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Turn your iPhone into a click wheel iPod Classic with ‘nice throwback’ app

A designer/developer has created an iPhone app that recreates the UI of a click wheel iPod Classic, right down to haptic feedback and click sounds … Elvin Hu blended it with a Cover Flow album view above the click wheel. He tweeted a short video of the app (below), which is still a work in progress, and told The Verge what inspired the project. Elvin Hu, a design student at Cooper Union…
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This iPhone app will make you nostalgic for the iPod click wheel

An iOS developer is building an iPhone app that will turn the smartphone into an iPod Classic with its nostalgic click wheel. Elvin Hu, a design student at Cooper Union college in New York City, has been working on the project since October, and shared an early look at the…
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Samsung’s PlayGalaxy Link is another way to beam PC games to your Galaxy phone

If you’re not quite ready to sign up for a full-fledged cloud gaming service like Google Stadia — and who could blame you? — there are plenty of ways to dip your toe in the streaming game waters for free or cheap. The latest is exclusive to Samsung Galaxy phones, and it’s called PlayGalaxy Link. Like the Steam Link app or Parsec — on which PlayGalaxy is based — you’ll install…
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You can play Google Stadia on almost any Android phone with root

Google Stadia launched last week, allowing you to stream AAA video games to your laptop, desktop, Chrome OS tablet, Chromecast Ultra, or Pixel phone. Of course, the Android power user community was none too pleased about Stadia’s seemingly arbitrary restriction preventing…
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Xbox Scarlett and PlayStation 5 launches will be all about service games

Google Stadia’s launch didn’t make sense. The cloud-gaming service debuted with nearly two dozen games, but they are nearly all premium-priced products that were previously available on other platforms. And few people seem excited to jump into Stadia to buy those games. But the problem with Stadia isn’t the existence of Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey or Mortal Kombat 11. The issue is the almost…
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Valve's Steam Controller is dead

Four years after Valve released its oddball Steam Controller, it’s not making any more. The controller is on sale today for $5 — that’s 90 percent off its list price of $49.99 — and a note in the Steam Store warns that there’s a limited…
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'Red Dead Redemption 2' comes to Steam on December 5th

Red Dead Redemption 2‘s PC launch drew a number of complaints, not the least of which was having to use yet another publisher-specific launcher to play it. If you haven’t already bought the game, though, you won’t have to deal with that hassle. Rockstar…
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Google Stadia members can hand out free three-month passes

It’s coming roughly a week after launch, but you now have a way to try Google Stadia without paying… provided you have the right connections. Google is rolling out its promised (but delayed) Buddy Passes to Stadia Founder’s Edition buyers, giving them free access to Stadia Pro for three months. If you’re a Stadia subscriber, you’ll see an envelope icon in the…
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