Sony has announced that it’ll be acquiring Insomniac Games, the game development studio behind the Ratchet & Clank series and, most recently, Marvel’s Spider-Man for the PS4.
The news isn’t totally surprising: Insomniac has long had a close relationship with Sony, developing PlayStation-exclusive titles like Spyro the Dragon, Resistance, and the aforementioned Ratchet & Clank and…
Two Halo characters are joining ‘Gears 5’
August 19, 2019
Thirteen years into their shared history, you would think Halo and Gears of War would have already crossed over before today. After all, following Microsoft’s purchase of the Gears franchise in 2014, the two properties are the company’s biggest and most important…
Announced at I/O 2019 amid a slew of other privacy commitments, Google Nest is starting the Nest to Google Account migration. An update to the Nest for Android and iOS clients today let you transition, with security and seamless integrations touted as advantages.
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Sony Interactive took to Twitter on Monday afternoon, announcing that it had acquired Insomniac Games, the studio behind last year’s PS4 smash-hit Spider-Man.
Insomniac has been in business for more than two decades and has collaborated with Sony from its start, releasing Spyro in 1998 and following up with the likes of Ratchet & Clank and Sunset Overdrive. “Our studio vision is…
Just before Gamescom’s opening ceremony got underway, Google revealed a bunch more games that are coming to its Stadia streaming platform. One of the bigger titles is CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077. Google didn’t say exactly when the game would be…
Hackers make jailbreaking iPhones a thing again
August 19, 2019
In the iPhone’s early days, hackers would “jailbreak” the iPhone in order to install third-party apps that weren’t available through the App Store. It’s been a while since anyone seriously needed to jailbreak their iPhone, as there are plenty of…
Ahead of the next Stadia Connect livestream where Google will announce more games, Nvidia revealed that its competing GeForce Now streaming service will be coming to Android. Like Stadia, it will be “available later this year.”
GeForce Now is Nvidia’s take on cloud gaming with the company leveraging its experience in GPUs — Google is using custom chips from AMD. Offering over 1,000…
A hacker has released the first public jailbreak for modern iPhones in several years, according to a new report from . The report details that with the release of iOS 12.4, Apple accidentally unpatched a vulnerability that it had originally fixed in iOS 12.3, opening the…
Amazon reveals Xiaomi Mi A3 Indian price ahead of launch
August 19, 2019
Xiaomi is set to launch the Mi A3 in India on August 21, which is also when the official pricing will be announced. However, Xiaomi’s launch partner Amazon went ahead and revealed the price of the phone two days earlier.
Mi A3 pricing and variants
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The Google Play Store is the biggest, and safest, way for users to get apps for Android devices. For that reason alone, developers are keen to get their apps in the store, but Google first has to vet those applications in a review process. In the past week, Google has quietly increased the amount of time it takes for a new Android app to go through the Play Store approval…
