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ESA: Nintendo is ‘committed to participating’ in E3 2020

February 12, 2020
Nintendo is going to attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show, according to the group that organizes the event. The Entertainment Software Association issued a press release today that claims Nintendo, among others, will have a presence at the annual industry gathering. Here’s how the release reads: “Several leading video game companies have already committed to…
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Verizon won’t offer the regular Galaxy S20 until Q2 because of its 5G network

February 12, 2020
One of the biggest upgrades Samsung has made to the Galaxy S20 series is that every model supports 5G. In the US, we’re only getting the 5G versions of the Galaxy S20 and, as a result, Verizon won’t see the device for a little while because its network isn’t supported. At launch, the Galaxy S20 series comes with both 5G and LTE-only variants, but in the US we’re not getting those LTE…
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Tim Sweeney: Android is a fake open system, and iOS is worse

February 12, 2020
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney opened the Dice Summit game event in Las Vegas today with a call to make the industry more open and liberate it from the monopolistic practices of platform owners such as Google and Apple. In a talk about his vision for games in the next decade, Sweeney alternated between criticizing all of the big players in the game industry to criticizing specific players with…
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First TV ad of Xiaomi Mi 10 reveals key features

February 12, 2020
Xiaomi will release the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro flagships tomorrow in China, and we got to see their first TV ad, posted on YouTube. In the 15-second clip we can see some of the highlights the company is emphasizing – the new MIUI 11, a wide-angle shooter, a big display…
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Recording 8K video with a Galaxy S20 will take a toll on storage, but not as much as you think

February 12, 2020
Samsung’s new flagship trio is capable of recording 8K video at 24fps, an industry first. Naturally, this comes with increased storage requirements, but it’s not as bad as you may have thought. According to Samsung’s official numbers, 1 minute of 8K video results in a 600MB file (using the HEVC codec). That’s less than double the 350MB file you get when you record 1 minute of 4K video with a…
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