Epic's just BUYING studios now?
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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bing bong wiggle wiggle dum dum rob schlob dobby and dingleheim
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that's what the script says so i have to read it
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just when you thought the war between steam and the epic game store was maybe
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starting to cool down one of the biggest offensives yet has been launched epic
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has acquired psyonix the developer of popular esports game rocket league even
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worse epic left gamers to assume the worst about rocket league's fate on
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steam initially saying that the game would come to the epic game store in late 2019
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and would continue to be supported on steam in the meantime but does that mean
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eventually support will stop for steam users
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psyonix themselves said players on steam can look forward to continued support
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while epic does give developers greater revenue share and their resources will
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no doubt support rocket league status as an esport it's these kind of
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uncertainties that make the whole epic versus steam fight so annoying like will
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steam users get all future updates will riley be forced to play using a
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controller instead of a mouse and keyboard never
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no one thing that is certain is respawns
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tolerance for cheaters it's zero after
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promising to crack down on cheating the apex legends developer announced that
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they've blocked 770 000 players 300 000 new accounts and
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4 000 cheat sellers they've also made it
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easier to report cheats in game added new automatic cheat detecting features
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and they're working with cheating experts to enact a full-scale anti-cheat
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defense yeah you better freaking watch out yet cheaters
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says this is only the beginning of their anti-cheater campaign and they can't
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share more details now as that would give a heads up to the cheaters riley it
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seems like they already gave a bunch of details about it and what's TechLinked
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without a story about facebook being ridiculous we've already heard that
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facebook was developing a digital currency for use within whatsapp but now
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reports are emerging about a cryptocurrency meant for facebook itself
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the company is apparently trying to raise a billion dollars from financial
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institutions to help it develop the currency which would be a stable coin
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whose value is tethered to other conventional currencies like the dollar
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dealing with people's money would raise even more questions about personal
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privacy but at least facebook is asking the federal government for help with
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that in exchange for ending a federal probe into its privacy problems the
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company told the ftc it would submit to greater oversight of its data collection
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forward slash Linus or at the link in the video description
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the pixel 3a is rumored to be revealed on may 7th but a best buy in ohio
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doesn't respect the laws of men no nature the store put some pixel 3as on
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the shelf for anyone including the folks at Android police to see
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andrew police are here we got you it's ridiculous
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there have been a plethora of leaks about these devices already but we'll
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wait until next week to get the info straight from the source
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oh google i o that's some good source the overwatch league has been pretty
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successful with its city-based team system so activision blizzard is going
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to try the same thing with call of duty atlanta dallas new york paris and
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toronto will get their own teams each presumably receiving a dutiful call to
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represent their city and or sizable sums of money researchers at microsoft have
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revealed torque a controller prototype for virtual reality that would allow
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users to feel virtual objects by providing haptic feedback through a
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specially developed finger module it's apparently especially good at
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simulating squishy balls so if you've been stressed at work you can just go on
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home pop on the vr headset and and squeeze those anxieties away in virtual
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for i can't wait for vr bounty castle
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youtube is planning on taking its original content out from behind the
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youtube premium paywall and making it available finally to good old regular
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plebs like me i'm so cheap upcoming
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original shows will be ad supported and existing premium content will also be
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available for a limited time i guess youtube figured
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they're not netflix they figured it out netflix is netflix are they are they
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hulu they might be hulu
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and there's a potential path to peace in the never ending battle between pirated
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retro game emulators and game producers and stream which just got funded on
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kickstarter is a streaming service that would grant access to over 2 000 classic
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titles from the zx spectrum amiga commodore 64 sega genesis and the arcade
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the company's owners are sourcing licenses for the games and if they're
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successful andstream could serve to benefit game rights holders and retro
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enthusiasts alike it's just that would be win win there's no way nintendo's
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going to join
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there's also no way we're going to continue this episode because
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it's over thanks for watching everybody more tech
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