i can hear what you're thinking great another convenient roundup of recent
tech news just what i needed
epic games has officially gotten some backup in its war against apple 12 other
companies including spotify tile and match group have formed the coalition
for app fairness which will advocate for freedom of choice and fair competition
across the app ecosystem the group's specific demands mirror the ones made by
epic in its lawsuits calling for apple to end its anti-competitive policies and
lower the default 30 cut of app store revenue which i'm sure apple will do
eventually over their collective dead perfectly maintained california bodies
they're a beautiful company although apple did just make a concession to
facebook allowing event organizers to skip paying the 30 cut for three months
giving facebook until the end of the year to implement in-app payments for
events i don't know maybe tim apple has a heart after all a beautiful
sandblasted metal one he could afford with the 20 billion dollars he gets from
the app store revenue amazon has unveiled its own cloud gaming
service called luna complete with a custom controller taking fellow cloud
storage giants google and microsoft head on when it launches later this year luna
will be composed of gaming channels which you can individually subscribe to
that sounds like cable i thought we got rid of that
so far the only channel that's been announced is the basic luna plus for
5.99 a month but ubisoft's channel is in the works there's other ones coming too
apparently unlike stadia which runs off Linux servers luna will use Windows
servers with NVIDIA t4 gpus which are basically rtx 2070 supers meaning
developers have to do less work to get their games on the platform but you know
what's missing vague claims about negative latency that
would really sell this for me interestingly luna will be playable on
pc mac fire tv devices and iOS
skirting apple's cloud gaming service restrictions on the app store by
not being on the app store what's going on here luna will be a
progressive web app on iOS which i guess apple is totally fine with so we might
see google and microsoft follow suit with web apps for stadia and xcloud
instead of making individual app store apps to stream each title in their
library which is what apple wanted them to do but i'm pretty sure that was just
apple's idea of a hilarious prank NVIDIA launched the rtx 3090 on september 24th
and it went only slightly better than the rtx 3080 launch most likely because
there were way less people lining up around the digital block to purchase a
1500 graphics card but NVIDIA still went ahead and pre-apologized to fans you
pre-order we pre-apologize for having the card in limited supply due to the
constraints of physical reality we're sorry we just haven't figured out that
duplication spell yet reviews of the card are also out showing the 3090
getting 10 to 15 percent faster gaming performance than the 3080.
yeah uh turns out the 3090 isn't exactly the titan by another name that everyone
thought it was although it is still a decent card for professional creators
but will decent be good enough when AMD releases its flagship big navi cards
codenamed sienna
cichlid and navy flounder what did i just say were those words
ah horrible code names some leaks have led
fans to speculate team red's gpus could actually be faster than the rtx 3080 and
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quick amazon also announced a ton of smart
home stuff today including a new globular echo design a ring car cam that
will start recording as soon as you say alexa i'm being pulled over
to keep police accountable interesting and the always home cam an
autonomous self-docking drone that will patrol your house if an alarm is tripped
also alexa devices can now bark like a dog to scare off intruders just a wild
day over at amazon they're having some fun over there microsoft's one terabyte
storage expansion for the xbox series xns will cost
dollars now you might remember the series s itself only cost 2.99 which
means that the series s is basically made up of a one terabyte SSD with
eighty dollars of electronics slapped on but wait
the series s only comes with a 512 gig SSD enough for a single call of duty
warzone installation but
game pass someone on 4chan has leaked the source code of a number of old
versions of Windows including Windows xp and server 2003 along with a folder full
of bill gates conspiracy theory videos that's the more interesting one to me
there is some concern the various bits of code that do overlap with Windows 10
could be used for malware or to finally out bill gates as a reptilian why is he
so chill all the time cold-blooded gamer news time left 4 dead
2 has been jolted back to life one last time david's excited with the release of
the last stand a community made and valve approved update adding a new
campaign survival mode maps and various fixes and tweaks go challenge him in
game i guess are you playing this weekend
and it's free right uh the game's free this weekend so play
with you no that's too easy and more gamer news
rocket league is now free to play on the epic game store breaking a new record
for concurrent players and crashing servers hey here's a tip for new players
when someone says what a save they're not paying you a compliment and the
tribeca film festival will add video games to its official selections in 2021
with jeff keely hideo kojima sam lake and other industry veterans serving on
the festival's advisory board that's right games are art now tribeca said so
it's objective and this episode is objectively over come back on monday for
another convenient roundup of tech news it's when the apple epic hearing starts
so although it's gonna be real it's gonna be pretty good