Sept 15 (Reuters) – Britain’s antitrust watchdog said on Thursday it would launch an in-depth probe into Xbox maker Microsoft’s $69-billion purchase of «Call of Duty» maker Activision Blizzard after the tech giant failed to offer remedies to soothe competition concerns.

phone. First introduced in 2016, the Pixel was a late-comer to the portable phone trend, arriving nearly a decade after Apple’s iPhone and seven years after Samsung’s Galaxy model, the two products that dominate today

«There is massive amounts of data and use cases coming from blockchain technology’s multi-chain world, and insights and data from centralized data stores … and Space and Time sits at the bridge that links them,» Holiday said.

Look at all this Koopa muscle I’ve packed on, and this flowing mane didn’t just appear overnight. Do you have any idea how long it took me to breathe fire?’ he joked. ‘I had to go learn it from Gene Simmons of Kiss! 

nalys. Maurice Klaehne of Counterpoint Research said that «Google certainly has the capability and resources to become a major smartphone player, but that is not Pixel’s strategy,» noting that growing Android remains Google’s main

PlayStation has told gamers that they will be able to ‘decide the fate’ of the magical universe, and will ‘encounter missions and pkvgames scenarios that will pose difficult choices and determine what they stand for’.

We want to guarantee PlayStation gamers continue to have the highest quality gaming experience, and we appreciate the CMA´s focus on protecting gamers.» (Reporting by Amna Karimi and Radhika Anilkumar in Bengaluru and Foo Yun Chee in Brussels; Editing by Vinay Dwivedi and Susan Fenton)

nalys. Google has instead focused on boosting its Android operating system, which was launched in 2008 and included more than 80 percent of the smartphones sold in the first half of 2022, according t

Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said earlier this month the takeover of the videogame publisher maker could hurt competition in gaming consoles, subscription services and cloud gaming if Microsoft refused to give competitors access to Activision’s best-selling games.

«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)

Reuters previously reported that Microsoft would pay a $3 billion break-up fee if the deal falls through, according to a source familiar with the matter, suggesting the company was confident of winning antitrust approval.

tions. Those paltry sales figures are partly due to the Google phone’s limited availability, with the Pixel 5 sold in less than 10 countries as the tech giant has focused its smartphone investment on software rather than its own

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‘We have been working on this movie, together with Chris Meledandri from Illumination, for a long time, from brainstorming and all the way through production. The time flew by as we were having fun figuring out how to depict the Super Mario characters and world.’

dware. While Google’s phones are comparable in terms of quality to the top sellers, the product «has often lacked backing from Google» in terms of marketing, said Runar Bjørhovde, a research analyst at market research fir

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.

‘It’s been nearly 40 years since the first original Mario Brothers was released in Japan,’ he said in a video which aired before the sneak peek. ‘Today, lots of people from around the world are playing Mario games.

This is not the first film adaptation of the beloved video games, with a live-action film starring Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo released in 1993. However the film, Super Mario Bros., bombed at the box office and opened to dire reviews. 

Sept 27 (Reuters) – Space and Time, a decentralized data analytics platform, secured $20 million in funding from a group of investors led by Microsoft venture capital arm M12, valuing the company at $300 million.

The company, which aims to run analytics on data stored on blockchain as well as outside of it for smart contracts, plans to use the funding to hire more engineers, said Nate Holiday, co-founder, Space and Time.

Gamers have decided to boycott a new Harry Potter release in an ‘anti-Semitism’ row over its ‘Goblin Rebellion’ plot which offers players the chance to battle ‘oppressed race who are fighting against their own slavery’.