U.S. gamers filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft in a federal district court in San Francisco, California, from the private sector, alleging that the acquisition of Activision Blizzard would harm fair competition and that the court should block it. Microsoft will also reportedly defend its deal in a court hearing this Friday. U.S. gamers reportedly filed a petition for an injunction, which would block Microsoft's acquisition. On Friday, federal district court judge Jacqueline Corley will evaluate the application. If Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard as it wishes, it would be the largest merger ever in the world's gaming market. Microsoft explained that the acquisition would be beneficial to gamers, and its legal team previously asked Judge Corley to deny the gamer plaintiffs' motion for an injunction. Court documents show that Microsoft's legal team told Judge Colleen on May 5 that the gamer plaintiffs' claims in the lawsuit were unprecedented and that no court in the history of U.S. law had ever blocked an acquisition deal based on the alleged losses of a few consumers. The Microsoft acquisition was announced in January 2022 and has since sparked an uproar, with antitrust authorities in the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and other countries and regions reviewing the deal. In April, the U.K. government's antitrust agency announced that it would veto the deal because Microsoft was unable to address concerns that the gaming industry was "harming competition" in the market. The U.S. antitrust agency, the Federal Trade Commission, has also launched an investigation into the deal, but has yet to reach…

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Apple's first Apple Retail Store, the Tysons Corner Store in Fairfax, Virginia, opened Friday, May 19, marking the retailer's 22nd anniversary.Apple's new retail store, also located in the shopping center, just moved to a new location, will feature inclusive, innovative and sustainable design enhancements that "reflect Apple's values. Apple's press release reads: "Since opening our first Apple Retail Store here 22 years ago, we're proud to open this newly conceived space. It's been a testament to our journey along the way. We couldn't have done it without the help of our community. The Apple Apple Store led the way for a new model of offline sales when Apple opened retail stores in Tysons Corner, Virginia, and Glendale, California, on May 19, 2001, to showcase products including computers, software, iPod Walkman and more. Steve Jobs conducted the demonstrations himself.

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Apple currently has a "problem" that many companies are looking at - too much cash. For AAPL investors, this means that Apple will start a massive buyback and a healthy dividend in the coming years.Apple reported cash flow from operations of $28.6 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2023, which ended April 1. Apple spent $19.1 billion to repurchase 129 million shares of AAPL stock and paid $3.7 billion in dividends to investors. Tech media outlet Morningstar sees the abundance of cash as a good thing on the one hand, which means the company has enough flexibility to innovate and stay competitive by investing in it, and on the other hand, the more cash a company has on its balance sheet and just collects interest on it, which is often seen by investors as an inefficient use of capital. Apple currently has a "problem" that many companies are looking at - too much cash. For AAPL investors, this means that Apple will start a massive buyback and a healthy dividend in the coming years.Apple reported cash flow from operations of $28.6 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2023, which ended April 1. Apple spent $19.1 billion to repurchase 129 million shares of AAPL stock and paid $3.7 billion in dividends to investors. Tech media outlet Morningstar sees the abundance of cash as a good thing on the one hand, which means the company has enough flexibility to innovate and stay competitive by investing in it, and on the other hand, the more cash a company has on its…

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Starting May 29, 2023, some imported Model S, Model X, Model 3 and China-made Model 3 and Model Y vehicles with production dates between January 12, 2019 and April 24, 2023 are recalled, totaling 1104622 units. The vehicles included in this recall do not allow the driver to select an energy recovery braking strategy and may not provide sufficient warning to the driver if the accelerator pedal is depressed deeply for an extended period of time. The combination of the above factors may increase the probability of long-time misuse of the accelerator pedal, which may increase the risk of collision and pose a safety hazard. The announcement said that the recall activity was carried out under the defect investigation initiated by the State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration. As a result of the investigation, Tesla Motors (Beijing) Co., Ltd. and Tesla (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. plan to push newly developed functions for the vehicles in the recall area through the vehicle remote upgrade (OTA) technology to reduce the risk of collision caused by excessive speed due to prolonged deep pressing of the accelerator pedal. The features include: (1) Providing options to allow drivers to select energy recovery braking intensity on vehicles that do not have energy recovery braking intensity selection; (2) Adjusting the factory default state of the vehicle's energy recovery braking strategy; (3) Alerting the driver when the accelerator pedal is depressed deeply for an extended period of time. Tesla Motors (Beijing) Co., Ltd. and Tesla (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. will notify relevant owners by registered mail and text message…

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GEO Holdings, the operator of DLsite, has announced a ban on the upload and sale of illustrations generated using AI art tools such as Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. This is the latest user-generated content platform to introduce such a ban, following similar decisions by sites like PixivFANBOX. DLsite claims that the ban was prompted by concerns about the legality of AI-generated content and the need to protect the creator's environment. We decided to suspend the sale of AI works because "the rapid development of generative AI outpaced the development of responses, guidelines and policies," DLsite said, adding that "this is also a step in the right direction. This is also in light of the impact on existing creators of continuing to sell AI works in their current state," the company added. DLsite's announcement said that the items that will be suspended from AI sales are comics, CG illustrations, videos and picture books generated using AI. Novels, game titles and works created only partially with AI assistance will continue to be sold, DLsite said, adding that it will "make further responses in the future based on the state of development of generative AI technology and community feedback. On May 10, pixivFANBOX, an illustration site run by Pixiv, and Fantia, run by Tora no Ana, also announced that they would temporarily stop selling AI-generated work, a move that follows the lead of other companies.

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CDPR announced a bunch of game projects a few months ago, including The Witcher 4 based on Unreal 5, the open-world The Witcher: Remastered, a sequel to Cyberpunk 2077, and The Witcher: Project Sirius, a new game in The Witcher universe being developed by Molasses Flood Studios in Boston (previously Drake Hollow and The Flame in The Flood). The Witcher: Project Sirius is being developed by Molasses Flood Studios in Boston (previously Drake Hollow and The Flame in The Flood) and is part of the new Witcher universe. CDPR announced in March that they had "re-evaluated the original conceptual scope and commercial potential of Project Sirius" and were "developing a new framework for the project. According to the latest regulatory announcement, CDPR said on Thursday that it has completed its work to "define a new framework" for The Witcher: Project Sirius, has set a new direction for the project, and has revised the costs associated with the project. CD Projekt CEO Adam Kiciński previously said, "The game will be set in the world of The Witcher, but it's different from our past releases in that it's aimed at a broader audience. The Witcher: Project Sirius will be available for single-player and multiplayer." It's unclear exactly how the game will play; a job ad posted by The Molasses Flood earlier this year indicated that the game would feature action combat, co-op, AI procedural generation elements and branching or non-linear storytelling, which at first glance sounds like a multiplayer instant service game with story elements rather than a traditional RPG.

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Xbox officials announced that Diablo 4 will open its second round of public beta on Xbox console from May 13-15, and the game is now available for pre-loading. The first public beta for Diablo 4 opened March 24-26, and according to Windows Central, the second beta includes all of the content from the first beta, with a level cap of 20 for players. The second round of beta includes the Prologue and Act 1 of the campaign, as well as all Fractured Peaks areas. Diablo 4 will be released on June 6, 2023, and pre-orders are available now for NT$2,219 for the Regular Edition, NT$2,819 for the Digital Deluxe Edition, and NT$3,119 for the Ultimate Edition.

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Xbox press release, dedicated to recommend the game Chrono Odyssey by Unreal Engine 5, South Korean game developers NPIXEL production, and shared the live run screen. NPIXEL said in a press release that the Xbox version of "Chrono Odyssey" will provide players with "an unparalleled visual experience" and a "vast and seamless open world. Microsoft Xbox calls it a "Next-Generation Open-World MMORPG". The game will have massive combat and map exploration, with 18 career systems, an epic and ambitious plot, and music provided by Cris Velasco, who composed the music for "Resident Evil 7" and "God of War" among others.

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AMD has made artificial intelligence (AI) its number one strategic priority, and the Instinct MI300 gas pedal can help the company capture the market, said AMD Chief Executive Officer C.F. Su at the Q1 2023 earnings meeting. We are confident and excited about our AI capabilities. AI is now our number one strategic focus and we are actively working with all of our customers to bring joint solutions to market. These include the upcoming Insight MI300 GPU, the Ryzen 7040 family of processors with Ryzen AI, the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC chip, Data Center LVO V70, a data center gas pedal, Versal AI, an adaptive data center platform, and related SoCs. AMD says AI creates a broader market than the cloud, and the flagship Instinct MI300 gas pedal meets all the requirements of the AI and HPC / supercomputing ecosystem. Through its subsidiary Xilinix to drive and accelerate work related to AI software and the overall Generative AI platform, the Instinct MI300 will be delivered to the first AI customers in Q4 2023.

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Ubisoft's action-adventure game "Assassin's Creed: Phantasmagoria" will be available in August. GameStop is a US-based seller of video games, consumer electronics and wireless services. According to a shared screenshot of GameStop's internal system, the game will be released in August.

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Valve's recent Steam Beta update includes a built-in notepad feature that makes it easy for players to record game progress, important reminders, and other content.After players open the notepad feature, the notepad will float on the game screen, and the transparency can be adjusted. The "smart" players immediately found another use for the notepad, acting as a sniper rifle aiming point in the game "CS: GO". In CS:GO, the crosshairs are not displayed when the player uses the sniper rifle. The hovering notepad window will display the "*" symbol after the notepad is opened, which is an official "cheat".

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Team First of all, the team problem, the best 4 color team, to deal with a variety of unexpected situations, the game is basically by breaking shield, you break the shield after the other side will stun a round, this round you can stack buffs or tun battle skill points, equivalent to faster than the other side, so basically play is broken shield, if you want to scrape hard is not impossible, the key to see the personal play. If someone says they practice the role does not correspond to the weak point how to do, that is to re-train, the level does not have to be too high to ensure that the role does not die on the line, as long as the resources tilted main c enough power basically can pass Roles Physical protagonist: first of all, the protagonist opening protagonist is the physical properties, basically positioning is a physical c, no main c or no shield, then you can choose to raise the protagonist, after all, bar cocoa liya hit the protagonist can be transferred to fire shield, basically March seven at this time can be laid off Fire master: taunt shield, basically she can have a certain effect to protect other characters, the big move also tuned fast enough to break the shield gain basically okay March seven is a shield auxiliary, no nurse when you can take her on, especially when the lock monster March seven can basically save lives Level 17 conductor can give you this defense shield set, get it to her, basically…

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Sony recently announced a new optical drive patent, which mentions a detachable optical drive device that may be used in the new PS5 model previously circulated. The patent information lists an optical disc drive that can be installed in electronic devices such as game consoles, personal computers or audiovisual equipment. "The optical disc drive allows for a transfer roller position manipulation mechanism, a centering mechanism and a chuck pulley operating mechanism while allowing for a reduced number of components." Although the new PS5 model is not mentioned in the description, this certainly adds to the credibility of previous rumors.The PS5 game console will undergo a relatively major revamp in mid-2023, with the new console to be launched around September 2023. The source said the console is codenamed "D chassis PlayStation 5" and features a removable optical drive.

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Some plot details about "Marvel's Spider-Man 2" have leaked, and Peter Parker was infected with the symbiote in the early episodes of the game. According to the leaked information, Peter will infect the symbiote early in the episode, gain his classic symbiote suit, and use the resulting new powers to defeat his former police ally turned ghost (Wraith) Yuri Watanabe. Norman Osborn then becomes concerned about Spider-Man's new powers and hires Hunter Craven to capture Parker. After several increasingly intense battles, Peter eventually got rid of the symbiote suit, which then infected the original "Venom" Eddie Brock in the comics.Eddie will be a playable character in Marvel's "Marvel's Spider-Man 2", similar to the sneaky part of Mary Jane and Miles in the first game. Eddie turned into "Venom", and then teamed up with Cliven to take revenge on Peter. Previously, Sony officially said that "Marvel's Spider-Man 2" will land on PS5 in the fall of 2023, so stay tuned!

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DOTA2 has recently launched the "New Frontiers" version 7.33 update. The entire update includes the game map, hero attributes, neutral items, matchmaking mechanism and game interface, which is very informative.As the designer of the best balanced MOBA game in the world, ice frog has not disappointed the players who like DOTA2. Although the game version number is not as leap as seven years ago, but the 7.33 version can afford people's expectation of "DOTA4".Compared to the previous game map, the map in 7.33 has been expanded by nearly 40%, and with it comes a richer variety of neutral buildings. The addition of Lotus Pond, Gate of Twins, Tesseract of Pain, and Observer has given the map more "Battleground", which in turn has increased the pace and confrontation of the game. The most surprising change is the adjustment of the game's matchmaking mechanism. In the matchmaking adjustments, Valve and ice frog wrote this, "Let's be honest: there are 8 billion people on the planet, and 99.99% of them play Dota like rookies. This means that matchmaking is a challenge, especially since there are people who play Dota well and like to play with people who are not as good at Dota as you are. We've done a lot of work and calculated a long time to improve the quality of matchmaking across the board for the full range of players." "smurf", is a problem that many competitive games encounter. In the past, Valve has tried many ways to make the ladder score more scientific and accurate. This time, the game has…

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ROG Ally is equipped with AMD Ryzen 7 7840U and equipped with 16GB of memory. The official said that this SOC is a custom chip, and it is possible to make some modifications in some aspects on the basis of the original model. The new processor adopts the Zen 4 architecture with a basic frequency of 3.3 GHz. The GPU part is based on the RDNA 3 architecture and is manufactured using a 4nm process. It has 8 cores, 16 threads, and 768 stream processors. It is said that the performance at 15W is 50 times higher than that of Steam Deck. %, twice the performance of Steam Deck at 35W. In addition, the size of ROG Ally is smaller than Steam Deck, but it is also equipped with a 7-inch screen with a resolution of 1080P, a refresh rate of 120Hz, a response time of 5ms, and a brightness of 500 nits.

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At the Touch Taiwan 2023 exhibition, AUO showed a 24-inch screen panel with a record refresh rate of 540Hz. While supporting the ultra-high refresh rate of up to 540Hz, the panel has a resolution of 1920x1080p, supports dynamic refresh rate adjustment, and can avoid a series of problems such as tearing, freezing, and smearing of the screen. From the perspective of parameters, AUO's 24-inch 540Hz panel has a high probability of being applied to ASUS's ROG Swift Pro PG248QP gaming monitor.The display displayed by ASUS at CES 2023 has the same screen parameters as a 24-inch 540Hz refresh rate and 1920x1080p resolution. PG248QP is expected to be officially shipped in the second quarter of this year, priced at $899.

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Nvidia is ready, and RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 4060 will be released in May. The RTX 4060 Ti uses the AD106 core for the first time, integrating 4352 stream processors, while the RTX 4060 uses the AD107 small core, integrating 3072 CUDA cores.Both graphics cards have only 128-bit memory interface width, partner with 8GB GDDR6 (the new generation uses GDDR6 for the first time), the equivalent frequency is 18GHz, and the bandwidth is 288GB/s.RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 4060 are expected to have only 160W and 115 respectively, and a single 8-pin power supply interface is enough, which is 40W and 45W lower than the previous generation respectively. In terms of selling price, it is said that NVIDIA is targeting a market around $449, which is $150 cheaper than the RTX 4070.However, the news shows that the RTX 4060 Ti and the RTX 3060 Ti are priced at $399, which means it can be done for less than 2800 yuan. Do you believe it?

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Sega will acquire Finland-based game developer Rovio Entertainment next week for about $1 billion. Rovio Entertainment has a number of self-developed games, including "Angry Birds" and "Little Thief", among which "Angry Birds" is the company's most successful game work. "Angry Birds" is also the first mobile game certified by the Guinness Book of Records to reach 1 billion downloads. As of last year, the total downloads of Rovio's games exceeded 5 billion. However, the original "Angry Birds" was removed from the app store as early as 2019, citing device compatibility issues at the time. However, in 2022, Rovio launched the remake of "Angry Birds", which is the version that can now be downloaded from the store. It has been remade using the Unity engine, and there are still no in-app purchases and ads.

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"GTA 6" is probably the most anticipated game in the past two years, but developer Rockstar and publisher Take-Two have not released much information about the game. However, someone has already dug up some content about the game map. Some players have found that the buildings in GTA 6 use real photos of Miami, and we can even find many similar scenes and buildings on Google Earth. "GTA 6" depicts the game map in the same chronological order as real life, and some of the buildings are almost 1:1 replicas of the real scene. Of course, the rendered models in the early works do look a little choppy, but I believe the final version will be more refined. Beyond that, GTA 6 fans have already found out where the in-game maps correspond in real life, including where buildings are located in real life. That said, some Miami players may feel like they're driving on real streets when playing the game. ast year, Rockstar suffered a serious hacking attack, the hacker behind which was a 17-year-old Briton, who has been arrested. A few small GTA 6 leaks have since started popping up on social media, but nothing substantial. On September 18, a community member named GTAForums released a more than 50-minute "GTA 6" development version video, revealing some major content of the game.

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