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Nintendo Joy-Con controllers get wireless-charging grip

I don’t like wires. They’re coarse and rough and irritating. And they get everywhere. Not like wireless. Wireless is soft and smooth. And it’s also a new charging option for your Nintendo Switch Joy-Con controllers. Wireless-power company Powercast is launching the Wireless Charging Grip that can recharge the Switch gamepads without having to ever plug in. The new grip is launching on Amazon…
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IKEA's smart blinds now work with Apple HomeKit

IKEA’s smart blinds should be much easier to control if you live in an Apple-centric household. The home furnishing giant is now rolling out HomeKit support for its FYRTUR blinds, making them easy to control without either using the remote or relying on Google Assistant.
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'Fortnite' made a historic $1.8 billion in 2019

Fortnite won its chicken dinner in 2019 by grossing $1.8 billion in sales, more than any single-year sales total in videogame history. While the game itself is technically free-to-play, Epic Games offers a $10 per month Battle Pass as well as myriad in-game item purchases — from clothing and weapons to dance mores and player reactions — to keep the game’s 125 million active players coming…
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Grand Theft Auto V comes to Xbox Game Pass

Microsoft announced today that Grand Theft Auto V is now available on Xbox Game Pass. Grand Theft Auto V is one of the most popular games of all time. The open-world game has sold over 115 million copies since its release in 2013. Despite its age, it remained a top-seller in…
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Nintendo Switch Lite 3 months later

Since Nintendo launched the Switch Lite on September 20, I have transitioned to using it as one of my primary gaming devices. And while I immediately fell in love with the dedicated handheld, I’ve had some concerns about durability. I take the Switch Lite with me everywhere. I drag it along around the house, in the car, and any other place you can think of. But I don’t keep it in a case or in…
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Smoke app brings the Steam store to your Apple Watch

If you can’t bear to be away from Steam for a moment least you miss one of its famously great sales, then Smoke, a new app for the Apple Watch, has you covered. Smoke advertises that it “brings parts of Steam” to the Apple Watch. The hardware is obviously pretty…
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Steam’s top-selling VR games of 2019 include Beat Saber, Boneworks, and Superhot

Valve revealed Steam’s Best of 2019 lists, including the top-selling VR games of the year. The section is split into platinum, gold, silver and bronze subdivisions, along with a section purely for the best VR releases of 2019. The platinum category features the top VR sellers “as measured by gross revenue this year,” Steam said. It consists of Blade & Sorcery, Skryim VR, Arizona Sunshine…
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