Here we go folks, Best Buy’s Day 1 Black Friday Doorbuster deals are now live! Yesterday we featured the brand’s Black Friday sneak peak online ad as well as some of the early Doorbuster deals as part of Best Buy’s early access sale for Plus and Total ...
Apple finally included a telephoto lens in its iPhone 15 Pro Max last year, with the upgrade extended to the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. This is just one of the many examples of how the Cupertino firm adopts various standards much later than the competition, likely because it wants to offer the best configuration to customers. One other technology that the company is said to bring for the iPhone 18 that rivals like Samsung introduced years ago is variable aperture for the main camera, and according to one analyst, another supplier will provide these parts. Sunny […]
The use of TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process for the M4 series has made Apple’s latest chipsets more thermally efficient, but that does not mean that a capable cooling solution should be ignored from the rest of the hardware configuration. In fact, depending on how robust that solution is, we can actually get more performance from the M4, as demonstrated in the latest Premiere Pro 4K Export test, where the redesigned Mac mini is faster than Apple’s updated 14-inch MacBook Pro. However, one other hardware ends up taking the crown, and we will discuss why this is happening. The 24-inch M4 […]
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II drops in just a couple weeks, and Microsoft and Ninja Theory have dropped a new featurette focusing on the game’s psychosis mechanics. As before, Ninja Theory has put a lot of effort and research into depicting psychosis accurately, with a professor of neuroscience and somebody who actually suffers from psychosis attesting to that in the video. For those more interested in the technical side of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, the video also features some gorgeous new snippets of footage. We also get a few a number of scenes we’ve seen before, but at least in some […]
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II was one of the first games announced for the Xbox Series X/S all the way back in 2019, and thankfully, it’s been confirmed we’re finally going to get our hands on the game relatively soon. During today’s latest Xbox Developer Direct we got some fresh insight into what developer Ninja Theory is building and a more precise 2024 release date. The new Xbox Developer Direct video offers a few more snippets of footage, although the large majority of it is from the game's most recent trailer. Ultimately though, it's what the devs from Ninja Theory say during […]
During The Game Awards 2023 event, Microsoft and developer Ninja Theory debuted a beautiful new Hellblade 2 trailer. The brand-new trailer is a sight to see and shows off pieces of intense gameplay. In addition to showing off Xbox Series X gameplay, the trailer also features in-game cinematics of the upcoming sequel. You can check out the new 2.30-minute-long trailer below. "The sequel to the award-winning Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, sees Senua return in a brutal journey of survival through the myth and torment of Viking Iceland", the description of the game reads. "Intent on saving those who have fallen victim […]
Xbox Studios Head Matt Booty, now formally wearing the role of President of Game Content and Studios after the recent restructuring, was featured in Episode 32 of The Fourth Curtain's podcast. The executive revealed that Xbox organized an in-person meeting of all the studio heads last month, bringing people like Brian Fargo, Todd Howard, Tim Schafer, Feargus Urquhart, et cetera together in the same room. On that occasion, Booty stressed that Microsoft believes all their games matter, from the biggest to the smallest, and will strive to make creativity an inevitability rather than just a possibility at all the studios. […]
As part of its Q2 FY 2025 financial presentation, SEGA has announced the sale of Amplitude Studios, the Paris-based studio known as the developer of Endless Space, Endless Legend, Dungeon of the Endless, Endless Space 2, Humankind, and more recently, Endless Dungeon. SEGA explained this concludes its wave of restructuring the European business, which previously included the sale of Relic Entertainment and substantial layoffs. The Group recorded an extraordinary loss of approximately ¥5.9 billion ($38.7 million) in the second quarter for the fiscal year due to the sale of overseas development studio Amplitude Studios SAS through a management buyout. [...] […]
The Target 3-day early Black Friday sale is now live but we are also now onto Day 8 of its Black Friday Deals of the Day. There are now “thousands of deals” live over at Target alongside the now live Best Buy early Doorbuster sale, and the daily deals ...
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II drops in just a couple weeks, and Microsoft and Ninja Theory have dropped a new featurette focusing on the game’s psychosis mechanics. As before, Ninja Theory has put a lot of effort and research into depicting psychosis accurately, with a professor of neuroscience and somebody who actually suffers from psychosis attesting to that in the video. For those more interested in the technical side of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, the video also features some gorgeous new snippets of footage. We also get a few a number of scenes we’ve seen before, but at least in some […]
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II was one of the first games announced for the Xbox Series X/S all the way back in 2019, and thankfully, it’s been confirmed we’re finally going to get our hands on the game relatively soon. During today’s latest Xbox Developer Direct we got some fresh insight into what developer Ninja Theory is building and a more precise 2024 release date. The new Xbox Developer Direct video offers a few more snippets of footage, although the large majority of it is from the game's most recent trailer. Ultimately though, it's what the devs from Ninja Theory say during […]
During The Game Awards 2023 event, Microsoft and developer Ninja Theory debuted a beautiful new Hellblade 2 trailer. The brand-new trailer is a sight to see and shows off pieces of intense gameplay. In addition to showing off Xbox Series X gameplay, the trailer also features in-game cinematics of the upcoming sequel. You can check out the new 2.30-minute-long trailer below. "The sequel to the award-winning Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, sees Senua return in a brutal journey of survival through the myth and torment of Viking Iceland", the description of the game reads. "Intent on saving those who have fallen victim […]
Xbox Studios Head Matt Booty, now formally wearing the role of President of Game Content and Studios after the recent restructuring, was featured in Episode 32 of The Fourth Curtain's podcast. The executive revealed that Xbox organized an in-person meeting of all the studio heads last month, bringing people like Brian Fargo, Todd Howard, Tim Schafer, Feargus Urquhart, et cetera together in the same room. On that occasion, Booty stressed that Microsoft believes all their games matter, from the biggest to the smallest, and will strive to make creativity an inevitability rather than just a possibility at all the studios. […]