Tuesday, January 5, 2021

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You can now listen to the Persona game soundtracks on Spotify

Posted: 05 Jan 2021 02:43 AM PST

The Persona games are undeniably stylish. A unique JRPG series that blends modern anime visuals with excellent dungeon crawling and an engrossing slice-of-life simulator. My favorite element of the Persona franchise, though, is the music. If you love...

Nintendo is buying the developer of Luigi's Mansion 3

Posted: 05 Jan 2021 01:13 AM PST

Nintendo has agreed to buy Next Level Games, the developer of the Luigi's Mansion series, as reported by The Verge. As a second-party partner, the Vancouver-based company already works exclusively on Nintendo platforms. However, the acquisition will...

Asobo Studio shows off real-time snow in 'Microsoft Flight Simulator'

Posted: 04 Jan 2021 10:25 PM PST

Last month, Microsoft Flight Simulator developer Asobo Studio released an update that made the program compatible with most VR headsets. One of the enhancements that rolled out with it is snow and ice coverage for Flight Simulator's Live Weather feat...

Twitter is buying a podcast app to help build its audio Spaces

Posted: 04 Jan 2021 06:50 PM PST

Last month Twitter publicly announced it's testing Spaces, which operate as audio-enabled chat rooms within the social networking site. Now it's acquired the team behind Breaker, a podcast app that focused on community and social elements since it st...

Instagram tests new design for Stories on desktop

Posted: 04 Jan 2021 03:30 PM PST

Browsing Instagram Stories from your desktop may soon be a bit easier: Instagram is testing a new design for Stories on its website that gives the feature a much-needed facelift. With the new look, Stories appear in a carousel rather than a single ti...

Singapore police can access data from the country's contract tracing app

Posted: 04 Jan 2021 02:55 PM PST

With a nearly 80 percent uptake among the country's population, Singapore's TraceTogether app is one of the best examples of what a successful centralized contact tracing effort can look like as countries across the world struggle to contain the coro...

Forgotten PS1 game 'Magic Castle' finally emerges two decades later

Posted: 04 Jan 2021 12:59 PM PST

It might have taken more than 20 years, but a game intended for the original PlayStation has at last made its way into the world. A group of Japanese developers worked on Magic Castle for eight months in the late '90s. They used Sony's Net Yaroze, a...

Massachusetts plans to ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035

Posted: 04 Jan 2021 12:03 PM PST

Back in September, Governor Gavin Newsom announced California would ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles by 2035. Massachusetts says it now plans to do the same. As part of the state's 2050 Decarbonization Roadmap, which was first...

After almost four years, the last 'Nier: Automata' secret has been found

Posted: 04 Jan 2021 11:22 AM PST

Nearly four years after NieR: Automata was released, a modder has discovered the RPG's final secret. Lance McDonald spotted some unfamiliar code when he was reverse engineering the game. He figured out it related to a cheat code that allows players t...

Amazon's Haven healthcare venture is reportedly disbanding

Posted: 04 Jan 2021 10:56 AM PST

Three years after Amazon started a healthcare venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase, the trio have decided to call it quits. CNBC reports that the organization, once called Haven, is disbanding, and the company will likely shut down by t...

Discovery+ launches today, and it's available on Fire TV, Roku and more

Posted: 04 Jan 2021 10:10 AM PST

Discovery waited until the last possible moment to announce where you can stream content from Discovery+. But now that the service is officially available in the US, the company has finally shared that information. The list of places where you can do...

A major Slack outage welcomed us back to work this morning

Posted: 04 Jan 2021 08:11 AM PST

So much for a smooth return to work after the holidays. Your first day back at the office (or your desk at home) might have been disrupted when Slack experienced serious issues on Monday morning. At first, the incident was somewhat limited as message...

Venmo's mobile app can now cash your checks

Posted: 04 Jan 2021 07:50 AM PST

Venmo's bid to become your banking hub now covers your checks. The PayPal-owned brand is launching a Cash a Check feature in its Android and iOS apps that lets you deposit money without using your bank's app or visiting a physical location (a risky p...

Comedy Central, MTV and more are coming to Hulu’s live TV service

Posted: 04 Jan 2021 07:22 AM PST

Subscribers to Hulu's live TV service are about to get more bang for their buck. Under an expanded distribution deal, 14 more ViacomCBS cable networks are on the way to Hulu + Live TV in the form of BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Ne...

Epic Games' next headquarters will replace a local shopping mall

Posted: 04 Jan 2021 07:10 AM PST

Many tech companies build their new campuses on discarded office space or other familiar territory, but Epic Games is trying something... different. Eurogamer reports that the Fortnite developer is taking control of a hometown shopping mall, Cary Tow...

‘Wild Rift’ finally made me a ‘League of Legends’ player

Posted: 04 Jan 2021 07:00 AM PST

A couple of years ago, I decided to open Twitch and watch some professional League of Legends. I had never played the MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) but wanted to learn about the broader esports industry and suspected the experience would une...

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 480 brings 5G to even cheaper phones

Posted: 04 Jan 2021 06:30 AM PST

Despite the efforts of companies like Samsung and Xiaomi, 5G support is still mostly limited to more expensive phones. But starting this year, you're likely to see the feature make its way to a greater number of budget phones thanks to the introducti...

Breath of the Wild's minor characters are likely advanced Miis

Posted: 04 Jan 2021 05:05 AM PST

For years, fans have theorized that Nintendo used Miis to build many of the NPCs (non-player characters) in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Many share Mii-like characteristics — the shape of their face, eyes, nose and mouth, for instance — a...

HP Reverb G2 review: A great VR headset with middling controllers

Posted: 04 Jan 2021 05:00 AM PST

Does the world need another PC VR headset? Oculus seems to be giving up on that market and focusing entirely on the Quest 2, a $299 standalone device that can still provide a decent high-end VR experience when connected to a computer. Valve's Index w...
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