SamMobile reported on the availability of the update, and also the fact that it is available to those using Android 8 Oreo, as well as the beta build for Android 9. That said, it doesn’t look like users of the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is getting their Christmas present from the Korean tech giant though. For those of you who are using the Samsung Galaxy S9 or S9+, now would be a good time to check if you have an update waiting....

The deal will see US$3.6 billion (~RM15 billion) changing hands. But it’s a strange one, as far as acquisitions go. This is because despite SIE buying Bungie, the former says that the latter will still be able to self-publish and choose which platform their games go. This is in addition to being able to operate independently. For Sony’s end of the deal, the company is getting Bungie’s expertise on live service....

As part of that legal battle, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney testified that Sony Interactive Entertainment was the only company that charges for crossplay. And the legal document that accompany the testimony sheds light on what that compensation is like. The basic idea is to prevent Fortnite players on PlayStation spending money elsewhere, like iOS for instance. There’s also quite the specific cutoff point for when that compensation comes in....

The patent was filed at the end of June 2019 with the Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial (INPI) of Brazil. It is still unclear if this cartridge is indeed for an upcoming handheld device, or for something else entirely. A similar episode occurred last year, with Sony being granted a patent for a cartridge. It was widely believed to be for a new handheld. Shortly after, the company announced a toy that looks exactly like what the document describes....

Despite that, Jim Ryan, the President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment has acknowledged that the demand for PS5 is still much higher than what the company is able to supply. He has also noted to Reuters that the company is already producing more units at a much faster rate than before but chip shortage continues to be a challenge for Sony. Ryan also admitted that it is going to take some time before Sony is able to match the demand from gamers....

Besides Dolby Atmos, the HT-A5000 is also equipped to handle DTS:X, a Vertical Surround Engine, and S-Force PRO Front Surround, naturally. To give a sense of how the Vertical Surround Engine works, the technology works by having the soundbar’s front speakers and up-firing speakers working in tandem to produce a “vertical” audio, enabling sound to bounce off a ceiling and thus giving a space the sense of a multi-dimensional sound system....

Things remain largely the same for the fifth PS5 per-order batch as it did previously. Though the messaging is quite a bit clearer this time around. To put it simply, Sony Malaysia is doing its PS5 pre-order via its official Lazada store only. All other rules and conditions remain unchanged. Each customer can only buy one PS5, and each console and accessories are on a first come, first served basis....

The HT-G700 includes Immersive Audio Enhancement with up to 7.1.2 channel surround sound. It features three front speakers which enables sound placements to a wider area that can envelop listeners in all directions, thanks to Sony’s signal processing technology. Additionally, the soundbar offers a dedicated center speaker so that audio such as vocals can be heard clearly. On top of that, it comes with a wireless sub-woofer that delivers a deeper and richer bass sound as well....

For starters, the Xperia 10 III is fitted with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 690 5G SoC, which is an upgrade over the Snapdragon 665 used by its predecessor. With the new SoC, this also means that the Xperia 10 III is the first mid-range smartphone in the lineup to support 5G. Moving on, the Xperia 10 III also has more RAM at 6GB that is, once again, a bump up from the original 4GB RAM in the Xperia 10 II....

The arrival of this update is a long time coming, as users have been requesting Spotify to remove this limit for years – since 2014, according to the streaming service themselves. Prior to this, users who have reached the 10,000 song limit will be greeted by a snarky message from the service notifying them that their Library is full. The only way to add more to their collection is by removing existing ones in order to make room....

It’s difficult to predict exactly how much Rise of Skywalker will make by the end of its run. But here’s what we do know. One, there’s still another weekend before kids head back to school and adults head back to work. Two, China gives less and less of a damn about this franchise as the years go by (the film has only made $US 12 million in China, which is 10 times less than what TFA made there....

EA has put the trailer up on its YouTube channel specifically for Star Wars games. The trailer is a story-centric, though it doesn’t actually reveal much on that aspect. According to the trailer description, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor takes place five years after the events of Fallen Order. It does show a gruffer Cal Kestis engaging is some lightsaber combat, a Pau’an narrator who may be the primary antagonist, as well as another unknown individual in a bacta tank....

Alongside the announcement is a trailer that tells us a little bit about the deal with Starfield. Which, to be honest, isn’t much. It’s science fiction with space exploration, but nothing much beyond that. Naturally, there’s no gameplay here to be had. But according to a video hosted on The Washington Post, players in Starfield will play a member of Constellation. The organisation is dubbed “the last group of space explorers”....

The announcement came via the Steam Database Twitter account, which also points out that Borderlands 2 is the first game to benefit from this feature. It goes on to say that over 4000 reviews have been excluded from the game’s Review Score calculation. — Steam Database (@SteamDB) April 6, 2019 While their scores are not taken into account when calculating a game’s overall review score, the reviews themselves are still there....

In a community post, the company says this was a popular request from developers and publishers alike. Having more space between sales apparently gives “more opportunities throughout the year for developers to expand and execute their discounting calendar”. Valve also explains that the Steam Lunar New Year sale started in 2016, as the platform began getting an influx of both gamers and game devs from the far east. Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and South Korea were named specifically, with that last one being an odd inclusion in the list....

Besides confirming the 5.8GHz boost clock, the 13900K teaser video – which has since been made private – also confirms the CPU’s core count, which is rated at eight P-Cores, and 16 E-Cores, bringing the total thread count to 32. Unfortunately, that’s all the details the teaser offers. At this stage, we don’t think it’s wrong to say that the 13900K is Intel’s worst-kept secret this year. Earlier in the month, the chipmaker “accidentally” published details for three of its Raptor Lake CPUs: the 13900K, 13700K, and 13600K....

The game pays homage to both the original 1980s TMNT TV animation, as well as the 1991 arcade video game hit, TMNT: Turtles in Time, which was also based on the same animation. However, much like the original arcade game, Shredder’s Revenge is also a side-scrolling “beat ’em up”, complete with the same 4-player co-op system, allowing up to four players to take on the roles of Leonardo, Raphael, Michaelangelo, and Donatello....

They also feature a new 10MP ultra-wide camera alongside a LiDAR scanner that provides them with advance depth-sensing capability. The new 2020 iPad Pro tablets are also pre-installed with iPadOS 13.4 which allows them to support trackpad and mouse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09_QxCcBEyU Here is how their price tag looks like in Malaysia: 11-inch 2020 iPad Pro 128GB: RM 3,499 (Wi-Fi) / RM 4,149 (LTE) 256GB: RM 3,949 / RM 4,599 512GB: RM 4,849 / RM 5,499 1TB: RM 5,749 / RM 6,399 12....

At a glance, the ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 2080 Ti looks no different than a typical high-end, custom cooled graphics card. But as the saying goes; looks can be deceiving. Take off the screws that hold the entire cooler shroud in place, and what you’ll see upon lifting it up is the brand’s Infinity Loop. As mentioned earlier, The Infinity Loop’s design had taken the brand two years to design and create....

Life for Ben Affleck as Batman in the DCEU wasn’t easy. We all saw how distraught he was during the Batman V Superman press junkets after the incredibly poor critical reviews, mediocre fanfare and disappointing box office receipts. This was when the ‘Sad Affleck’ meme was born. According to The New York Times, to make matters worse, Affleck’s personal life was also starting to crumble around the same time. His marriage with Jennifer Garner was falling apart and the Oscar-winning director started to drink a lot again....