Entertainment

NetEase Cloud Music, one of the leading music streaming providers in China, has reportedly partnered with Germany-based BMG Rights Management GmbH. The new partnership will enable NetEase Cloud Music to gain access to BMG’s global music catalog.

Sources cite that the company will partner with BMG in new music-related endeavors including artist promotions, live concert performances, online karaoke, and live streaming. The collaboration will also provide BMG’s international artists and songwriters with a novel stage that is widely renowned as China’s one of the most popular music platforms streaming platforms.

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Blockchain game services platform, PlayDapp, has reportedly rolled out ‘Along with the Gods: Knights of Dawn’ game on Google Play Store. Sources state that ‘Along with the Gods’ is a strategic role-playing game where users will be able to formulate their own team of heroes that have five unique power types.

The game will also offer users the opportunity to collect more than 100 different heroes and enjoy several combat modes. Users will also be able to take part in Boss Raids, Hero Dungeons, Guild Battles, and PVP, and also enhance character abilities via a combination of rune sets having myriad effects.

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Epic Games has reportedly announced that it will no longer give users access via Apple’s “Sign In with Apple” login system. The new restriction will be effective from September 11 and is another casualty of the ongoing spat between Apple and Epic Games.

As per sources, those presently using “Sign In with Apple” feature for their Epic account will have to update the account with new login credentials prior to the mentioned date, provided they wish to retain access. While the game maker has created a guide on how these updates could be made, it has also stated that it may be able to go for a manual recovery of the account, once the “Sign i

Fans of ‘World of Warcraft’, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game launched in 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment, donned costumes on last Saturday to bring the computer game into the real world in a forest in Kamyk nad Vltavou, south of Prague, moving ahead with scaled-back competition after the pandemic COVID-19 postponed the event earlier this year.

Sources cite that the gaming fans have dressed as elves and knights and shamans and took part in several competitions and games. However, generally live-action combat was scrapped due to a low turnout. The annual springe event generally draws up to 200 people but organizers said turnout was about 60 this y

Although introducing new games might seem to be the perfect business amidst COVID-19 Pandemic, several game studios are having though time to cope with the logistical challenges of developing games remotely. That is the case of Crows Crows Crows and Arkane Studios SASU, which both reportedly announced that their new games named ‘The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe’ and ‘Deathloop’ respectively, will not launch as scheduled in late 2020.

Both video game developers have revealed the new 2021 release date to their communities on Twitter. Arkane wrote on Twitter that the coronavirus pandemic has significantly disrupted the work of the company.

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China-based Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) has reportedly announced the establishment of a strategic collaboration with Thailand’s one of the largest international record companies , GMM Grammy (GMM Music). The strategy will have music content at its heart, co-create content by adaptation and cover, and will concentrate on providing a better music listening experience for global music fans.

With the support of WeSing, TME’s foreign online Karaoke social network, the collaboration will offer a more vibrant music entertainment and interactive platform to music lovers in South East Asia and will also tap into the greater potential of the music markets in China and Thailand.

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Technology giant Apple Inc. is reportedly teaming up with ViacomCBS Inc. for the first bundle tied to Apple TV+, which would deliver a flat discount of around 50 percent for customers who buy CBS All Access and Showtime together.

Sources cite that, Apple TV+ users will be able to watch all CBS and Showtime channels via the Apple TV app for USD 9.99 per month. That is significantly less price as CBS All Access and Showtime typically cost $9.99 to $10.99 per month respectively.

It is Apple’s first discounted TV+ media entertainment subscription deal. Currently, consumers are allowed to apply to various service suppliers as per their relevant demands. ViacomCBS Inc., which operates both conten

Epic Games Inc., the video game giant and the creator of Fortnite, has attracted another heavy round of investments and has managed to raise a total of USD 1.78 billion, which pushes the company’s valuation to a massive USD 17.3 billion.

Based in The Cary, North Carolina, the video game firm stated that the investment came in the form of primary capital, where some investors bought new shares and in form of secondary purchases, where others bought stakes from current shareholders.

Sources cite that the investment also included last month’s announced USD 250 million investment from Sony. The company announced diverse new investor names such as Fidelity, BlackRock, Lightspeed Venture Partners, the Ontario Teach

MHI (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)’s Machine Tool Co., Ltd. has reportedly developed new models for gear shaping and hobbing machines with highly accurate machining. These new models will considerably aid in manufacturing precision reduction gears for robots.

Marketed as the ‘FR Series’, the new products will cater to the rapidly increasing need for efficient and highly precise manufacturing of the precision reduction gears. The full-fledged launch of the products is expected to start in August 2020. The sharp rise in demand for high precision gears can be attributed to the expansion of the industrial & life support robot market in the recent years.

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