This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. Apple Arcade added another game to its $4.99/month gaming service on Friday: Charrua Soccer. The game aims to capture the spirit of the indigenous South American Charrúa people, and the importance of Uruguayan football in …
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Google gave some insight on when its cloud-gaming service will be available for free. Right now, Stadia users have to pay $129 for the Founder’s Edition and $9.99 a month, but that will change soon. Stadia boss Phil Harrison said in an interview with Protocol on Wednesday that the free tier of the service will come in the next few …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. In a packed ballroom at the Mirage hotel at CES 2020, a neon green logo beckoned me toward it like a siren calling to sailors in The Iliad. Fortunately for me there were no treacherous rocks waiting to send me to …
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The Pokemon Company and Nintendo have announced cloud gaming service Pokemon Home. The app will allow you to manage and trade all your Pokemon from mobile and Nintendo Switch games, including Pokemon Sword and Shield, Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu and Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee. You can also use Pokemon Home to access the Nintendo 3DS software Pokemon Bank if you …
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Shopping for a new computer monitor, maybe something for gaming that’ll also let you watch the coolest commercials from next week’s big game in style? Depending upon what you’re looking for, you can spend $80 at the low end all the way up to $1,000 or more. At the budget end of the spectrum, $80 will typically buy you a …
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This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. The newest game to join Apple Arcade’s growing catalog is Butter Royale from Mighty Bear Games. Players subscribed to Apple’s $4.99 monthly gaming service can check out this new game on Friday. It’ll be available on the iPhone, …
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Signs suggest that Samsung’s upcoming flagship phone, rumored to be called the Galaxy S20 and not the Galaxy S11, could be the first in 2020 to run its photography, gaming features, 5G-ready data connection and live maps navigation off the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chip. What does that mean? Up to 35% more power efficiency and up to 25% more powerful speeds overall. I got a chance …
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It seems like budget accessories are always the last to get updated. They’re overlooked until the latest designs and features are well established in their pricier siblings before they finally get the new look. SteelSeries’ $30 Rival 3 wired gaming mouse and Apex 3 and 5 keyboards — $50 and $100, respectively — have finally earned the new family designs …
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If the only kind of keyboard you’ve ever used is an off-the-shelf budget model, the one that came with your new PC purchase or the one built into your laptop, then you only know membrane keyboards. And while they’re cheap and quiet, they’re terrible. Just terrible. They’re soft and mushy and imprecise, which is bad both for touch typing and …
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Google Stadia is the search engine company’s cloud gaming service, but so far the only Android phone you can play it on has been a Pixel. While Google says support for other Android phones will come sometime in 2020, curiosity overtook my patience. I wanted to try the service on my Galaxy S10 Plus, and I was going to find a way. …
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