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all the way down after leaks revealed the design and
price of the lower power xbox series s and the series x microsoft decided to go
with the flow and make the reveal official phil spencer said
they're going to tell everybody next week he swears but he's got a kind of
suspicious face you know and very punchable not sure if we can trust them
anyways both consoles launch on november 10th with pre-orders opening on
september 22nd just three days before my birthday and xbox series s will cost us
just 299 dollars and physically it takes up less than half the volume of this
series x which will cost 499 dollars the bets are settled it's over
that's partly because the series s lacks a disk drive but it also has weaker
specs across the board a less powerful GPU a slightly lower clock CPU as well
as less vram and less storage but microsoft says it will still be capable
of delivering 1440p gameplay at 120 FPS
for 299. dang
dang but the deal actually just gets better ea's game subscription ea play
has just been plonked into xbox game pass for free while xbox all access
basically a hardware payment plan that comes with games pass and xbox live will
now allow users to upgrade to the new consoles
and as ours technical points out you might even save money going that route
instead of just buying the console and games passes separately outright really
the only bad part of today's xbox news is a leak showing a one terabyte
expansion SSD retailing for 220 dollars i mean
philly we trusted you google has rolled out
Android 11 to pixel phones i didn't notice what you didn't update
oh other phones have it too though oneplus xiaomi oppo and realme devices
can also update to Android 11 if they're paying attention unlike me although it's
just a stable beta version but that's still
that's better than just pixels right
take that apple i don't get it anyways Android 11 brings built-in screen
recording system level messaging bubbles revamped media controls built into the
notification shade group notifications and a few other privacy and security
tweaks google has normally revealed a new statue in mountain view for each
Android release but this time they just made an ar statue that you can see
through your phone you know keep your physical distance from those statues
it says apple would make a real statue but i don't know their announcement for their
event was also ai apple would do it i don't think they would something apple
might do though apparently is remove the ability for users to log into their epic
games accounts using the sign in with apple method i don't know what apple
thought this would accomplish like would this be the final straw that makes
epic go oh okay fine lawsuit's off
oh shoot sign in
it's the drop that makes the glass run over users shouldn't be affected as long
as they make sure their email and password are up to date so they can sign in the old-fashioned way this latest
petty move in the legal fight between the two companies comes after apple
counter-suit epic for damages suffered from the loss of fortnite revenue with
apple calling epic's actions theft period even if apple is legally correct
here it feels a bit weird to say that epic stole the money generated from
their game from apple and isn't this how this all started
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cool gonna start saying i'm a seven foot class dude
you're all so tiny down there ask me how the weather is
inside sources are claiming that microsoft is readying a new mid-range
surface device to launch this fall for around 500 us dollars that would be
pretty amazing if it didn't also have only 64 gigabytes of storage and four
gigabytes of RAM are you kidding me man it's 20 20 microsoft make a laptop with
four gigabits of RAM is like making a car that has legs instead of wheels and
tiny little short ways that aren't even seven foot class oh that's pointless
wait did they just invent the horse more rumors are pointing to an upgraded 4k
capable nintendo switch launching next year 2021 a bloomberg report covering
nintendo increasing switch production to meet demand also claims that the company
has told third party developers to prepare 4k ready versions of their games
yes can't wait to see mario's pores his
little greasy plum reports we've already proved he has nipples this is the next
frontier mario's blackheads
pubg mobile may have found a way to remain in india after being banned from
the country along with over 100 other chinese apps including tick tock the
game is actually produced by the south korean pub g corp which will now publish
the game itself in india instead of tencent uh 10 cents on a place
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