Monday, December 20, 2021 at 3:08AM 
Turtle Rock Studios
Tencent is acquiring another video game studio to add to its impressive roster. The company acquired Slamfire, the parent company of Back 4 Blood developer Turtle Rock Studios. The studio will be "retaining its independent operations" in California, with its existing leadership team staying on to run the studio.
Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 10:42AM Amazon has reported that it rolled out an update for its Appstore, which supposedly fixes the issue that Android 12 users have been having for over a month. Android users who downloaded the latest version of the operating system found the Amazon Appstore wasn't working correctly. The problem is likely caused by the lack of compatibility between Amazon's built-in DRM and the mobile OS.
Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 8:27AM 
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The ongoing Xbox shortage hasn't just affected consumers; even Microsoft itself had run into issues because of it. This weekend, the company reportedly used Xbox Series X dev kits to run its first big Halo Infinite tournament, the Halo Championship Series' Raleigh Major. Microsoft couldn't get enough retail consoles to use.
But, according to 343 Industries' esports lead Tahir Hasandjekic, the dev kits are "functionally identical" to off-the-shelf consoles and would operate in that mode. They won't look like the competitors' consoles at home, but they should function the same. In the simplest terms to describe the situation, Hasandjekic said, the "global supply chain shortage is real."
Via: Engadget
Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 4:09AM 
What the menu looks like without the embed option (Source: Petapixel)
Instagram has begun rolling out the option for its users to prevent others from embedding their posts. The change comes after repeated requests from the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) and the National Press Photographer's Association (NPPA) to remedy this issue.
ASMP General Counsel Thomas Maddrey sent a letter (signed by six other organizations) to Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. They were informed of what the ASMP called "the rampant problem" of third parties using the embedding feature to bypass copyright protections. Now, Instagram acceded to the request, giving its users the option to let others embed their works. It's first rolling out in the US but will get global support in 2022.
Source: Petapixel
