Sony buys Bungie, and VR avatars arrive on Instagram, Facebook

Speaker 1: This is CNET. And here are the stories that matter right now. Another day, another video game industry acquisition Sony is buying video game developer, Bunge, which currently makes the online game. Destiny. Sony did not immediately say how much it paid, but Bloomberg reported the price to be $3.6 billion. Bunge will be under the same company as PlayStation, but Bunge says the studio will keep making games for other platforms. Bunge gained fame as the studio [00:00:30] that created halo, but that franchise is now owned by Microsoft. And this deal comes just weeks after Microsoft announced it was gonna buy video game developer, active vision blizzard for a price of 68.7 billion. And also recently take two interactive announced it would buy Zinga for 12.7 billion. Meanwhile, the Facebook ified metaverse is starting to take shape and it looks a lot like Bitmoji, 3d VR avatars are now showing [00:01:00] up on apps for fit Facebook, Instagram, and Facebook messenger users can dress their avatars in limited time, super bowl themed jerseys. Speaker 1: You can think of it similar to cartoon versions of yourself like Bitmoji or apples, me emoji, but these are avatars that existed inside the Oculus quest two VR headsets. Just now they have a few more customizations. And if your windows machine feels like it's always needing updating, or it takes a long time to complete, it could be that you're not connected online [00:01:30] long enough to finish the job in a blog post. Microsoft says windows requires a minimum of eight hours online to update successfully and it's done in chunks. It needs two continuous hours connected, followed by six total connected hours after an update is released. So, uh, maybe leave it on overnight to be safe. Stay up to date with the latest by visiting Sena.