From PC Mag: Even though Apple decided to reduce its cut of app store sales to 15% this year, Epic Games is continuing to fight the company in a bid "to advance fairer digital platform practices for developers and consumers." The latest shot fired in this battle is an antitrust complaint filed in...
From CNET: Google has been in a highly publicized spat with the Australian government in recent months over a bill -- the News Media Bargaining Code -- that would force the company to pay news publishers for stories that surface in Google Search inquiries. The conflict almost turned into a...
From Corsair Press Release: CORSAIR is pleased to announce it has acquired Visuals by Impulse, the world’s premium design platform for creators, which will join CORSAIR under its existing Elgato brand.
Founded in 2015, Visuals by Impulse (VBI) provides professional design for creators on Twitch...
From The Verge: Microsoft is launching a new $99 Xbox Wireless Headset next month. It’s the first wireless Xbox headset since the Xbox 360 days, and it’s designed to connect with Xbox One and Xbox Series X / S consoles, PCs, and mobile devices via Bluetooth.
The Xbox Wireless Headset design...
From PC Mag: If you're waiting for Amazon to launch a color Kindle e-reader, prepare to be tempted by a rival. PocketBook has just launched the world's first 7.8-inch e-reader with a color E Ink display.
As The Verge reports, the device is called the PocketBook InkPad Color and it costs $329. It...
From CNET: Microsoft Office merged Word, Excel and PowerPoint into a single app on iOS and Android back in 2019, but iPad owners didn't have an optimized version. The latest update changed that on Tuesday, by adding full support for Apple's tablets.
If you only use one of the three, Word, Excel and...
Back in April 2019, I was hanging out in a common area at the University of Calgary with a few of my friends discussing the Alberta provincial election at the time when someone nearby who was eavesdropping on our conversation decided to interrupt. "As someone who is a democratic socialist, do you really believe lowering the corporate tax rate will improve the economy?" A few of us looked at each other, wondering who this guy was, and I tried to...
I was talking to a few friends about free-to-play games and I asked them how much they had spent in them. As the name suggests, many games nowadays operate on the model of offering a game that is initially free to decrease the barrier of entry for players. Developers and publishers make money not from the game itself, but instead within the game through item shops, cosmetic skins, or other means. In fact, many of the games I play like League of...
From The Verge: The Nintendo Switch continues to perform very well, selling the most units out of any other gaming hardware in the US in January, according to gaming analyst firm The NPD Group. But Sony’s PlayStation 5 still made more money last month, despite a more limited supply.
According to...
From PC Mag: Square Enix launched the first Kingdom Hearts game for the PlayStation 2 back on March 28, 2002. 19 years later, we're finally getting the option to play not one, but 11 Kingdom Hearts "experiences" on PC.
Square Enix announced that a huge selection of Kingdom Hearts games will be...
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