Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy Discord but Discord might just take itself public instead. A ton of video game news including an Xbox rebranding, a new Niantic partnership with Nintendo, and new rumors of that upgraded Nintendo switch. A new consortium wants to take the pain out of browser compatibility and Apple faces a class action lawsuit over the butterfly keyboards.

Links:

Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for More Than $10 Billion (Bloomberg)
Microsoft rebrands Xbox Live to Xbox network (The Verge)
Pikmin is the next AR game from the makers of Pokémon Go (The Verge)
Nintendo to Use New Nvidia Graphics Chip in 2021 Switch Upgrade (Bloomberg)
Microsoft, Google, and others join forces to improve browser compatibility (Neowin)
Facebook will bring back F8 on June 2 as a pared-back, single-day, virtual-only conference for developers (TechCrunch)
Angry MacBook owners get class action status for butterfly keyboard suit (The Verge)
Jack Dorsey’s first tweet sold as an NFT for an oddly specific $2,915,835.47 (The Verge)

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