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Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) mobile titles have seen a continued surge in monthly spending.According to Sensor Tower, mobile MOBAs have generated $300 million in monthly revenue on average throughout 2021, a rise of 14 per cent from the previous year.The COVID-19 pandemic fuelled the surge in spending on MOBA titles, alongside the rest of the mobile games industry, with average monthly revenues rising 43 per cent year-over-year in 2020.Tencent’s flagship title Honor of Kings, Arena of Valor in the West, is responsible for the majority of the growth.This year alone it has generated $2 billion in revenue, exceeded $10…

YouTube Music has been getting loads of helpful features recently, and now, YouTube has announced in a blog post that free users of the music streaming app will be getting the possibility to play music in the background, something that was reserved for paying subscribers. YouTube Music free version getting background playbackWith this new change, you will be able to close the app, minimize your screen, or lock your phone without the music from the app interrupting and without having to close the message informing you background playback is available only for paying subscribers. First, background music listening will be…

Apple may double the maximum storage allocation from 1TB (terabyte) to 2TB in next year’s iPhone models, if we can believe the latest reports. The Chinese site MyDrivers (via 9to5Mac) proposes that the company will make another storage jump in 2022, just one year after offering 1TB on an iPhone for the first time. This theory is based on early testing activity at supplier partners. “Some partners are already testing new products,” the site writes (filtered through Google Translate). “Flash memory may be upgraded to QLC flash memory, and the maximum capacity may be increased to 2TB.” In that paragraph…

Hong Kong’s Monetary Authority, its de facto central bank, has released a whitepaper on retail central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) while it continues to explore the potential of a digital Hong Kong dollar (e-HKD) for its domestic and cross-border markets.The white paper was published Monday by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), which is the de-facto central bank of the city who’s official title is the Hong Kong Special Administration of the People’s Republic of China.“Under the “One Country, Two Systems” framework under which Hong Kong is governed, Hong Kong maintains its own financial and judicial systems, among others, separately…

For years, fans have speculated that Far Cry 2’s villain The Jackal and Far Cry protagonist Jack Carver are one and the same. Now, 13 years after the sequel was released, the game’s creative director has confirmed the theory to be true, even though it’s never been corroborated by any in-game material.In an interview with IGN for a documentary on the Far Cry series’ villains, Far Cry 2’s creative director Clint Hocking confirmed that Jack Carver was definitely The Jackal. You need a javascript enabled browser to watch videos. Now Playing: History Of Far Cry “The Jackal is actually supposed…

Bluestacks has launched a new cloud-based game streaming service providing mobile games, Bluestacks X.Bluestacks X will offer free streaming of Android mobile games across multiple platforms and devices, including MacOS and Linux.Bluestacks X has launched as a beta, and currently offers a library of over 200 games, with new games added weekly.At present, the service includes several leading titles, such as Raid: Shadow Legends, Lords Mobile, and Disney Sorcerer’s Arena.Currently, Bluestacks X offers a free subscription tier with pre-roll adverts and will offer a premium tier in the future. The price for the premium tier is yet to be determined.Hybrid cloud…

Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityTL;DR Facebook has revealed that an incorrect configuration change was behind its outage yesterday. The company added that user data wasn’t compromised as a result. Social media colossus Facebook suffered a major outage yesterday, affecting Facebook itself, Instagram, and WhatsApp too. The hours-long outage was eventually resolved, and the company has now given a reason for the issue.Facebook first noted that its ability to diagnose and address the issue was complicated by the outage affecting its internal tools and systems as well. So what actually caused the problem when they were eventually able to get to…

The Windows 11 rollout officially starts today, meaning current Windows 10 users with compatible machines will be prompted to upgrade their operating system for free over the next few months. Microsoft blog posts about the new OS have boasted that it’s “the best Windows ever for gaming”–here’s what that’ll mean in practice for PC gamers.The biggest change in Windows 11 for gamers are two features that were initially developed for the Xbox Series X|S–Auto HDR and DirectStorage. Both require certain hardware to fully take advantage of the benefits, but if you’ve already got a proper gaming rig, you should be…

When Apple decided to use its own “Apple Silicon” on Macs replacing Intel processors, Intel was not happy. Today, Intel got back at Apple by posting a series of videos showing how Apple fans can be tricked into thinking that innovations created by Intel were discovered by Apple. In the first video called Breaking the Spell, a moderator named Kevin meets with Apple fans (“I’m an Apple girl in an Apple World,” says one) for some one-on-one discussions.Kevin has these Apple fans watch a video that they believe is about to show off a new Apple product. The video shows…

Up to now, space movies have been shot on terra firma, the cost, planning, and practicalities of sticking a film crew on a rocket deemed unworkable. But with the price of space missions starting to fall thanks to the efforts of companies like SpaceX, and professional moviemaking equipment becoming ever more portable, a number of filmmakers have started to show interest in shooting a movie — or at least some of it — in microgravity conditions hundreds of miles above Earth. While Hollywood megastar Tom Cruise may have been hoping to become the first actor to shoot a movie in…