Microsoft announced it has made some significant backend improvements to the Windows 10 Store that technically allow for offline play — but the number of hoops you’ll need to jump through to enable this feature remains significant. Offline play is one aspect*of the Windows Store that’s lagged well behind competitors like Steam or even services like Origin, so ...
Few games in recent memory have been as hyped up as No Man’s Sky, which captured the imagination of gamers with a flashy 2014 E3 teaser trailer. When the game finally came out a few months ago, the response from players was negative. It only got worse as the previously very chatty Hello Games founder Sean Murray went dark. Then on Friday, Hello Games tweeted, “No Man’s Sky was a mistake.” ...
Apple’s path from licensing standard ARM cores to building its own CPU design was well-documented, starting with the company’s decision to purchase PA Semi in April 2008. Its GPU cores, in contrast, have been broadly assumed to be licensed from Imagination Technologies. According to a new report, however, Apple has been building its own GPU cores for years — it’s just that no one noticed. ...
Ever since news of the Sony PlayStation 4 Pro leaked, gamers have wanted to hear more about what the system could do and what kind of benefits it would offer over and above the standard PlayStation 4. Sony has shared some of those details and been shy on others. But with the launch fast approaching (and the need to build hype around the system), the chief architect of the PS4 and PS4 Pro, ...
Console reveals are tricky to manage. On the one hand, major corporations want to build support for features and capabilities to excite customers and developers. On the other, tipping your hand too early can give your competitors a leg up on beating you. Nintendo is particularly vulnerable in this regard — while the company is trying to build support for fundamentally new approaches ...
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