It is once again earning reports season and our first interest for gaming industry is, ironically, Activision Blizzard heading to its probable second to last earning reports of Q2 2023 and there are reasons to celebrate. Activision Blizzard reported $2.207 billion of revenue and $583 million of operating income, both a positive of 32% and 62% compared to last year and the second Q2 with high...

It is Day 4 and Day 5 of the hearing of the FTC requesting a Preliminary Injunction against Microsoft to avoid closing the transaction where they will welcome the Activision Blizzard conglomerate as a new family member of Xbox Game Studios. On Day 4 this past Wednesday, it was a big day as both CEO of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard, respectively Satya Nadella and Bobby Kotick will have their...

Without resuming EVERYTHING that had happened at both Activision and Blizzard, as a conglomerate, Activision Blizzard practically had many fires that they started themselves and one in particular could just not take as long as it did. But finally a promise was fulfilled (obviously was not on plans but public relationship said otherwise) and Activision Blizzards has granted over 1,100 temporary...

Despite gamers and streamers' relationship with Amazon (thanks to Twitch) is not on peaches and cream status, but for nevertheless, Prime Gaming has been a big aspect of Amazon Prime in general and of course Prime Day means something for gamers. A little later after confirming that Prime Day (Amazon's early Black Friday equivalent exclusive for Prime users) will be from June 12-13, Amazon also...

Meanwhile Intel continues the journey for a comeback after years of AMD practically being favored as a main CPU alternative for public and enterprise, the very same AMD is not having a seamless journey on continuing to the top and this is thanks to a tanking PC market. AMD reported having closed Q1 2023 with $5.4 billion in revenue, continuing the year-over-year slide they’ve been...

While I don't cover general tech without gaming to be attached for this blog, AMD had an interesting quarter thanks to its gaming approach including their Radeon GPUs line, discrete GPUs and gaming companies associations like Microsoft and Sony, respectively for Xbox and Playstation. AMD closed the middle of 2022 with a $5 billion bang thanks to its gaming effort, that includes all their fronts...

The Battle Royale scenery seems to be saturated and there have been games that took some traction last year and one of those games was the 3 year old BR from EA’s Respawn Entertainment finally will be given a proper presence for Playstation 5 and Xbox Series S/X. The Warriors Collection Event will bring next-gen versions of Apex Legends to PS5 and XSX!PlayStation players: check out the...

After many years of rumors within the tech and Apple fandom communities, the time arrived at WWDC 23 for the curtain to open and the world got a glimpse of what we will now know as Apple Vision Pro. I don’t know if you are ready to spend a HEFTY $3,499, the price of a ULTRA HIGH TIER GAMING PC for just a mixed-reality headset (which to me is 90% AR and 10% VR) which Apple announced as the...

While I am not an owner of any Arcade1Up machine, I foresee myself buying my first one this year, and also I have been more active in news regardings their products and of course we are going to talk about the next generation of its Infinity Game Table. Thanks to a renewed partnership with Hasbro, Arcade1Up includes many popular tabletop games like Risk, Ticket to Ride, Pandemic, Scrabble...

It is with some sadness that I had to share about Athenascope, the popular AND FREE service that via an AI, you can have clips from live streams of popular multiplayers an Battle Royale games, will be shutting down. Users have been receiving this email and also there is a copy at the main Athenascope’s Discord:  Tough announcement to make, but sending this out to let you all know we...