Game information: Microsoft is determined to win and settle with Sony Nintendo for mergers and acquisitions!
1. Nintendo will get all Activision Blizzard games in the future
With the FTC losing the case, Microsoft's biggest hurdle to acquiring Activision Blizzard has been removed, and the pace of mergers is being stepped up.
Microsoft also announced that it would keep its promise to keep the "Call of Duty" series on Sony consoles for ten years, and Sony also acquiesced to the acquisition.
The conditions for Nintendo were even more generous, and court documents indicated that Microsoft was obligated to allow all Activision Blizzard games, including Call of Duty, to be used on Nintendo consoles.
Microsoft also said that the Switch's functionality is likely to cause content to shrink, but it does not rule out the possibility that the new NX2 console will work perfectly.
2, Switch helps the FBI find the missing girl
According to foreign media ABC15, according to court documents, the Nintendo Switch helped the FBI solve a kidnapping case last summer.
Ethan Roberts, 28, met a 15-year-old girl from Virginia online, met her and took her to Arizona, where he allowed the girl to bring her Switch.
Roberts then imprisoned the teenage girl and forced her to film pornographic videos.
Just when the girl's home was anxious about her disappearance, one of her playmates discovered that the girl's Nintendo account had logged into the eshop and downloaded a game, and he immediately reported it to the FBI.
After contacting Nintendo, the FBI obtained the IP address of the Switch and traveled to Arizona to rescue the imprisoned teenage girl.
In April, suspect Ethan Roberts pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
3. Can game consoles from 28 years ago still be overclocked?
The Game Boy is Nintendo's first handheld, and in order to expand its user base, Nintendo also launched an SFC GB peripheral in 1995: the SUPER GAME BOY.
It plugs in on the SFC console like a matryoshka doll and plugs in a GB cartridge to run the game.
SGB uses the Sharp LR359021 processor, based on Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80, is an 8-bit chip with an original frequency of 4.19MHz, but Nintendo has exceeded it to 4.295MHz.
In order to test the ability of this CPU, gamer nensondubois recently made a cracked version of ROM, allowing SGB to turn on Turbo acceleration mode when playing "World Heroes 2: Jet Edition", and the processor frequency was increased to 5.35MHz, and the overclocking range was close to 25%.
The point of overclocking this ancient CPU is not great, running the game not only does not speed up, but there are errors.
But that's geeky spirit, isn't it?
4. The sequel to the spirit of "Invincible Heroes" will be released
Publisher PQube and developer Crazy Goat Games have announced that Might & Magic: Heroes' style game Dragon Girl: Order of Fire will be released on August 10, on PC, PS, and XBOX, while the Switch version will be released on September 7.
It is a turn-based wargame where players recreate devastated cities in a fantasy continent.
The game has elements of building, exploration, and combat, incorporating a mild Rouge style, which can be achieved by recruiting various races, enhancing heroes' abilities, and constantly collecting resources to achieve victory.
5. "Survivor: Wandering Island" public information
A few days ago, French game publisher Microids announced that the game "Survivor: Wandering Island" adapted from the famous reality show "Survivor" will land on all platforms on October 3.
The game will be played in a variety show, and the protagonist and several contestants are banished to the wandering island. Survive and socialize on a desert island, and vote regularly to eliminate other competitors and emerge victorious.
In addition to the gameplay of the original show, Microids will also add elements such as character plot and skills to attract more players.
6, "UFO Demon God Gulandesa: Wolf Feast" is about to appear
Manga artist Hiroshi Nagai's famous robot manga will be adapted into a game, UFO Demon God Gulandisa: A Feast for Wolves is a game that drives robots to fight.
The content of the game includes fighting, shooting, and exploration, and is a bloody action game.
It will land on PC, PS, and XBOX platforms on November 14, and will land on Switch within 2024.
7. The EU requires all handheld devices to be replaceable batteries
The European Union has issued the "strictest battery regulation", from 2027, all handheld devices sold in EU countries need to be equipped with replaceable batteries.
NOT ONLY MOBILE PHONES, BUT EVEN SWITCH, STEAM DECK, IPAD AND OTHER DEVICES MUST ALSO BE COMPLIED WITH, IF IT CANNOT BE ACHIEVED, THE MANUFACTURER NEEDS TO PROVIDE USERS WITH SPECIAL DISASSEMBLY TOOLS.
The author remembers that the original mobile phone can replace the battery, and there is an artifact "universal charge", since the advent of the Apple mobile phone, the battery has become a component solidified into the machine, and other manufacturers have also learned, resulting in now there is no mobile phone that can replace the battery by itself.
The battery replacement threshold is also higher, often pay a lot of money to revive their mobile phones, the EU regulation also gives users the right to replace the battery by themselves.
Will other regions follow suit? Let's wait and see.
8. Microsoft Gold membership is dead
Microsoft recently announced that XBOX LIVE Gold members will be officially offline on September 1, replaced by XGP CORE services.
Gold membership is a service that Microsoft has run for 21 years, including discounts, online, game library and other functions, and will be replaced by XGPC services in the future, with the same price of $9.9 per month, inheriting the previous membership rights and time.
But eagle-eyed players found that the XGPC service is equivalent to the castrated version of the XGP service, and does not have the label of "New games on day one", and can only play the normal XGP game library, while the other three XGP services have this function.
Games like Starfield that first join XGP cannot be played.
And canceled the monthly free game, and could not upgrade to XGPU and other rights, forced players to buy new members.
This is also a point that people of insight are worried about, Microsoft will raise the price of XGP services in disguise after taking advantage!
A hardcore player with 824 years of gold membership left has cried in the toilet.
9) British supermarket chain Tesco will no longer sell physical games
As the digital game market gets bigger, some manufacturers and distributors have announced that they no longer support physical games.
A few days ago, the British supermarket chain Tesco announced that after the existing physical game inventory is sold, it will no longer sell boxed games and will sell existing games at a discount, due to the digital transformation of users.
Tesco is one of the top three retailers in the world, with over 2800 supermarkets in the UK. It had previously entered China under the name "Tesco Supermarket", but after 2014 sold all 115 supermarkets to China Resources, renamed "CR Vanguard", and Tesco withdrew from China.
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