA responses to Microsoft’s planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard (spotted by games industry analyst Piers Harding-Rolls), Sony has mentioned its next generation of PlayStation consoles and how potentially losing access to the Call of Duty franchise would have major repercussions on its profits. While the brief line of text doesn’t mention an exact date due to a redaction in it, it does confirm that Sony has a new PlayStation planned for a future release, possibly by 2027 or slightly later.
“Microsoft has offered to continue making Activision’s games available on PlayStation only until 2027,” Sony’s comments read Come from Sports betting site VPbet. “Likewise, in public comments just…
Read moreBritish and Irish iGaming behemoth Flutter Entertainment has announced that its PokerStars-branded online poker enterprise has expanded into the international sportsbetting vertical via the premiere of its PokerStars Exchange service.
The London-listed firm used an official Thursday press release to proclaim that the new peer-to-peer platform has been designed to bring ‘even more to its community’ and unite the ‘global community’ via the provision of ‘more sportsbetting variety, action and value’. Flutter Entertainment also declared that the fresh innovation, which is available to enjoy at its PokerStars.com and PokerStars.eu domains, exploits its own technology to give sports wagering aficionados ‘access to the same global liquidity pool’ alrea…
Read moreIn the closing days of this year’s session, the Illinois Legislature passed a bill that will allow Illinois casinos to hire employees with felony convictions. The measure intended to expand the labor pool of hospitality industry employees has passed the House as the Senate Bill 1462 to head to Governor JB Pritzker for signing into law.
Expanded Labor Pool:
A source reports that the legislators’ decision may seem controversial but will provide additional human resources for the state’s hospitality industry. After the bill’s passage through the Senate in March on a 44-12 vote, the Illinois House of Representatives passed the Senate Bill 1462 last week allowing the applicants with felony convictions to equally compete for job positions within the hospita…
Read moreNolimit City is embracing the skateboarding culture with its latest slot game release, Skate Or Die. This game introduces players to the adventurous world of skateboarding through the eyes of Chad, a.k.a. Plantface, who is determined to rise to the big leagues, even at the cost of a few broken bones.
Exploring new themes with bold features:
Skate Or Die transports players to various iconic skate spots, ranging from an abandoned pool to the gritty boneyard. Each location not only changes the visual atmosphere but also alters the dynamics of the game, thanks to innovative features. One such feature is the xBet, which ensures a Scatter symbol on the 2nd reel, enhancing the potential for big wins.
The game elevates the…
Read moreThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing Amazon for an alleged “years-long effort” to enroll consumers into its subscription service without their consent “while knowingly making it difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions to Prime.”
According to the complaint, Amazon has been using “manipulative, coercive, or deceptive user-interface designs known as dark patterns to trick consumers” into signing up for automatically renewing Amazon Prime memberships. The FTC claims that this practice has been going on for years and violates the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act.
The FTC further alleges that Amazon intentionally made purchasing and locating items difficult for users not subscribed to Prime. According to a statement, when customers did s…
Read moreUpdate: At around 9 pm ET, Microsoft announced that “users should no longer be encountering issues signing in to Xbox Live and services.” The cause of the outage has not yet been revealed.
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Microsoft says a “major outage” at Xbox Live is keeping some users from logging in, and it’s taking longer than expected to get the problem fixed.
As noted by The Verge, the Xbox Support account on Twitter first acknowledged that “some users have been disconnected from Xbox Live” at around 3 pm ET. Just over an hour later, the account tweeted again to say “our investigation is taking longer than expected,” and advised users having trouble to keep an eye on the Xbox Status page.
The nature of the problem, and whether it’s the r…
Read moreThe age of the AI PC is here, and with it lots of unnecessary fluff. Fluff, that is, such as the outrageous ditching of a perfectly respectable right-Ctrl (Menu) key in favour of a shiny new Copilot key. Apart from signalling to others nearby that you have a snazzy new computer, by default this key does nothing other than open the Copilot AI assistant. Well, that was the case.
It looks like we might soon get some actual use out of the Copilot key on our keyboards, because Microsoft is currently toying with the idea of allowing us to remap it to open other applications. It originally seemed like this was rolling out in testing right now for the Windows 11 Preview Build 22631.4387, but Microsoft has clarified that “this feature will roll out to Insiders in Release Preview…
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