Apple’s Soccer Deal Might Ask Too Much of Lionel Messi

Larian has released a new hotfix for Baldur's Gate 3 that solves a game-breaking bug which was corrupting player saves.

The CMA has shared a new document explaining their logic behind their review of the Microsoft Activision deal.

Apple, by all accounts, is TSMC’s most lucrative client, which would mean that both entities would draft and sign exclusive deals that would not be available to any other company, with a recent report claiming that any defective 3nm wafers would not be billed to Apple, saving it billions. However, one analyst has refuted these claims, stating that the company is billed according to the finished goods.

The recent Pokemon Presents stream was a rather unremarkable, as many had predicted it would be, but The Pokemon Company did close it with an extended look at the ucoming two-part expansion for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, The Hidden Area of Treasure Zero. 

Among many new updates and features coming to the upcoming iPhone 15 Pro, one, in particular, will make it the world's most powerful smartphone for quite some time. That tag will be given to it by its A17 Bionic chipset which is expected to be a 3nm processor, according to reports. It is expected that the 3nm chipset will give Apple its biggest major performance and efficiency boost in a smartphone since 2020 when the company made a switch from its 7nm chipset to the current 5nm one. On top of that, Apple has struck a genius deal with TSMC that will make the latter its exclusive manufacturer of the chipset for the first year or so. However, the genius of the deal lies in the fact that the cost of any defective chipset manufactured during the process will be borne by TSMC. That may not sound like a big deal, but actually, it is.

Microsoft has convinced the EU that their Activision deal won’t change anything in PC gaming outside Windows, for a simple reason.

Today, after a long list of eight delays (called time extensions), the New Zealand Commerce Commission has officially cleared Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. That makes the Pacific Ocean island country the 42nd where the deal has been approved, although technically, the Federal Trade Commission may still continue to pursue its in-house judiciary process even after being defeated in federal court following the request for a preliminary injunction.

The Ultimate edition for PS5 also comes with Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered.

Destiny 2 is my favorite game of all time, and simultaneously, I absolutely hate it. This is a sentiment that is shared by many across the game’s community, and understandably so. The core of Destiny is just as fun as it has always been. Secret missions, raids, gunplay, art design, and sound leave very little room to complain about, yet it falls well short of the best monetization models — it is shockingly bad to the point many new players don’t want to engage with Destiny 2. 

I like self-imposed gaming challenges. A little while ago, I wrote about how Final Fantasy 14 streamer Pint gave himself the task of beating the world record for Kugane Tower, an accolade barely anybody cared about until he decided to turn it into his holy grail. Now it's a part of speedrunning history. 

Apple announced its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2023, which ended on July 1, 2023. The company reported a quarterly revenue of $81.8 billion, showing a 1 percent decrease compared to the same period last year. However, the quarterly earnings per diluted share stood at $1.26, marking a 5 percent increase from the previous year.

Splatoon and Mario Kart 8's Wii U servers abruptly went offline back in March of this year due to a security breach. Since Nintendo has been winding down support for its last-gen console, it may have been assumed the servers for those games might remain offline forever, but thankfully, that will not be the case. However, if they encounter this issue again, Nintendo has warned the servers might be shut down for good.