Sony has announced PlayStation Stars, a new customer loyalty programme which will launch later this year. Access is open to all PlayStation owners, with additional benefits for PlayStation Plus subscribers. If you’re familiar with the Xbox’s Microsoft Rewards scheme – well, this is a rough equivalent, with a couple of intriguing differences. Read more /format/jpg/quality/80/Untitled-1_B2duD01.jpg”…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Rumbleverse – the free-to-play “brawler royale” from developer Iron Galaxy Studios – has, following a bit of a delay, been given a new release date, and is launching for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC (via the Epic Games Store) on 18th August. Iron Galaxy Studios, which is perhaps best known as the developer behind the 2013…
Regrettably, Tony Hawk has announced a partnership with blockchain/metaverse/virtual world game The Sandbox. This will add skating-based areas, and pixelly versions of Tony Hawk you can buy as NFTs. Confused? Here’s a visualisation of how it’ll look: “What’s up guys it’s Tony Hawk, and we are building the biggest skate park in the metaverse,” the…
Samsung Electronics revealed today it started sampling the industry’s first 16-gigabit Graphics Double Data Rate 6 DRAM with 24 Gbps processing speeds. It is built on the 10 nm EUV process technology and is expected to boost performance of laptop and console GPUs. The new DRAM chip will offer universal compatibility so it can have…
Netflix has been losing customers lately, and one of the measures to counter the trend it to offer them to come back with an even cheaper, ad-supported tier. Now we know this is happening, as the streaming platform revealed Microsoft will be its “global advertising technology and sales partner.” In a press release, Greg Peters,…
Apple is planning a range of transformative upgrades for the iPad lineup in the coming years, including a new 14.1-inch model and an 11-inch model with an OLED display, as well as the introduction of under-screen camera technology and foldable displays, according to reliable display analyst Ross Young. The comments, made on the latest episode…
As promised, Twitter today sued Elon Musk in an attempt to force Musk to go through with the $44 billion purchase of Twitter, reports Reuters. Twitter in the lawsuit accuses Musk of trashing the company, disrupting its operations, and destroying stockholder value. Having mounted a public spectacle to put Twitter in play, and having proposed…
Since former Apple design chief Jony Ive left Apple in 2019, he has continued to work for the company as a consultant through his LoveFrom design firm, but the partnership between Apple and Ive is now over, according to The New York Times. Apple and Ive have agreed to stop working together, ending a more…
After weeks of teases, Nothing has officially announced its Phone 1 smartphone. It’s the second major product release by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei’s company, following last year’s Ear 1 true wirless earbuds, and the device has a modest starting price of £399 ($475). The UK-based company raised $144 million in funding to develop the handset,…