now i know the tech news can be scary but courage
is not the absence of fear blah blah
take my hand and we'll be scared together
microsoft just became a developer of playstation games
the company is buying zenimax media the parent company of bethesda
arcane studios and id software for 7.5
billion dollars in cash this means that
fallout the elder scrolls dishonored quake doom and more
are all going to become microsoft properties even more interestingly it
means microsoft now owns the developers behind a pair of
playstation 5 exclusives death loop and ghostwire tokyo
strangely this isn't even that out of character for microsoft as of late the
company just doesn't seem to give a sh about whether
gamers use their products on xbox or their products somewhere else i just
hope there won't be some software lock in skyrim that will
prevent us from running that wheel of cheese benchmark i don't know
what that is tick tock and wechat have both gotten
stays of execution from the us government they were supposed to have
both been removed from the google play store and apple app store on sunday but at the last
second walmart of all people entered the deal
between tick tock and oracle making it by president
trump's decree american enough i guess as for wechat
they got a ruling from a federal judge in the district of california
keeping them on life support until at least next sunday
until they can get this all sorted out you know the weirdest thing about all of
this is that bike dance is still gonna own what 80 percent of tick tock so like
that's american enough maybe it's just too big
to fail it's it's all the rage all the kids are yeah you just got to sing you know dude
it's popular man even though bots were likely at least partially responsible
for the playstation 5 pre-order fiasco sony has actually come out with a mia
culpa noting that the whole thing could have been a lot smoother
that's putting it mildly similarly to NVIDIA and their short supply of rtx
3080s sony is promising that more consoles
will be available very soon if only we had an exact date
to specify for you we don't the company also promised that
more would be available through the end of the year so if you
were hoping to have one under your christmas tree don't give up or maybe give up
because amazon has already told folks who have pre-ordered
that they may not get their console on release day which is scheduled for
november the 12th i mean i suppose you could always go
fight for one in person on black friday but given how high demand is you might
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between epic games and apple rages on as epic is none too happy about apple claiming that
the lawsuit was just a tactic to get people more interested in fortnite
on iOS and apple claims that people just well they ain't that into fortnite
anymore so epic has countered by saying that the
number of fortnite players has actually gone up by nearly 40 percent between
october and july so somebody isn't telling the truth in
court you know i've never seen that before in the bible here's some good news if
you're looking forward to cyberpunk 2077 but also missed out on the rtx 3080. it
turns out the minimum and recommended system requirements have
just dropped and they dropped before they even
dropped they're they're not super demanding
all they're asking for is an AMD fx 8310
and a gtx 780 while recommending a ryzen
3 3200 and a gtx 1060. so you won't need a
computer with the power of the matrix for a virtual dose of keanu isn't that
wonderful sad news out of germany as it appears
that a patient at dusseldorf um actually it's dusseldorf university
hospital has died as a result of a ransomware attack
wow really earlier this month network problems caused by the attack forced workers to
transfer the patient to a more distant hospital although the
hackers apparently did not mean to target the hospital and reportedly
provided the key for free after they realized what happened they could still be hit with negligent
homicide charges yeah for real that's great there's also
speculation that this is the first time that ransomware has directly caused a
death wow yeah so there you there you go hackers
you know the real world has real consequences another Windows 10 update is on the
horizon as next month we should be getting the 20 h2 update the most visible change
will probably be the new start menu which should look a little less busy and the new
chromium-based version of the edge browser is going to be pre-installed
you'll also see more options in the settings app as microsoft continues to
phase out the infinitely superior control panel which has been around since Windows 1.0
i personally will be very sad to see it ride off into the sunset
and finally another electronics mainstay is being put out to pasture
as nintendo has announced it is no longer manufacturing the 3ds
no it's obviously taken a backseat to the switch but the 3ds was a very
successful console in its own right selling over 75
million units over 9 years however the good news is
that you'll still be able to buy 3ds games through the eshop and play online for a long time to come
we hope so don't sweat too much if you don't feel like paying a
supply shortage premium for the nintendo switch
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