Ubisoft May Close Your Account Ubisoft is a French video game publisher and developer famous for the Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Tom Clancy franchises. I’ve had a Ubisoft account for more than 10 years and have around two dozen games in my Ubisoft Connect […]
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True to form, Elon Musk, that divisive maverick, pulls yet another rabbit from the hat and ditches the Twitter bird for a cold and angular X. Twitter aficionados are up in arms as are many journalists and PR czars who reckon that Mr Musk is
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Hi there, In January, we updated YouTube monetisation terms to enable new ways for partners to grow and earn money on the platform. As mentioned in our previous email, we are terminating your YouTube Partner Programme (YPP) contract because your terms are no longer up
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In a complex deal, Microsoft and Activision-Blizzard are one step closer to consummating this massive merger following approval by US and EU authorities. However, since the UK Competition and Marketing Authority (CMA) blocked the deal earlier this year over cloud gaming concerns, the agreement has
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The Musk-Zuckerberg battle continues as Facebook/Meta’s new social media app, Threads, was launched last week. In its first 24 hours, the Twitter challenger attracted 30 million users, a number which has now grown to 100 million and counting. At that rate of growth, Threads looks
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Advertising on websites generates revenue, of that there is no doubt and without that advertising, many websites simply could not survive because said revenue pays for hosting and many other related costs. But there is a fine balance that has to be considered by website
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I can’t imagine that Core Design, the original creators of Tomb Raider could have foreseen that Lara Croft and her adventures would have become such a global phenomenon. Since 1996, there have been twenty games and three major Hollywood films based on our favourite
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Whoopi Goldberg Unhappy That Diablo IV Isn’t On Mac Up until now, Blizzard Entertainment has released the Diablo series of games on Mac but on this occasion, the new Diablo IV – a dungeon crawler action role-playing game – has not been ported over, which
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Embracer Group Loses Major Deal In December 2022, Amazon announced that it had struck a deal with Crystal Dynamics to develop and publish the next Tomb Raider game. Since then, we haven’t heard anything more about the game except that it is currently in early
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WhatsApp Image Quality Have you ever noticed that when you send a photo in WhatsApp the end result is a much degraded picture? This is because the images are automatically resized and compressed. For example, a 4000 x 1868 pixels image (1.95MB) when sent via
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There’s one piece of software that I come across on customers’ computers more frequently than I would wish to and that’s McAfee antivirus, known as McAfee Total Protection. It’s so prevalent that it almost feels like a virus itself. Most of my customers are running
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Image Size Matters Most of us have mobile phones nowadays and the cameras on our phones are remarkably powerful, being able to shoot between 12 and 108 megapixels and maybe more. At full resolution of say, 4000 x 1868 pixels, the above photo in its
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System Shock Remake Delights Fans The System Shock reboot from Nightdive Studios is a faithful remake of the 1994 classic originally developed by Looking Glass Studios. Playing as a hacker you are trapped aboard Citadel Station which is teeming with cyborgs and mutants corrupted by
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It’s almost certain that Microsoft will release Windows 12 in the near future – sometime in 2024, probably – but the question is, do we need it? I was prompted to consider this question, having read Jim Hillier’s excellent article Are We Heading For An
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