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Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 4
The Surface Pro 3 established Microsoft as a company that had the chops to make it in the hardware business, with quarterly sales not only exceeding $1 billion - and sales of 3.5 billion in three years - but the immensely positive reception to the device also prompting Apple and Google to reveal their own devices in the image of the Surface line. Today, we see what Microsoft is envisioning for ...read more
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Intel sells game physics company Havok to Microsoft
Microsoft is betting big on gaming these days, as evidenced by the new DirectX 12 kit for PCs and Xbox as well as the upcoming Windows 10 release on Xbox One. Today, Microsoft deepens its toolkit for game developers with the acquisition of Havok, the leader of 3D game physics. Formerly owned by Intel, which acquired Havok back in 2007 for $110 million, Havok will will join DirectX 12, Visual ...read more
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Windows 10 has reportedly surpassed 100 million installations
Microsoft released Windows 10 as a free upgrade on July 29, and since then the operating system has been downloaded on millions of devices around the globe. According to Neowin's report a little over a month ago, the update had been installed on 75 million devices. Now, citing unnamed sources, Petri claims that this number has finally exceeded 100 million. Earlier this month, our sources ...read more
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YouTube said to be launching its ad-free subscription this October
After YouTube confirmed work on a subscription service earlier this year, we now have further details of their plans. The company sent out a mass email to content owners yesterday, again pushing them to agree to new license terms and imposing an October 22nd deadline. If content creators fail to agree to the new terms by this date then their “videos will no longer be available for public ...read more
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Apple has sold 13m of its new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus - a new record
Earlier this month, Apple unveiled the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus - and while both handsets look rather similar to their immediate predecessors, they're packed full of new features and improvements. The latest devices officially went on sale three days ago - although pre-orders have been open for longer - and today, the company revealed just how popular they've proved to be. Despite only being ...read more
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There’s an invincibility glitch in Super Mario Maker
A trick has been discovered for making Mario invincible, which will likely make its way into some levels online before being patched out. The discovery came from a fan of GameXplain, Abdul, who informed the team of it. The video above shows how to replicate the glitch. You need to build a door on top of a spike pit, and upgrade Mario to a third form (like Fire Mario or Tanooki Mario). You ...read more
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Star Fox Zero delayed to 2016
Nintendo has announced that Star Fox Zero is not releasing in 2015. A message from designer Shigeru Miyamoto was posted earlier, revealing the news. “Although we felt that the development had been progressing well, we now believe that we will need a little more time to work on areas such as the unprecedented discovery that we want players to experience in the game by using two screens, and ...read more
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Super Mario Maker players have uploaded over 1M levels since launch
Over one million Super Mario Maker courses have been uploaded since the game launched last week. It’s very popular, apparently, and critics seems to love it. The video posted above gives you a look at some of the user created levels. And don’t forget: there’s a Super Mario Maker level coming to Super Smash Bros. on both 3DS and Wii U on September 30.
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Apple iOS 9 is available to download now; watchOS 2 delayed due to bug
Last week, Apple hosted one of its most significant launch events for some time, unveiling a wide range of new and improved products, including a new Apple TV box, the giant iPad Pro, and the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. Alongside its new hardware, the company is also releasing updated software, including the latest version of its mobile operating system - and today, the rollout of iOS 9 begins.
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Super Mario Maker Patch Removes 9 Day Restriction
One of the most annoying – and inexplicable – restrictions on Nintendo’s Super Mario Maker was how all tools would not be available from the get go- rather, they would unlock over a period of the next nine days automatically. It made no sense to have them timegated like that, and only added an annoying wrinkle nobody really liked. Everyone understood the ostensible reason – Nintendo ...read more
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