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Jay Peters

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    Jay Peters
    Google and Nvidia have reportedly raised some flags with Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal.

    According to Bloomberg sources, they apparently expressed concerns about the megadeal to the FTC, which is suing Microsoft to block the purchase:

    Google and Nvidia provided information that backs a key FTC contention — that Microsoft could gain an unfair advantage in the market for cloud, subscription and mobile gaming — according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the process is confidential. In its remarks to the FTC, Nvidia stressed the need for equal and open access to game titles but didn’t directly oppose the acquisition, according to one of the people.

    Google, Nvidia Express Concerns to FTC About Microsoft’s Activision Deal

    [Bloomberg.com]

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Meta acquired yet another company for its VR efforts.

    As reported by former Protocol reporter Janko Roettgers in his new Lowpass newsletter, Meta in June entered a share purchase agreement with Gary Sharp Innovations, which describes itself as a Colorado-based “optics and photonics research lab.”

    It’s apparently a tiny company — LinkedIn lists just nine employees — but it marks another hardware acquisition by Meta to bolster its metaverse ambitions.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Horizon Worlds is now a little less shaky.

    “We fixed a bug so that players no longer shake when on a moving platform with others so that they now remain stable,” Meta wrote about the newly released v92 of Horizon Worlds.

    But Meta’s struggling VR social network still has some known bugs, according to the blog post, like creators being “unable to travel to their worlds in Build Mode.” Seems like a problem!

    Meta Horizon Worlds v92 Release Notes

    [www.oculus.com]

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    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Skull and Bones may have been delayed yet again, but we’ll be seeing more of it very soon.

    The oft-delayed pirate simulator will be missing its previous March release date, but if you want to see more of the upcoming game, Ubisoft will be hosting a video presentation on Friday at 12PM ET. In a tweet, the game’s developers promised that information on a new release date will be shared “very soon.”

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