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Even more developers have left Google Stadia

Mustafa Mahmoud 15 hours ago Featured Tech News, Online, Software & Gaming Recently we reported that the vice president of Google Stadia had left the company, a troubling move for Google’s game streaming platform. It has now been announced that even more developers have left the company, bringing doubt into the platform’s future. Yesterday we… Read more

Xbox Series X/S FPS Boost now works on 97 backwards compatible games

Home / Software & Gaming / Xbox Series X/S FPS Boost now works on 97 backwards compatible games Matthew Wilson 16 hours ago Software & Gaming Back in February, the Xbox backwards compatible team launched FPS Boost, a method of getting older generation games to run at up to 120 frames per second on Xbox… Read more

Activision confirms Sledgehammer as lead studio for Call of Duty 2021

Matthew Wilson 18 hours ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Activision is finally opening up about its plans for Call of Duty in 2021. During a financial call that took place last night, the publisher confirmed that Sledgehammer Games is leading development for this year’s game. Speaking on this year’s plans, Activision Blizzard COO,… Read more

Blizzard to launch WoW Classic: The Burning Crusade in June

Matthew Wilson 19 hours ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming World of Warcraft Classic is going through some changes this year, with Blizzard launching new servers for The Burning Crusade expansion. There is currently an on-going beta for this but a release date has not been announced – although a Battle.net update may have… Read more

2B from NieR: Automata is coming to Fall Guys

Mustafa Mahmoud 2 days ago Featured Tech News, Online, Software & Gaming Ever since it was popularised by Fortnite, many different video games have seen crossover content, especially in battle royales. Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, the Takeshi’s Castle styled game has likewise followed suit, with the latest leaks revealing that upcoming skins will include 2B… Read more

Stadia’s Vice President has left the company

Mustafa Mahmoud 2 days ago Featured Tech News, Online, Software & Gaming In less than two years, Google Stadia has gone from a promising new cloud based platform which positioned itself as the future of gaming, to a shell of itself, with many of its promises still unfulfilled. In another blow to the game streaming… Read more

Roccat introduces Magma And Pyro RGB gaming keyboards

João Silva 2 days ago Keyboards Roccat has two new keyboards hitting the market – the Magma and Pyro RGB. The Magma is a membrane keyboard with a fully illuminated RGB top place, while the Pyro is a mechanical keyboard with more traditional per-key RGB lighting. The Roccat Pyro keyboard is the most feature-packed of… Read more

Apple execs discussed dropping App Store revenue split back in 2011

Home / Lifestyle / Mobile / Apple / Apple execs discussed dropping App Store revenue split back in 2011 Matthew Wilson 2 days ago Apple, Featured Tech News Ever since the launch of the iOS App Store, Apple has taken a 30 percent revenue cut from developers. Now known as the ‘Apple Tax’, Epic Games… Read more

Epic Games Store expected to become profitable by 2024

Matthew Wilson 2 days ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming A few weeks ago, we learned that Epic Games had spent around $330 million on obtaining Epic Games Store exclusives so far. Now, thanks to testimony given during the first day of the Epic Games v Apple trial, we know that the Epic Games… Read more

Epic v. Apple turns into Windows v. Xbox

Is an iPhone more like a PC or an Xbox? That question was asked — implicitly and explicitly — over and over on the third day of Epic v. Apple testimony. The antitrust trial started on Monday with some heady pronunciations about Fortnite, the game and/or metaverse at the heart of the case. Yesterday, both… Read more

SpaceX successfully landed a Starship prototype for the first time

SpaceX launched a high-altitude Starship prototype rocket and successfully landed it for the first time on Wednesday, overcoming a key technical challenge in Elon Musk’s whirlwind test campaign to build a fully reusable Mars rocket. Musk has said the SN15 rocket contained “hundreds of design improvements” over past high-altitude prototypes, which were all destroyed during… Read more

New York Bill Could Ban Crypto Mining to Study Environmental Effects

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock, Edited by Tom’s Hardware) A bill proposed in New York state by state Sen. Kevin S. Parker could stop cryptocurrency mining to study and issue findings on how it affects the environment. The bill, NY State Senate Bill S6486, was first reported on by Earther. Beyond making PC components notoriously… Read more

A bug in Peloton’s API may have exposed a whole lot of user data

An old version of Peloton’s API, the software that allows the company’s bikes and recalled treadmills to communicate with its servers, may have exposed private customer profiles, according to a report from TechCrunch. The bug was first spotted by Jan Masters, a security researcher at Pen Test Partners, and reported to Peloton on January 20th,… Read more

Microsoft’s feud with Apple over xCloud on iOS got a rival kicked from the App Store

In 2020, Microsoft was battling to bring xCloud or Xbox Game Streaming to the iPhone and iPad, and the conversations had an unlikely victim: Shadow — a third-party cloud gaming app that lets you stream PC games to an iPhone or iPad. Emails between Microsoft and Apple, revealed in the Epic v. Apple trial today,… Read more

Raja Koduri Teases Ponte Vecchio Again as GPU Scores Design Win

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel’s graphics guru Raja Koduri on Wednesday once again teased his Twitter followers with an animated image of how the company’s Ponte Vecchio compute GPU will be made. He posted the teaser just a day after it was revealed that the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre will use Intel’s upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs as… Read more