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The shutdown of Google Stadia is going to bring a few exclusive games down with it, but one exclusive is going to be able to escape the sinking ship. Wavetale, a “First on Stadia” title released in 2021, will make its way to PC and consoles in December. Wavetale was released to Google Stadia in November of last year and was largely well-received. The game, published by Thunderful Games, was…

Google’s affordable mid-range phone for 2023, the Pixel 7a, is shaping up to be a significant upgrade over every A-series Pixel before it, with better cameras, wireless charging, and more. When the Pixel 3a debuted, it made the premise of Google’s affordable devices abundantly clear — make the same flagship Pixel experience available on a more affordable device. At the outset, the…

Telegram and its users are looking into ways to make more money from the platform. One method users have tried is using third-party payment bots to sell paid individual posts on their channels. However, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says the company had to shut down paid posts on iOS due to a complaint from Apple. Durov said it “was great” that creators were receiving nearly the full sum of…

Google Messages is the vehicle that drives the RCS chat experience for millions of Android users around the world, but that experience still isn’t completely done. After bringing end-to-end encryption, Google Messages still needs to support E2EE to group chats over RCS, and it seems that’s starting to show up. Rewinding a bit, end-to-end encryption was first added to Google Messages’ RCS…