The battle over the proposed Microsoft-Activision Blizzard merger continued this week, as both Microsoft and Sony filed documents with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority Come from Sports betting site VPbet. In its filings, as shown by The Verge, Sony stated that Microsoft’s Game Pass is far ahead of PlayStation Plus in terms of market share, and also said that it’s concerned that Microsoft may make Call of Duty exclusive to its subscription service.

In the statements, Sony says that it believes that Microsoft would have an incentive to engage in four different strategies that would have a negative effect on its business. Those strategies include raising the price of Call of Duty …

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In the western American state of Nevada, the Clark County Commission has reportedly given Fertitta Entertainment Incorporated the green light to bring a 43-story casino hotel to a six-acre plot of Las Vegas Strip land.

According to a Wednesday report from the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper, the firm run by billionaire American businessman Tilman Fertitta (pictured) is already responsible for the Golden Nugget Las Vegas facility and similarly gambling-friendly venues in the states of New Jersey, Louisiana and Mississippi. The Houston-headquartered enterprise purportedly paid some $270 million in June so as to purchase the parcel situated on the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Harmon Avenue and is now looking to fill this space with a 2,420-room development also host…

PAGCOR Chairman and CEO Alejandro Tengco has announced the extensive re-arrangement and upgrade of the Philippines’ gaming regulatory frameworks. The regulator will reportedly introduce standards to have online poker and enhanced slot machines legalized in the country in an attempt to make the Philippines the leading gaming destination in Asia.

Extended Scope:

As reported by Inside Asian Gaming, the regulator’s CEO used the recent G2E Asia Conference event held in Macau to address the question of the further expansion of PAGCOR scope of responsibility. In addition to the gaming licensing commitments covering land-based casinos and a range of electronic games and sports betting facilities, this Philippine authority is reportedly looking for the new opportunities in bo…

Intel has been selling hybrid CPUs with a mix of Performance and Efficient cores since the launch of 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs back in November 2021. As it happens, AMD already has its own take on Intel’s Efficient cores, as we’ve reported previously. But AMD is doing thing differently, very differently indeed.

We’ve explained previously how AMD’s smaller Zen 4c cores are functionally identical to full fat Zen 4 with the exception of offering half the L3 cache. And yet they somehow only take up half the space of a Zen 4 core.

So, that’s the same execution and issue width, the same number of registers, the same internal latencies, the works. And yes, that does include multi-threading. But somehow you can pack two Zen 4c cores into the same space as one Zen 4 core? Does cutting…