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Company of Heroes iPhone app now available

September 10, 2020
As expected, the Company of Heroes iPhone app is now available. It follows the release of the iPad version earlier this year. The WWII strategy game runs on the iPhone 6S and later … The app costs $13.99, with all subsequent downloadable content included. These include extra missions and maps. As always with Feral games, the iPhone app is free if you already own the iPad one. A separate…
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Huawei’s HarmonyOS is coming to smartphones

September 10, 2020
Huawei has announced the second version of its HarmonyOS operating system and detailed plans to bring it to a wider range of devices, including smartphones. Consumer business CEO Richard Yu made the announcement today at Huawei’s developer conference in Shenzhen…
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Xbox Game Pass for PC will soon double in price

September 10, 2020
All good things must come to an end. Microsoft has confirmed that the PC version of Game Pass will soon cost $9.99 per month, rather than $4.99 per month. We knew this price hike was coming: Game Pass for PC is technically in beta at the moment, and the Xbox website has long…
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Huawei’s homegrown Android rival is coming to phones

September 10, 2020
This morning, at Huawei’s developer conference, CEO Richard Yu announced that we’ll see the first phones running HarmonyOS in 2021. Android Authority quotes Yu, saying that the developer beta of HarmonyOS 2.0 will be available today, although the mobile-compatible beta version won’t arrive until December.  Huawei has been working on a home-grown operating system since at least 2012, when…
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Huawei to launch its Harmony OS Android rival on smartphones in 2021

September 10, 2020
(Reuters) — Huawei plans to introduce its Harmony operating system, seen as the company’s best bet to replace Google’s Android mobile operating system, on smartphones next year, the head of its consumer business group said on Thursday. Richard Yu made the comments at the company’s annual developers conference in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan. He also said that the company had a 2.0…
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Xbox Game Pass for PC is doubling its price next week

September 10, 2020
Alongside an influx of next-gen console news, Microsoft also confirmed today that it will raise its pricing for Xbox Game Pass for PC from $4.99 per month to $9.99 a month starting on September 17th. Existing members on the introductory price will still pay the same rate…
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Twitch brings custom esports competitions to streamers in closed beta

September 10, 2020
Twitch and esports go together like a dusting of salt on top of a chocolate chip cookie: the sweetness of victory etc., tempered by the saltiness of defeat. Today, Twitch launches Versus — a suite of competitive tools that will let creators on the site organize and manage their own tournaments — which promises to bring those agonies and ecstasies to any streamer who feels like pubstomping…
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