A dev at Respawn Entertainment has confirmed that the high-profile mech-shooter Titanfall won't hit 1080p on Xbox One.
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A “closer to the metal” version of Direct X is in the works, and while AMD says it supports such efforts, what does it mean for the future of PC Gaming? Microsoft may be looking to capitalize on AMD’s struggle with Mantle with its next version of DirectX by integrating vendor specific extensions to allow [...]
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Samsung is set to commercially launch its first 64-bit offerings by the time Google makes a 64-bit version of Android available. In an interview with CNET, Kyushik Hong, vice president of marketing for Samsung’s system LSI business, said that the manufacturer will be ready with its 64-bit chips as soon as there is an ecosystem [...]
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Square Enix finally unveils the trailer for Rise of Mana, the newest game in the Mana series that is coming soon on iOS and Android. The Mana (Seiken Densetsu in Japan) series may not have Final Fantasy’s big and expansive international fan base, but even long before Square Enix, it has been one of Square’s [...]
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Markus “Notch” Persson is in talks with Warner Bros. in launching a feature film based on Minecraft. Minecraft, one of the bestselling indie games of all time, will soon be turned into a full-length feature film by Warner Bros. Markus “Notch” Persson, the creator of the game, announced on Twitter that talks are undergoing with [...]
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An Apple whitepaper on iOS security explains what happens in an iMessage conversation, and why it is more secure than most other chat apps. But are we sure no one is listening in? Judging by the amount by which Facebook acquired WhatsApp in the past week, there is a big interest in such apps — [...]
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Respawn Entertainment has announced that their mech-shooter Titanfall is finalized and ready to ship, and celebrates the game's impending launch via a commemorative Twitter post.
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Google is targeting a $50 price point for its modular smartphone, which will see a commercial launch next year. Google may have sold Motorola to Lenovo for $2.9 billion, but it did retain Motorola’s unit that was working on the Project Ara modular smartphone. Google dished out more details about the handset earlier this week, [...]
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Facebook is shutting down its dedicated desktop Messenger clients for Windows and Firefox this coming Monday, March 3rd. Facebook is killing off its dedicated client for Windows desktops starting March 3, 2014. This comes after the social network announced that it is likewise shutting down its facebook.com email service, which provides all users with a [...]
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The struggling company says it may very well enter the tablet market once again after a failed attempt in 2011. BlackBerry PlayBook was the company’s first and only tablet offering. Even though it looked promising on the surface, it failed to resonate with customers, who picked up iPads and Android tablets in droves. The PlayBook [...]
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Fujitsu enriches potential touch browsing experience by giving the sensation of roughness and smoothness to a tablet’s surface. Haptic feedback, also known as resistive or force feedback, is an important feature in touchscreens today. Vibrations for example, give the sensation of actually pressing something, against what would otherwise be a simple, featureless touch panel surface. [...]
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Expected out on March 25, the all new HTC One has posed for Mr. Blurrycam again, also making a censored appearance in a hilarious official teaser video. Mocking Samsung’s Galaxy S5 didn’t quite work out for HTC, despite there being so much about the “next big thing” you could ridicule, but luckily for the Taiwanese, [...]
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HWTrek seeks to help people overcome the manufacturing hurdle in getting their crowdfunded hardware projects off the ground through mentorship. Lucas Wang, the CEO of HWTrek, isn’t that impressed with FitBit’s Force activity tracker. Examining the device in his Taipei office, Wang offers a critique of the device: the display is not aligned perfectly with [...]
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Redmond is reportedly making this move to better compete against the barrage of low-cost Android phones in the market. There are countless OEMs developing Android phones, some are focusing solely on the low-end market and flooding it with cheap devices that try their best to offer a decent smartphone experience. If rumors are correct, Microsoft [...]
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Early interest in Samsung’s freshly unveiled Galaxy S5 seems to be almost abnormally high, according to a T-Mobile exec, while pricing remains a puzzle, but one that’s getting increasingly easier to solve. Who said the Galaxy S5 is a dire disappointment? More of the same, anyone? A shoddy rehash rather than a “next big thing”, [...]
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Nokia’s surprising trio of Android-based smartphones will reportedly be restricted to “growth markets”, thus dodging North America, and should run 75% of existing Android apps with no glitches or tweaks needed. Let’s cut the act, Nokia didn’t exactly catch us off guard at the Mobile World Congress, by rolling out a handheld built on AOSP [...]
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Nintendo has announced that they will be shutting down online support for online services like matchmaking and leaderboards for the Wii and DS systems starting May 20.
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It appears that Bethesda's upcoming next-gen reboot of the classic Wolfenstein series will be on equal footing on both consoles, thus circumventing yet another "resolution gate" rivalry.
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LTE Category 6 offers twice as much bandwidth as LTE Category 4 and will be commercially available later this year. Samsung and Qualcomm conducted the first live demonstrations of LTE Category 6 connectivity at the Mobile World Congress yesterday. The device used to showcase the new connectivity medium was a modified Galaxy Note 3 that [...]
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The long-awaited Google Now launcher is available on the Play Store, but currently works only on Nexus handsets and Google Play Edition devices — but there’s a workaround for that. Back when Google launched the Nexus 5, it mentioned that it would bring the Google Now (Google Experience) launcher to other devices shortly. It is [...]
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Boeing’s handset runs on Android and comes with the ability to self-destruct if tampered with. Boeing announced that it was working on a secure handset last year, with an eventual release later this year. The handset will be a “sealed device” and will require users to sign an end-user nondisclosure agreement. The device will primarily [...]
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Elon Musk’s company is raising money to build a plant that will increase the output of battery components by several folds to aid in lowering the cost of owning an all-electric Tesla. Teslas aren’t the most affordable luxury toys out there, but CEO Elon Musk thinks that his company can churn out much more affordable [...]
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It turns out that the internet search giant wasn’t interested in acquiring WhatsApp in the first place. WhatsApp’s $19 billion acquisition by Facebook has got a lot of people talking, and it even got the rumor mill churning. It was rumored that Google was planning to outbid Facebook for WhatsApp, but the truth is the [...]
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Need a notification machine that is a lot simpler than Google Glass while still being equally fashionable? Then these pair of glasses might be the wearable tech for you. Wearable tech comes in many forms and sizes nowadays, with the head wearable ones going under a separate category. But while many of these potential products [...]
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The search engine giant apparently doesn’t want its wearable to be banned for drivers on the road. Google Glass is still very much in a beta stage, but with a planned public release expected later this year, the company really needs to find a way around any possible legal issues that may arise once Glass [...]
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Sony is trying to eke out a few more PlayStation 3 sales by launching a Lego The Hobbit bundle later this year. Sony announced that it will launch a Lego The Hobbit PlayStation 3 bundle in North America for $269. The game itself is launching April 8 in North America and April 11 in other [...]
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Apple has finally released an OS X update that plugs the gaping security hole left open by the SSL encryption bug. Last week it was discovered that iOS had a security vulnerability which could have potentially put millions at risk, Apple released iOS 7.0.6 out of the blue to fix it. Later the company revealed [...]
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Gossip of a higher-end, pricier, metal-made, Quad HD display-toting Samsung Galaxy S5 coming just months behind the “regular” S5 refuse to go away, albeit they’ve clearly lost some steam. They say it’s not over until the fat lady sings. And though Samsung’s Galaxy S5 unveil at the Mobile World Congress starred the Barcelona Opera House [...]
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AMD seems to be getting ahead of itself in trying to bring Android to its mobile-centric APUs. AMD announced at Mobile World Congress on Tuesday that its BlueStacks software, which offers users the ability to virtualize Android on Windows, is now ready to be launched and will be available from retailers, initially in Europe, later [...]
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Codenamed “Saltbay”, Intel’s reference designs give a peek at what Merrifield-based phones might look like. Intel didn’t have any compelling hardware wins to share at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress — either in announcement of physical form — it did bring along plenty of reference designs. Spotted on the showfloor by VR-Zone Chinese’s Chris Low, “Saltbay” [...]
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Quad-core mobile processors are so 2013, but Samsung is late to the game with the eight core SoC layout. Samsung announced two new SoCs at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The first offering is the Exynos 5422, which is a minor update to the Exynos 5420. The architecture is the same, but the Exynos [...]
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Quad-core mobile processors are so 2013, but Samsung is late to the game with this SoC layout. Samsung announced two new SoCs at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The first offering is the Exynos 5422, which is a minor update to the Exynos 5420. The architecture is the same, but the Exynos 5422 is [...]
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Motorola is working on a smartwatch, a successor to the Moto X, and is working on bringing the Moto Maker customization utility to more markets. Motorola held a Q&A event at the Mobile World Congress, where it announced that it is working on a smartwatch that will be available sometime later this year. It didn’t [...]
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You might want to get a larger SSD before Titanfall launches on March 11. When asked about how big the download size would be for Titanfall, Respawn’s Vince Zampella announced that the game would be a 21 GB download, and would require 48 GB of installation space. While PC games usually require a lot of [...]
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A man assaults and steals an explorer’s Google Glass at a bar. A woman in San Francisco recently reported that someone at a bar called ‘Molotov’ assaulted her and took off with her $1,500 space-age toy. “OMG so you’ll never believe this but… I got verbally and physically assaulted and robbed last night in the [...]
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Both Line and Telegram report massive increase in new sign ups after WhatsApp experienced an outage. Most people don’t usually bat an eyelid when there are billion dollar acquisitions in the technology industry, but since last week, one particular acquisition has got everyone talking. I’m talking about Facebook buying WhatsApp, that too for a staggering [...]
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Toshiba unveils a new application processor that combines a high-speed wireless LAN function and NAND flash memory. Increased internet data transfer speeds over the past few years have undoubtedly resulted in the equal increase in web-based audio and video content, which are as of today streamed and downloaded in a wide variety of mobile devices. [...]
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BlackBerry CEO John Chen says he would recommend the board to take a $19 billion buyout offer for BlackBerry Messenger. It goes without saying that no one’s going to offer $19 billion for BBM, it has roughly 80 million users as opposed to over 460 million on WhatsApp, and even that isn’t enough to truly [...]
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Sony is off to a great start with the PlayStation 4 in its home market. Sony launched the PlayStation 4 console in the Japanese market last weekend, and according to Famitsu, the manufacturer has already sold 322,083 consoles in the first two days of availability. In contrast, Sony managed to sell only 88,443 PlayStation 3 [...]
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Samsung’s big day yesterday was just about to get disrupted by rivals HTC and Nokia, which took to Twitter to ridicule the freshly unveiled Galaxy S5 and promote their own products in the process. It’s no longer a surprise when officials or social media managers for the main players engaged in the mobile wars scoff [...]
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Blackberry’s latest (final?) attempt at a comeback starts at 2014’s Mobile World Congress, where John Chen, the company’s Executive Chairman and CEO, has taken the wraps off two new low-cost, mid-range smartphones. The fruits of BlackBerry’s collaboration with Foxconn are at last visible in Barcelona, as the Z3, internally codenamed “Jakarta”, is being showcased as [...]
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We have a look at the key differences and upgrades between the Playstation 4 and Playstation 3 controllers. The Sony PlayStation 3 was not a major success for Sony. This gaming console was outdone by the wide success of the Microsoft Xbox 360. And with the arrival of several other consoles like the Nintendo Wii, [...]
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Thousands of machines worldwide have been found infected by a new botnet called “Pony” that is designed to steal virtual currencies. Trustwave, an Internet security firm, announced yesterday that it found evidence of a new botnet by the name of Pony that is designed to steal virtual currencies. The firm mentioned that the botnet compromised [...]
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Troubled exchange house disappears from the web and Bitcoin takes another nose dive. The closest thing that the Bitcoin world has to a major bank like Citi or HSBC disappeared from the web Tuesday, sending the price of the cryptocurrency into a mid-day freefall. Sometime on Tuesday the public facing website of Mt. Gox was [...]
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Launched back in November 2010, the @facebook.com email service didn’t exactly take off. Did you know that you have an email address on Facebook’s domain? Probably not, and that’s why the social media giant is looking to shut the service down. “It seems wrong that an email message from your best friend gets sandwiched between [...]
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The ailing Canadian manufacturer is expected to bring back the “belt” of four physical keys, with a trackpad in the middle in a bid to appeal to former loyalists. BlackBerry may have replaced trackballs with trackpads a long time back but it was only last year when it removed the belt of keys that had [...]
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Hideo Kojima is a beloved figure within the industry who has given birth to one of the most pivotal franchises in gaming history, but now he finds himself wanting to move on from Metal Gear Solid.
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The Gear Fit is a fitness tracker that offers similar functionality to the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches. In addition to the Tizen-based Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo, Samsung has announced a new fitness tracker called the Gear Fit. The device looks like a standard fitness tracker and comes with a 1.84-inch [...]
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Oculus VR has sold quite a few of its landmark VR headsets, but production has been hampered due to the scarcity of core components, leading to a temporary stall in sales.
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With the Galaxy S5, Samsung has retained the best elements of the Galaxy S4 and tweaked the rest to create a handset that is one of the best we’ve seen thus far. After a dizzying amount of leaks and rumors, the Galaxy S5 is official. The device looks very similar to the Galaxy S4 from [...]
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