Alto’s Odyssey and its precursor Alto’s Adventure — two of the most popular and meditative mobile games around — made the leap from casual gaming to consoles and PCs in August when they arrived on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and the Epic Games Store. Now, the version for Nintendo Switch is arriving on Nov. 26, with preorders starting Thursday. …
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Activision’s Call of Duty is one of the biggest game franchises ever. Last year’s edition, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, made more than $1 billion for the gaming giant within two months of launch. Producing a massive game like Call of Duty is never easy, especially when preparing for new, next-generation game console hardware. Throw in a global pandemic and things …
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Like many people, I’d been waiting for Jabra to put out a set of noise-canceling true-wireless earbuds. It finally has: the Elite 85t ($230, £220, AU$349). What I didn’t anticipate, however, was that it would also add noise cancellation to the earlier Elite 75t and Elite Active 75t via a firmware upgrade. This gives you two Jabra noise-canceling options, one significantly less expensive than …
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It all started with two trips to China. The first, in August 2019, brought Jason Keats to Hong Kong just as protesters took over the airport. The head of R&D for the once-buzzy startup Essential Products was there to work on the company’s upcoming Project Gem, an eye-catching new smartphone with an unusual, skinny design. The second was in January. …
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Game consoles. Apple hardware and software. Those were the two big themes of the week gone by. Those of you who’ve been hankering to dive into the next generation of gaming got your wish. First, after months of teasing, Microsoft made its Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S available in stores and online. A few days later, Sony followed …
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Walmart is making its PS5 inventory available to buy on its site in several timeslots Thursday, but its site got overwhelmed by customers rushing to buy Sony’s next-gen PlayStation during the first wave. CNET staffers and people on social media reported having the console in their cart with shipping info before the site crashed and said it was out of …
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Known for its excellent sounding, retro-designed, open-back wired headphones, Grado has long been a favorite among audiophiles, earning extra points for building many of its headphones by hand in Brooklyn, New York for over 60 years. But with the world moving to wireless audio, the company has slowly shifted into the Bluetooth headphone arena, first with its GW100 on-ear model (in 2018) and …
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Roku’s rollout of support for Apple’s AirPlay 2 and HomeKit is now underway. On Wednesday the streaming giant announced that it has begun issuing the update, part of Roku OS 9.4, to a variety of its devices including its Ultra streaming box, Streambar and Smart Soundbar speakers, as well as the Streaming Stick Plus and Premiere streaming sticks. The company says …
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The Leica Q and its successor, the Q2, has long been one of my favorite fixed-lens cameras. Since Sony seems to have forgotten its own RX1R II from 2015, the Q2 is the only full-frame compact still current. And now the Q2’s new sibling, the $5,995 Leica Q2 Monochrom, joins it as the only dedicated black-and-white compact camera around. Priced at …
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Update, Nov. 10: Read our reviews of the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. The day has come: The Xbox Series X and the smaller, cheaper Series S have officially launched. This is exciting news, particularly if you’re one of the lucky ones who actually snagged a preorder. The new Xbox was meant to launch alongside a new Halo, but the delay of Halo …
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