Weekly Highlights

24/9/2020 week Highlights 1.)      Microsoft bought the renowned Game Studio Bethesda for $7.5b 2.)     Asus for the first time Best Laptop Brand of the year 3.)      Intel announces processors with IoT specific variants 4.)      Rocket league goes free to play in the Epic Games store 5.)      QNTW: Should you use e-Shopping in Nepal?   DETAILS:   Microsoft bought the renowned Game Studio Bethesda for $7.5b Microsoft the developer of Xbox has completed the purchase of the Bethesda Game Studio. The payment believed to be $7.5 billion was accepted by Bethesda’s parent ZeniMax Media. This will make a huge impact on the battle of Xbox Series X vs PS5. As you can see on my last blog https://glitchystar717.blogspot.com/2020/09/Week1.html there were less exclusive games on Xbox Series X and its self-made games were also not so hit franchises like God of War, Horizon, Turismo, Spiderman but with this step, the situation “can” change (because their availability on other platforms will be game-

19/9/2020 week Highlights 1.)      RTX 30 series GPUs supply can’t keep up with demands. 2.)      First death from a cyberattack. 3.)      Nokia declared No. 1 in Telecom software 5.)      Epic gives legendary Watchdogs 2 and Football Manager 2020 free for this week. 6.)      TOTW: Should you choose PS5 or XBOX Series X   DETAILS:   RTX 30 series GPUs supply can’t keep up with demands. Well, after a long-seen hype for the RTX 30 series which NVIDIA said performed better than 2080 ti and will be available in a fraction of the cost, we have finally seen the pre-order and early bird sales this week. While the 3080 certainly won the 2080 ti in 500$ less Brand-New cost but the manufacturer’s claim came out be true only in some scenarios and applications. But the claim was enough to make the already hyped New Ampere architecture take out on Internet by storm. This meant many people selling their used 2080 ti in seriously less price than its initial cost for sa