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Sept 27 (Reuters) – Intel Corp plans to expand the Intel Developer Cloud to allow customers to try a range of new chips before they hit the market, a move it hopes will lure more application developers to use its processors, the company said on Tuesday.

Many popular games are free and make the majority of their money from paid addons, with figures showing £46bn was spent on in-game purchases in 2020.Figures also show more than 60 per cent of adults in the UK regularly play a game on a console or mobile phone. 

Intel on Tuesday at its developer conference also unveiled its 13th generation Intel Core desktop processor to help improve gaming experiences and the Intel Geti platform to help customers develop and use AI for computer vision. (Reporting By Jane Lanhee Lee; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)

‘This is the funfair, exactly like you don’t remember. With every game hooked up to innovative RFID wristband tech, and a bespoke app that logs gamers’ scores, tracks leader boards and takes bragging rights to a whole new level.’

It has been nearly seven months since the former UFC middleweight champion lost to rival Israel Adesanya in a very close fight – and the 31-year-old Aussie is excited to step back in the Octagon and remind the world why he’s the No.1 contender.

Neill, who runs consumer complaints website Resolver, said ‘the game is up’ for Sony.She said the case is particularly important as gaming is the biggest part of the UK’s entertainment industry – ahead of TV, video and music. 

«In some ways Intel is the biggest software company that you’ve never heard of,» said Nick McKeown, who leads Intel´s Network and Edge group, adding that there are over 20,000 software developers at Intel.

«Fear is the worst enemy, especially against the top teams, because this is what they use a lot of the time just to win football matches. You cannot go with any of that into Sunday’s game, the same as we didn’t when we played Spurs.» (Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

Neill said: ‘The drive towards in-game purchases allows companies like Sony to profiteer and abuse their power because they have a captive audience. Sony knows its customers are hooked once they are part of the PlayStation world and it exploits them with exorbitant charges on every digital purchase.’ 

Oct 8 (Reuters) – Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said his side could get a psychological boost for their Premier League campaign by beating Liverpool and extending their lead over the Merseyside club to 14 points when the two clash on Sunday.

Milberg partner Natasha Pearman, who is leading the case, said: ‘It [Sony] has deployed an anti-competitive strategy which has resulted in excessive prices to customers that are out of all proportion to the costs of Sony providing its services.’ 

Potential beneficiaries of the claim do not have to take action to be included.The case is funded by Woodsford, a team of litigation experts investing in large commercial claims, so those affected will not have to pay any of the costs of the action themselves. Sony was asked to comment.

The payout for each person in the claim is estimated to be between £67 and £562. Playstation, You Owe Us said the Japanese tech giant abused its dominant position in the gaming market and UK customers were ‘unfairly’ charged over the odds.Neill said: ‘With this legal action I am standing up for the millions of UK people who have been unwittingly overcharged. 

Meanwhile more than 90 per cent of ten to 16-year-olds play online games regularly. Campaign group ParentZone has claimed children feel under pressure to make ingame purchases and almost half believe games are only fun when spending money.

The lawsuit, led by consumer champion Alex Neill, claims Sony charged a 30 per cent commission on every digital game and in-game purchase made through the Playstation store – an online shop for consoles selling Pkv games and extra content to users. 

Whittaker has only ever lost two fights at middleweight in the UFC and both of them were to his heated rival Israel Adesanya. He believes he can win the third – he just needs to keep running up victories in the meantime to get a title shot.