GamingNews

How Nexon is expanding its PC online games to mobile

August 19, 2020
Nexon is a lucky online-only video game company with five major franchises that have generated billions of dollars in revenues over the years. That’s the payback from being the first company to launch a free-to-play online game — the Kingdom of the Wilds, released on the PC in 1996. And by the end of this year, all five of those major franchises will be available on mobile devices, Nexon CEO…
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MobileNews

Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra review: big phone, small updates

August 18, 2020
Samsung has settled into a new routine for its Galaxy Note line of smartphones: take some of the major new features from the flagship Galaxy S updates from earlier in the year, improve on them slightly, and add a stylus. Instead of being the first with new technology, the Note has become the phone that refines it. If there is something new for Samsung’s routine, it’s this new “Ultra”…
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MobileNews

Bluetooth SIG plans COVID-19 exposure-tracing support for wearables

August 18, 2020
Though Apple and Google codeveloped a fairly sophisticated COVID-19 exposure-tracing system based on Bluetooth signals shared by Android phones and iPhones, the organization behind the Bluetooth standard believes there’s more to be done, specifically for wearables. Today, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced that it’s working with over 130 member companies to extend the…
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GamingNews

Apple fires back at Epic: ‘We won’t make an exception’

August 18, 2020
Apple has responded to Epic Games’ latest salvo in the ongoing dispute between the two companies. Epic had said that Apple is threatening to revoke its access to iOS and Mac developer tools by removing it from the Apple Developer Program unless it cuts a rule-violating payment processing option that it snuck into Fortnite. “We very much want to keep the company as part of the Apple Developer…
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