A new internal report from MLex says this:

Microsoft's Call of Duty deal with Nintendo is misleading, Sony argues

Sony has criticized Microsoft's deal to make the game Call of Duty available on Nintendo — should its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard be approved by regulators — as smoke and mirrors, MLex has learned.

Activision Blizzard could supply Call of Duty to Nintendo today, but doesn't, because Nintendo's younger audience is not interested in the first-person shooter and a previous version of the game on its console was a commercial flop, the arch critic of the deal says, MLex understands.

Instead of being a logical business decision, the licensing agreement is a tactic designed to make Microsoft — whose acquisition has drawn concerns in the EU, UK and US — look cooperative with regulators, the argument goes.

Furthermore, Nintendo's Switch could not run Call of Duty easily and may never be able to, Sony argues, MLex understands. Developing a version of the game compatible with the Switch could take years, making a 10-year licensing deal meaningless.

It is easier for Nintendo to enter into such an agreement, Sony says, MLex has learned. Nintendo doesn't need to worry about equal treatment for its subscription service or cloud gaming service as those are not areas where it currently competes aggressively, the argument goes.

A sheep has been sentenced to three years in jail after it was found guilty of killing a woman.

Police chief Major Elijah Mabor said: "The ram attacked by hitting her ribs and the old women died immediately. So this is what happened in Rumbek East in a place called Akuel Yoi.

He said: "The owner is innocent and the ram is the one who perpetrated the crime so it deserves to be arrested then later on the case shall be forwarded to customary court where the case can be handled amicably."

The animal will now spend the next three years in a military camp in Aduel County headquarters in Sudan's Lakes State.

Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sheep-sentenced-to-three-years-in-jail-for-killing-woman/ar-AAXHsUf

Justice?

An unknown fan paid more than half a million dollars for the last football Tom Brady threw in an NFL game before retiring last season. But the ball has now lost much of its value after the 44-year-old athlete announced Sunday that he is returning to professional football, experts said.

The football sold for $518,628 on Saturday through New Jersey auction company Lelands, with the high price driven in part by the belief that it was used for what would be the last touchdown pass ever thrown by one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history. Roughly 24 hours after the auction closed, Brady announced via Twitter that he would return to the NFL, marking a tough break for the winning bidder.

"The ball is worth a lot less now," sports memorabilia expert David Kohler told CBS MoneyWatch, adding that once Brady throws another touchdown, the ball's value will be "a fraction of what it was worth."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tom-brady-leland-auction-500000-nfl/

Would you pay $500k for the football?

A camel killed two men after escaping a petting zoo in Tennessee, a county sheriff said.

Officials from the Obion county sheriff’s office said the fatal incident unfolded around 5.44pm on Thursday, when they “received a call of a loose camel near Shirley Farms on South Bluff Road in Obion … attacking people”.

The animal remained aggressive. Obion authorities said “the camel attacked an Obion county sheriff’s office vehicle then move[d] towards deputies who were attempting to move a victim to” emergency medical services.

“It was at this time officers had to put the camel down for the safety of everyone on scene.”

The statement said the two victims, identified as Bobby Matheny and Tommy Gunn, “did succumb to their injuries and were pronounced dead on scene”.

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@blaznwiipspman1:

You try:

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. – A teacher was hospitalized after a 5-year-old Pines Lakes Elementary student attacked her, according to the Pembroke Pines Police Department.

The student used fists and feet to hit his teacher shortly after 10 a.m., on Wednesday in the “Cool Down” room after he and a 4-year-old started to throw things around and flip chairs, according to the incident report.

Fire Rescue personnel used a stretcher to take the teacher out of the classroom and took her to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood. The student is facing a charge of aggravated assault with hands, fists, and feet.

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Sony got pwned!?

• Smartphone Graphics Mode: 1680x720p at 30fps
• FPS mode and Battery Saver lower resolution, texture quality and some post-processing effects.
• Textures on smartphone have a lower quality than the Xbox and Switch versions.
• Ambient occlusion has also had some cuts in smartphones.
• The FPS mode is only compatible with some high-end smartphones. On Galaxy S21, the framerate ranges between 50 and 40fps.
• Being able to adjust some graphical parameters would have been wise to guarantee better performance.
• In general, it is an acceptable port, but only accessible for high-performance phones.

Switch > 2021 SmartPhones!

"Not because the boy cries and the girl cries, there it is, the program, the Nintendo so that she does not cry, and there the children are watching the Nintendo for hours, now violent games that should not be watched by children, not because she is crying and there it goes, give her the Nintendo so that she stops crying and also so that I can do my things, and what is the child watching? And who are the people who work on these programs, these contents? What is their conception of life? They are geniuses, they are very intelligent, but the person who created the atomic bomb was also very intelligent", said the Mexican President.

"Now that I return to Mexico City, we are going to make known a case of child kidnappings that were carried out through these games that are executed without knowing who they are playing with, so it is forbidden to prohibit, but we can talk about these issues," he commented.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

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Should Mexico Ban Nintendo games, GameSpot?

Apex Legends is now a much safer place to play without running into hackers thanks to the over 2,000 bans Respawn handed out today to players across all platforms, but PS4 in particular seems to have the worst community for hacking with 1,965 of the bans coming from the PlayStation platform alone.

https://www.psu.com/news/respawn-bans-over-2000-players-from-apex-legends-and-1965-of-them-were-on-ps4/