Apple has finally released the iTunes app on the Microsoft Store, formerly the Windows Store app store. Microsoft, at its Build conference held last year, had announced plans to add iTunes to the Microsoft Store. While some Windows users were highly anticipating the debut of iTunes, Apple in December 2017 said that iTunes will not be available in the Microsoft Store that year. The iTunes app on the Microsoft Store is similar to the regular iTunes, but now installation updates will be handled through the Microsoft Store updater rather than through Apple. Notably, the app will only run on Windows 10 PCs with either x86 or x64 architectures. The arrival of iTunes also ensures the software’s…
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Popular battle royale shooter Fortnite will be launched in China by Tencent. Users in the country can download the Fortnite client and sign up with their QQ account with an account transfer process in place for those who already have played the international version of the game and want to carry over their progress to the Chinese version of Fortnite. According to Chinese site DoNews (via Touch Arcade), it’s unclear if this would include the mobile version as well, though it would make sense if this was the case. Speaking of which, a Fortnite mobile companion app for China will also be made available with live…
Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and Team Fortress 2 developer and Steam owner Valve has acquired independent game studio Campo Santo. Consisting of veteran talent from Telltale Games, Campo Santo’s debut effort, Firewatch, released to near perfect reviews when it hit in 2016. The studio is hard at work on its second game, In the Valley of Gods that slated for a 2019 release window as well as bringing Firewatch to the Nintendo Switch. It seems that both projects will continue as planned with the team taking to its blog to break the news. “The twelve of us at Campo Santo have agreed to join Valve, where we…
Shraddha Kapoor sent the internet into a meltdown by posting a photo of herself admiring a yellow lehenga, which she captioned: “Getting ready for the biggest haldi ceremony of the year.” The 31-year-old actress did not tag anyone, which added to the confusion. Some Facebook users hoped to get an answer from the Aashiqui 2 actress while some have assumed that she preparing for her colleague Sonam Kapoor’s haldi ceremony. Reports of Sonam Kapoor getting married to her longtime boyfriend Anand Ahuja have been circulating on the Internet for quite some time now – and there are many versions of the Kapoor-Ahuja wedding. Early reports stated that Sonam Kapoor…
New Delhi [India], Apr 24 (ANI): The latest fad, doing the rounds on the internet, is snake massage and people are not taking up to this slithery, slippery affair. A verified account posted a rather disturbing video of a woman indulging in the said massage, where the compressions made by slithering snakes, relaxes her muscles. However, it is not sitting well with the Twittereople. The consensus so far is – No! A big, huge no! Here are some of the reactions: A user wrote, “I’ll pass… Thank u very much”.Another user shared a crying meme along with the caption, “…
If you still use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, then be aware that there’s reportedly a major hole in the browser which could be an entry point for malware. Chinese antivirus firm Qihoo 360 found the zero-day exploit which as yet remains unpatched, and is apparently being targeted by a group of hackers at a global level, as reported by ZDNet. This group is apparently leveraging the exploit using malicious Office documents. When said document is opened, it fires up a web page in the background of Internet Explorer, which subsequently facilitates the transmission of malware from a remote server. The host PC…
The best place to get fast internet in Australia might actually be Tasmania, with results from thousands of home broadband tests revealing the island state has the speediest connections. Hobart residents had the fastest internet of all capital cities with an average download speed of 26.3Mbps, according to 10,300 national speed tests powered by Ookla through comparison website Finder. Sydney was the second fastest capital city in the data with a 24.2Mbps average, while Melbourne and Brisbane recorded 23.4Mbps and 23.1Mbps respectively. Adelaide’s average speed was 21.4Mbps and Perth had the worst result at 19.1Mbps. Location is one factor that affects…
Beginning today, Synthesio, the leading global Social Media Intelligence and Social Listening Platform, will be showcasing its updated offerings and growth at the 2018 Social Media Week conference in New York. Synthesio’s industry-leading social data will be on display in multiple locations at the event, including three Synthesio Beam screens at the Connection Cafe. Synthesio Beam is a real-time social media command center that visualizes social KPIs in a multi-screen display suitable for sharing. Beam’s highly configurable interface leverages all of Synthesio’s data enrichment filters to surface KPIs vital to a brand. Beam provides a rolling display of every mention that is pulled into…
The game industry is big, but you probably knew that already. If you have ever sat through the credits of a modern triple-A game, you will know just how much work goes into these projects, just how many people are involved – pages and pages of seemingly endless names scroll by as each experience comes to a close. Publishers such as Ubisoft and EA even use multiple studios to work on different aspects of games, perhaps getting a racing game studio in to tweak vehicle handling in an open world game, or getting FPS experts to fine tune the shooting.…
Microsoft is being sued by Infernal Technologies and Terminal Reality for the “egregious and wilful” patent infringement of the Infernal Engine. GamesIndustry.biz reports that the company is being accused of infringement of two patents (Nos. 6,362,822 and 7,061,488) pertaining to graphical lighting and shadowing methods. Terminal Reality licensed the Infernal Engine to a number of studios, including Microsoft. The filing states that game engines used in a number of Microsoft’s games, including Gears of War 4, Halo 5, and Sea of Thieves demonstrate this, and that “Microsoft’s knowing infringement […] has been egregious and willful.” According to the filing, Terminal Reality began working with…