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The ESA announces partnership with IGN, Future Games, and more

Mustafa Mahmoud 2 days ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming The ESA, who is responsible for the annual E3 gaming convention, recently confirmed that after skipping 2020, E3 would be coming back later this year. With the event being digital this year, and in order to “extend its reach to video game fans worldwide,”… Read more

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla ‘Wrath of the Druids’ expansion releasing in May

Matthew Wilson 2 days ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Last month, Ubisoft announced Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s first major expansion, “Wrath of the Druids”. While the expansion was originally due to release later this month, the development team needs an extra couple of weeks, pushing the expansion back into May. In a tweet last… Read more

Apex Legends has surpassed 100 million players

Mustafa Mahmoud 2 days ago Featured Tech News, Online, Software & Gaming, Tech News Since its surprise launch in February 2019, Apex Legends has become one of the major players in the free-to-play Battle Royale genre of games. Though growth has slowed down substantially, EA reported that Apex Legends has now officially surpassed 100 million… Read more

Outdated VPN device led to Capcom cyberattack

Matthew Wilson 2 days ago Featured Tech News, Security, Software & Gaming In November 2020, Capcom confirmed it had suffered a huge data breach, with attackers stealing hundreds of thousands of confidential records and other data, including personal information of employees and plans for future games. In an update this week, Capcom confirms that it… Read more

Peak Design’s new magnet-powered phone case system delayed until August

Peak Design has announced it is delaying shipment of products in its Kickstarter campaign for Mobile, a broad range of phone accessories designed to make it easy to mount your phone on everything from a motorcycle handlebar to a simple dock on your desk. It is meant to be compatible with iPhones and Samsung Galaxy… Read more

You ever think about how Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC”

There’s an Apple event next week, and it’s looking fairly likely that we’ll see updated models of the iPad Pro and perhaps the iPad Mini. Which is great, because it made me think about the Eee PC, which was either one of the greatest short-lived success stories in tech history or a collective delusion shared… Read more

Atlast! Packs 10-Core Intel Core i9 CPU Into Small, Fanless Desktop

Home News (Image credit: Atlast! Solutions) Nowadays there are loads of small form-factor (SFF) systems featuring fairly high performance, there are also fanless PCss that can offer performance of regular desktops. Unfortunately, SFF and fanless worlds rarely intersect and passively cooled compact desktops are extremely rare. Yet, they exist. Recently Atlast! Solutions introduced its Sigao… Read more

Project CHIP will finally ship later this year

Project Connected Home over IP (CHIP), the awkwardly-named-but-interesting smart home partnership between Apple, Amazon, Google, and over 170 other companies that’s supposed to make everything more compatible should finally start showing some results later this year. According to a webinar hosted by the Zigbee Alliance earlier this week, companies participating in the program will be… Read more

What to expect from Apple’s ‘Spring Loaded’ event

Apple has officially announced its “Spring Loaded” event for April 20th, its first major product announcement of 2021. Unlike a lot of Apple’s events, its spring events tend to be a bit more scattershot: one year might see high-end iPads, another a more education-focused event, or a launch of a comprehensive service strategy. This year,… Read more

Stromer ST2 e-bike review: too hot for Europe

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. The words “Swiss design” conjure images of luxury watch movements and delicately sculpted eyeglasses, not hulking e-bikes with thickly welded frames and face-melting power. Stromer is here to challenge those assumptions and force a rethink of how… Read more

Apple’s Spring Loaded event: rumors, news, and announcements

The event kicks off at 1PM ET / 10AM PT on April 20th Contributors: Verge Staff Spring has sprung and with it, the first Apple event of the year. The company successfully brought custom Arm chips to its Macs last year, and now it’s continuing its product updates with an event called “Spring Loaded.” Outside… Read more

DJI Air 2S initial review: Take flight

(Pocket-lint) – DJI has long been the champion of the consumer drone market, pushing boundaries and implenting technology that makes it easy for the average person to do previously impossible aerial photography and videography. It was undoubtedly through the Mavic series that it saw success reach new heights, but over the past couple of years… Read more

2022’s iPhone 14 will apparently boast 8K video, 5.4-inch model to get the chop

Home News (Image credit: Apple) Forget iPhone 13 – iPhone 14 will bring a host of drastic changes, says respected tech analyst Ming-Chu Kuo. Apparently, Apple’s 2022 iPhone will boast a notch-less design and 8K video recording for the first time. It’s bad news for iPhone Mini fans, though: Kuo claims Apple will kill off… Read more

Microsoft’s Jet-Engine Flight Sim PC Probably Isn’t as Loud as It Looks

Home News (Image credit: Microsoft) Microsoft’s and Xbox are giving away a gaming PC to celebrate the Microsoft Flight Simulator’s France and Benelux update, and it sure fits the game’s aesthetic. The build looks like a jet engine, or at least part of one. Putting out of mind the idea of just two-thirds of a… Read more

Microsoft is giving away a custom Flight Simulator PC that won’t play Flight Simulator at max settings

If I were the Microsoft marketing executive pitching a once-in-a-lifetime giveaway of an incredible custom-built Flight Simulator PC, I would do two things: 1) I would probably make it look like a full jet engine, not half an exposed jet engine, to avoid reminding people how airplanes can rarely (but terrifyingly) fail: 2) I would… Read more