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ea has surprised no one with the addition of full screen ads that run
during gameplay in ufc 4. a reddit post went viral this weekend showing an ad
for the boys on amazon prime the boys
popping up before and after replays during an in-game match this is
particularly annoying because ea has apparently added the promos after the
game's launch so players who thought they had paid 60 bucks for the privilege
of not being advertised to in-game were proven to be fools ah
happens to me all the time ea has responded to the backlash by apologizing
for the ads removing them from the game and promising they won't do it again
sure but it does make you ask the question is ea wrong to try and recoup some of their
investment by selling ads in a game sony for example apparently makes more money
from dlc and microtransactions than anything else partially thanks to the 30
cut that they take from all purchases on the playstation platform maybe if that
cut was reduced developers like ea would have more income and they wouldn't feel
the need to put in stupid ads like this like like other developers might feel
that way ea would still do it speaking of people who
want to cut down a 30 cut epic games yep
they've now filed for a court order that would force apple to reinstate fortnite
onto the app store while the two companies await a judgment on epic's
lawsuit in case you've been living under a rock after epic broke the app store
guidelines by adding a direct payment option to fortnight apple removed the
game from the app store and later terminated epic's developer account but
a judge didn't make apple reinstate the game saying the current situation
doesn't actually harm epic and the whole thing is kind of their fault anyways
which it totally is to be fair well with his latest filing epic is making the
case that they are being harmed saying the number of daily active fortnite
players on iOS has declined by over 60 percent since the game's removal and
that iOS players make up a third of the total fortnight player base meanwhile
google has made a statement trying to differentiate epic's lawsuit against
them from the one against apple claiming they do allow multiple app stores and
even the side loading of apps we'll have to see what happens when the apple case
gets a hearing on september 28th hopefully dennis will still be able to
keep buying his favorite fortnite dances on this iphone and the hype for NVIDIA's
rtx 3000 series has reached a high now people are starting to ask wait a second
were we victims of marketing NVIDIA said that the rtx
3080 is twice as fast as the rtx 2080 but leaked benchmarks indicate the card
is only 168 faster than the 2080 super
now yeah yeah i know it's the super not the vanilla 2080 and the benchmarks are
compute oriented not gaming ones but listen there's still reason to be
cautious a source from an unnamed manufacturer reportedly told cortex that
AMD was prepping a 599 dollar card with
performance between the 3070 and 3080. but might change that to 549 to undercut
the rtx 3080 a similar strategy they employed with the rx 5000 series cards
and then you got all these leaks concerning a rtx 3070 ti or 3070 super
so all i'm saying is seems like there will be a bunch of developments in this
whole next-gen GPU launch saga so just maybe just
you know just so wait a bit you know just just see what happens is that too
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you want some quick bits now yeah yeah sure sure yeah yeah yeah i got i got you
i got it microsoft has announced they're releasing the direct storage API which
is the same framework used to develop the velocity architecture in the xbox
series x allowing direct access to storage for reduced load time and more
detailed game worlds between that and a recent leak pointing to a 599 price
point for the series x oof it looks more and more like the real pro
gamer move is to get on pc but hey hey hey i'm not judging you know there's so
many flavors of doritos and mountain dew it's like it's enticing i get it the
oculus quest or should i say facebook's oculus quest is being delisted from
retail stores no doubt in preparation for the announcement
launch of the standalone vr headset's successor will it even be called the
oculus quest 2 or just the facebook quest too since oculus has basically
been renamed to facebook reality Labs well tune in on september 16th for the
press conference and we'll all be disappointed together
china claims they've landed that mysterious reusable spacecraft the
country launched last week no idea what it looks like but we do kind of know
what the rocket that launched it looks like because a part of it fell to the
earth extremely close to a populated village as seen NVIDIA posted on weibo
and this isn't even the first time it's happened
well you know these made in china rockets they're cheap you know but
they get the job done what's a villager to you know we put a thing in the sky
you can now emulate the nintendo switch on Android but you have to buy these
weird sketchy controllers to do it the egg ns emulator claims it's made by
people in the us but it's pretty clear
it's not look if you want to check this out fine but also
don't and hey it's 2020 and the world is going
to hell so it's only appropriate to fight hordes of demons in doom by
playing it on a pregnancy test yep programmer phone touring posted a
different kind of test result on twitter if you're willing to make the modifications yourself playing on a 128
by 32 pixel monochrome display might be fun
just don't pee on it
and that's it for this one guys come back on wednesday for more tech news if
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