Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER has been partially leaked with its packaging design giving us a first look at the upcoming GPU. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Graphics Card Packaging Leaks Out: A GPU That's Both A "Ti" & A "SUPER" The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 "SUPER" family is no mystery but one particular SKU was definitely the highlight due to its weird naming scheme. This card is the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER which adopts both, the "SUPER" and the "Ti" branding. Leakers themselves were against NVIDIA's decision to use such a naming scheme but based on […]
Baldur's Gate 3 has already received many updates and improvements since its early August launch, thanks to four major patches and several smaller hotfixes. The community is always eager to spot what may be coming next. Over the weekend, Reddit user W0lferino93 shared an image of a new achievement that appeared on GOG. Titled Foehammer, it would be rewarded for completing the game in Honor Mode, except there currently is no such a mode. Larian fans are certainly familiar with the mode. In Divinity: Original Sin 2, it's a modifier that can be applied to any difficulty. Akin to 'Iron […]
Apple unveiled three new M3 Macs during its October 30 ‘Crazy Fast’ event, but it was not like the company decided to release these models at the 11th hour. According to the latest evidence, the technology giant has planned for months to get the new hardware onto shelves, as they have been sitting in a warehouse since July of this year. Apple released two new versions of Rosetta for macOS 13.5, a build that has been out since July, indicating that the M3 Macs were ready for months Earlier, it was reported that Apple was forced to launch the new […]
Epic and Google are finally seeing each other in court this week, and things have actually taken a rather interesting turn. For starters, Gary Bornstein, who is representing Epic Games in this case, claims that the search engine giant has destroyed evidence, which is a bold claim, to say the least. Google's fight with Epic Games continues as more accusations are thrown at the search engine giant Bornstein made the following statement, “All we know is whatever is in the destroyed chats, as bad as the documents are, is worse. Or at least it was worse, before they were destroyed." […]
Nintendo Switch has reached 132.46 million units to date, as Nintendo revealed today during its half-year financial report. Net sales during the reported timeframe are the largest ever since the debut of the handheld console, marking a 21.2% increase on a year-over-year basis. That's due to a combination of factors, including a rise in income from mobile games and the highly successful The Super Mario Bros. Movie, not to mention a depreciation of Japan's yen. Mobile and IP-related income jumped by 133.3% compared to last year, while the video game platform business grew by 16.7%. On that note, hardware sales […]
Blizzard Entertainment is now part of the larger Xbox family following Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, but what does that mean for the future? This past weekend saw the first in-person BlizzCon in years, but the show was still oriented around a direction put in place by previous Acti-Blizz boss Bobby Kotick – one very much focused on exploiting dependable moneymakers like World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Diablo. While those franchises will likely remain Blizzard’s bread and butter in the near term, some changes may be on the way. In a new interview with The Verge, Blizzard president […]
After vanquishing for good a supposed "Tesla Killer," Elon Musk is taking a well-deserved victory lap of sorts today as Lucid Group has finally yielded to the inevitable. That must have been a bitter pill to swallow 😂 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 6, 2023 To wit, Lucid Group announced today that it was adopting Tesla's North American Charging Standard (NACS) for its EVs, effective from 2025 onwards. To this, Elon Musk wrote on X: "That must have been a bitter pill to swallow." Bear in mind that Lucid Group's CEO, Peter Rawlinson, is widely credited with designing Tesla's Model […]
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER has been partially leaked with its packaging design giving us a first look at the upcoming GPU. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Graphics Card Packaging Leaks Out: A GPU That's Both A "Ti" & A "SUPER" The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 "SUPER" family is no mystery but one particular SKU was definitely the highlight due to its weird naming scheme. This card is the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER which adopts both, the "SUPER" and the "Ti" branding. Leakers themselves were against NVIDIA's decision to use such a naming scheme but based on […]
Baldur's Gate 3 has already received many updates and improvements since its early August launch, thanks to four major patches and several smaller hotfixes. The community is always eager to spot what may be coming next. Over the weekend, Reddit user W0lferino93 shared an image of a new achievement that appeared on GOG. Titled Foehammer, it would be rewarded for completing the game in Honor Mode, except there currently is no such a mode. Larian fans are certainly familiar with the mode. In Divinity: Original Sin 2, it's a modifier that can be applied to any difficulty. Akin to 'Iron […]
Apple unveiled three new M3 Macs during its October 30 ‘Crazy Fast’ event, but it was not like the company decided to release these models at the 11th hour. According to the latest evidence, the technology giant has planned for months to get the new hardware onto shelves, as they have been sitting in a warehouse since July of this year. Apple released two new versions of Rosetta for macOS 13.5, a build that has been out since July, indicating that the M3 Macs were ready for months Earlier, it was reported that Apple was forced to launch the new […]
Epic and Google are finally seeing each other in court this week, and things have actually taken a rather interesting turn. For starters, Gary Bornstein, who is representing Epic Games in this case, claims that the search engine giant has destroyed evidence, which is a bold claim, to say the least. Google's fight with Epic Games continues as more accusations are thrown at the search engine giant Bornstein made the following statement, “All we know is whatever is in the destroyed chats, as bad as the documents are, is worse. Or at least it was worse, before they were destroyed." […]
Nintendo Switch has reached 132.46 million units to date, as Nintendo revealed today during its half-year financial report. Net sales during the reported timeframe are the largest ever since the debut of the handheld console, marking a 21.2% increase on a year-over-year basis. That's due to a combination of factors, including a rise in income from mobile games and the highly successful The Super Mario Bros. Movie, not to mention a depreciation of Japan's yen. Mobile and IP-related income jumped by 133.3% compared to last year, while the video game platform business grew by 16.7%. On that note, hardware sales […]
Blizzard Entertainment is now part of the larger Xbox family following Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, but what does that mean for the future? This past weekend saw the first in-person BlizzCon in years, but the show was still oriented around a direction put in place by previous Acti-Blizz boss Bobby Kotick – one very much focused on exploiting dependable moneymakers like World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Diablo. While those franchises will likely remain Blizzard’s bread and butter in the near term, some changes may be on the way. In a new interview with The Verge, Blizzard president […]
After vanquishing for good a supposed "Tesla Killer," Elon Musk is taking a well-deserved victory lap of sorts today as Lucid Group has finally yielded to the inevitable. That must have been a bitter pill to swallow 😂 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 6, 2023 To wit, Lucid Group announced today that it was adopting Tesla's North American Charging Standard (NACS) for its EVs, effective from 2025 onwards. To this, Elon Musk wrote on X: "That must have been a bitter pill to swallow." Bear in mind that Lucid Group's CEO, Peter Rawlinson, is widely credited with designing Tesla's Model […]