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May 2018

27 posts

Rockstar Games Announces 3 Titles Coming to Xbox One Backward Compatibility

Rockstar Games announced that three Rockstar Xbox 360 titles are coming to the Xbox One Backward Compatibility catalog on June 7, 2018. Those titles are: Grand Theft Auto: San Andres, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, and Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis. On Thursday, digital game owners will have instant access to the games on Xbox One, so they can download them from

Two New Pokémon Games Unveiled for Nintendo Switch

Return to the Kanto region and experience a classic Pokémon journey in a whole new way with Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee! on the Nintendo Switch! Coming November 16, 2018: https://t.co/kXLdxUMjjA #PokemonLetsGo pic.twitter.com/EKzQsTbDuE

Say Farewell to RuneScape Classic

The RuneScape Team has announced that it is time to say Farewell to RuneScape Classic. To be clear, RuneScape and Old School RuneScape will still be playable. RuneScape Classic was the first version of RuneScape, released in 2001. For many years, we've left all of the content from the original game available to play. Whilst it's seemingly been happily plodding

Tencent has Invested in Grinding Gear Games

Grinding Gear Games, creator of Path of Exile, announced in a forum post that Tencent has acquired a majority stake in Grinding Gear Games. The forum post was written by Grinding Gear Games Chief Chris Wilson. Our Chinese publisher, Tencent, has acquired a majority stake in Grinding Gear Games. We will remain an independent company and there won't be any big

26 Seasons of Doctor Who Coming to Twitch

Twitch announced that they will stream 26 Seasons of Doctor Who starting on May 29, 2018. That's over 500 episodes for Doctor Who fans to binge watch. Join us and tons of other fans in Twitch chat for over seven weeks of classic Doctor Who, starting with the 1963 episode “An Unearthly Child.” Together we'll make our way through the

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Alexa Spying

Back in the saddle and I get you all caught up on what is happening and has happened over the past week. Truly amazing story tonight on what happened to a family in Portland and their Amazon Alexa device that was spying / recording what they had to say and sending it to someone in their contact list. GeekNews.Chat (Mastodon)

Epic Games will Provide $100 Million for Fortnite Esports Tournaments

Epic Games is the creator of the Unreal series of games, the Unreal Engine, the Gears of War franchise, the Infinity Blade series, and Fortnite. Epic Games announced that it will provide $100,000,000 for Fortnite eSports tournament prize pools in the first year of competitive play. The Fortnite Team posted a blog on the Fortnite website with more details. Fortnite Competitors! Grab your gear, drop in and

Kraken Dice Iconic Mythical Collection on Kickstarter

Kraken Dice makes polyhedral dice sets for RPGs. They have a Kickstarter for their new Iconic Mythical dice collection. At the time I am writing this, the Kickstarter has five days to go and has reached (and exceeded) its funding goal. Kraken makes layered polyhedral dice for board games and RPG campaigns (like Dungeons & Dragons). The Kickstarter series of

Activinsights Measures Health at Wearable Technology Show

Activity trackers with built-in heart rate monitors are incredible pieces of technology. Sophisticated electronics crammed into a tiny space at relatively inexpensive cost and generating vast swathes of data. Fantastic as these devices are, they're aimed squarely at consumers. There's no guarantee that a thousand steps is a thousand steps. For medical applications, a validated wearable is required and these devices

Pay By Swatch with G+D Mobile Security at Wearable Technology Show

Continuing GNC's coverage of the Wearable Technology Show, I'm with Kenneth from G+D Mobile Security which specialise in "user and device identities". In particular, they're behind some of the technologies that enable wearables and mobile devices to act as ID for, say, transit or ski lift passes. The team at G+D Mobile Security work to put additional value into an

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Coming to Blizzard Battle.net

Blizzard announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 for PC will be available exclusively on Blizzard Battle.net this fall. By “exclusively”, Blizzard means that the game will not be accessible on Mac through Battle.Net. Some of Blizzard's other games are accessible by both Mac and PC. The Call of Duty Black Ops 4 website says the game will be

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Leaks, leaks and more leaks!

Hi there everyone, this would be my last day filling in for Todd while he is heading back home from meeting with his team down in Columbus Ohio. Well last week, websites were hacked and GPS locations exposed. In the news today...customers information exposed via leaks. Apple drops to #4 spot T-Mobile Sonos now offering discounted speaker and turntable sets 

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