Apple Arcade on Friday added Slash Quest, a silly new adventure game from Green Pillow, Mother Gaia Studios and Noodlecake, to its growing catalog of over 130 games. Slash Quest thrusts you into the role of Shep, an unlikely knight, who comes across the Queen’s lost — and quite chatty — sword, Swordie. See at …
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On Friday, Apple Arcade added The Survivalists, a new adventure game from Team17, the venerable British studio behind Worms and more recently Overcooked. It’s a follow-up to the studio’s previous game The Escapists. The Survivalists joins Apple Arcade’s growing catalog of over 130 games. See at App Store In The Survivalists, you find yourself shipwrecked on an island with no memory and scant …
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The battle royale between Epic Games and Apple continues, with a judge on Friday denying a request to force Apple to allow Fortnite back into the App Store while legal proceedings continue. But the US District Court for the Northern District of California also ordered Apple to allow Epic to operate its Unreal Engine developer account in the App Store, …
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AMD on Thursday announced the Ryzen 5000 series, its flagship consumer desktop CPUs for gaming and creation. And if the company’s smattering of benchmarks are to be believed, it’s managed to squeeze quite a performance increase out of the new processors without changing the basic specs — like number of cores, total cache and power envelope — and just switching …
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WD brings gamers SSD upgrades — to store all those 200-plus GB games coming down the pike — with the RGB lighting they crave. The three new products in the company’s WD Black family add some novelty to its NVMe: a bootable SSD RAID 0 array on an 8-bit PCIe 3 card, a Thunderbolt dock with up to 2TB of …
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Happy Thursday, cheeps! A few quick odds and ends: If you have 5G-capable phones (or plan to in the near future), Metro by T-Mobile has a pretty good in-store offer: Two unlimited 5G lines for $70 a month, taxes and fees included. Actually, your first payment will be $80, but when you sign up for autopay, it drops to $70 …
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Microsoft is developing an iOS app to bring Game Pass to the iPad and iPhone, circumventing Apple App Store rules, Business Insider reported Thursday. “We absolutely will end up on iOS,” Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer told employees at an all-hands meeting Wednesday, according to Business Insider. Microsoft announced in August that its Project xCloud video game service would be …
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Microsoft has been testing its xCloud cloud-gaming platform, the technology that lets you play Xbox games on your phone, streamed from remote servers, for more than a year. Now we’ve come to the part where the free ride for testers ends and it’s time to pony up for the privilege via a subscription to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. And as frequently …
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Following up its wireless BlackWidow V3 announcement just a few weeks ago, Razer today launched its updates to the wired line of gaming keyboards with the $140 BlackWidow V3 (also in Quartz Pink!) and $100 BlackWidow V3 Tenkeyless (TKL, which means without a numeric keypad). Both are available now. The keyboards incorporate similar changes, including the upgraded Yellow (linear) and …
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Following last month’s Arctis 9 launch, SteelSeries is adding a couple of new flavors to its 2020 wireless headset lineup, the Xbox and PC-compatible Arctis 7X, and the PS4 and PS5-compatible 7P. Actually, the 7X is compatible with all platforms — Xbox (through Series X and S), PC, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation (through PS5) — while the 7P won’t work …
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