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Photo: Florence Ion / GizmodoApple was hit with a major antitrust lawsuit filed by the DOJ on Thursday. The iPhone maker was accused of creating a monopoly with the iPhone, but other devices were mentioned including the Apple Watch. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland says the smartwatch made it hard to use the Apple Watch on a non-iPhone, but it appears that Apple did try to give it a shot. Apple Unveils Its iPhone 15 and Apple Watch Series 9Apple spent three years looking to add Android support to the Apple Watch,…

This story originally appeared on Kotaku.Monopoly Go, a multiplayer mobile board game, launched on April 11, 2023. Since then it has made over 2 billion dollars, been downloaded 100+ million times, and become one of the most popular digital games on the planet. But to reach this point, Scopely, the studio behind the hit game, has spent nearly $500 million on marketing alone, which is more than what Sony spent on some of its biggest games like Spider-Man 2 and The Last Of Us Part II.Unboxing Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Limited…

Free-to-play mobile game Monopoly Go has been a surprising success story in the mobile space, coming out as 2023's most successful mobile launch with $1 billion in revenue. Developer Scopely has revealed in an interview that the game has now brought in over $2 billion in its first 10 months--and that the game has spent an eye-watering $500 million on marketing and user acquisition.Scopely's senior VP of publishing Eric Wood revealed the marketing numbers in an interview with Game File, after Monopoly…

February 29th was the last day of service for Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia, a mobile game based on Square Enix’s Final Fantasy fighting game series. Since launching in the US in 2018, the game has amassed over 170 characters from across 30 years of Final Fantasy history, scattered throughout four acts composed of multiple chapters and side stories representing hundreds of hours of a game that can no longer be played. Though Opera Omnia is officially gone, one person has shouldered the task to ensure the game hasn’t…

About a thousand years ago, I was really into a band called My Life Story. It was 1996: Britannia was about to be very cool and everything that happened in Camden was cool, even an inexpert piercing that immediately became infected, and they were good, goddammit. They were witty and splashy and knowing and pretentious, intensely melodic and defiantly unbothered by the impossibility of making any money if you went around with a 12-piece orchestra.Looking back, they nearly made it a bunch of times – their debut album,…

Some women’s worst nightmare is to go missing. Having the authority “Netflix and chill” instead of trying to find them must come pretty close to the second biggest fear.A woman who had gone missing for half a day after suffering from a mental health crisis was utterly stunned when she discovered that the police, who had been sent to search for her, had spent several hours inside her home streaming shows and “chilling.”A search party had been looking for 21-year-old Abbygail Lawton, in Wigan, UK, with a police helicopter…

A massive class action lawsuit filed against Apple could see millions of App Store customers share a payout in a case worth “billions of dollars.”A class action lawsuit first filed back in March 2022 has finally been approved by the same judge that oversaw the Apple vs Epic Games Free Fortnite saga, after the class was narrowed to include only Apple account holders who had spent more than $10 on its App Store. As reported by Reuters, Apple is being sued in the Northern District of California over claims that Apple has a…

For nearly 17 years, the federal government has been after Charles Lynch for running a medical marijuana dispensary.Prosecutors refused to drop their criminal case against him even as marijuana became fully legal in California and 23 other states. They refused to let it go when Congress forbade the Department of Justice from using its funds to criminally prosecute medical marijuana activities that were consistent with state law.Prosecutors have pursued Lynch’s case — which involves conflicting state and federal marijuana…

Alphabet, Google's parent company, disclosed this information alongside its Q4 earnings report.In a financial move that raised eyebrows, Google, the tech giant, spent a whopping $2.1 billion in 2023 on severance and related expenses, letting go of over 12,000 employees, according to a report by The Verge. The trend continues in 2024, as the company has already shelled out $700 million in severance charges for over 1,000 additional layoffs this year. Alphabet, Google's parent company, disclosed this information alongside…

Despite substantial severance expenses and office closures, Google reports strong financial performance and has unveiled plans for its "Gemini era" AI initiatives Google spent a substantial $2.1 billion on severance packages…