At this point, the Xbox (beta) app is the way you are supposed to browse and install Windows 10 titles, rather than using the standard Microsoft Store. The app has been slowly improving and this week, it got a pretty major update thanks to the addition of mod support. Windows …
Read More »Tim Sweeney says offering games for free can help increase their sales on other platforms
In an interview with Gamespot, Tim Sweeney from Epic Games claimed that the Epic Games Store giveaways can lead to increased sales on other platforms. Additionally, the founder of Epic Games also said that he plans to launch Epic Games Store for Android and iOS devices. The interview was part of …
Read More »Microsoft is shutting down Wunderlist next year and replacing it with To-Do
Back in June 2015, Microsoft spent an estimated $100 million to acquire the Wunderlist app. During that time, Microsoft has been keeping Wunderlist alive and slowly building up its own competing app called ‘To-Do’. Now in 2020, Wunderlist will officially be closed down, with Microsoft’s To-Do app set to replace …
Read More »Soon you’ll be able to stream Steam games to iOS and Android
It has been a few years since Valve first unveiled the Steam Link, and over time, we’ve been wondering what the next step is for Steam in-home streaming. Now Valve has lifted the curtain on its plans, announcing the Steam Link app for iOS and Android, which will let you …
Read More »Spotify set to show off mobile app changes next week
Update (17/04/18): Last week, we heard that Spotify was planning to make changes to its free tier on mobile. This news landed shortly after the company put itself up for public investment and disclosed that millions of mobile users were resorting to modded mobile apps to access better features. Now, …
Read More »Amazon said to be launching its own messaging app to compete with WhatsApp, Snapchat and more
We recently heard that Amazon might just be looking to return to the smartphone business, after the company’s original Fire Phone failed commercially. Now this week, we are hearing even more about Amazon’s future mobile plans, with the retailer apparently planning to launch its own messaging service in an effort …
Read More »VRChat debuts expansive, free, VR social hangouts
If you’ve been waiting for the customisable VR hangouts from Ready Player One to become a reality, now’s the time to get excited. VRChat has now been launched on Steam Early Access, offering a tonne of personable play spaces to hang out with friends in VR and out. VRChat is …
Read More »Facebook Messenger to begin displaying adverts
If you thought using Facebook’s Messenger application was a good way to avoid seeing all of the adverts on the Facebook main site, think again. In what will begin as a small-scale trial in select territories, Facebook is set to begin running adverts within the app itself, providing links to …
Read More »Super Mario Run is the fastest growing mobile app ever
Super Mario Run might have annoyed a lot of people by restricting the majority of its content behind a paywall, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been popular. In fact it’s the fastest growing app ever, even beating out the likes of Pokémon Go. In the four days following its …
Read More »Sky Sports Premier League now has a commentary chat bot
Football fan app-maker, GameOn, has announced a partnership with Sky Sports, to bring an interactive chat and commentary bot to a number of social networking messaging platforms. Able to understand natural language requests from users, GameOn’s bot can provide commentary on ongoing games, answer questions and can provide news and …
Read More »Plants vs Zombies Heroes, is a collectable, lane-based card game
Plants vs Zombies might have begun life as a slightly off-kilter tower defence game when that genre wasn’t completely tapped, but since then it’s evolved into a lot of other things. From sequels to third person shooters, we’re now able to play a brand new Plants vs Zombies experience in …
Read More »Pokémon Go is the highest earning iOS app in the U.S., UK, Canada
Pokémon Go is easily one of the biggest breakout hits of 2016, but by most counts its user base and particularly its paying customers, really dropped off after a few weeks. It seems like they might be making a comeback however, as two new reports have pinned Pokémon Go as …
Read More »Nintendo shares hit after meteoric rise on ‘Go confidence
Pokémon Go ignited the world’s interest in Pokémon once again, which in turn saw Nintendo share prices explode by more than 100 per cent of their value in just a couple of weeks. Since then though, as the reality of the game sinks in, confidence has cooled somewhat and stock …
Read More »Not just for hookups: Tinder Social now available worldwide
Tinder might be one one of the world’s most popular ways to hook up with someone that you might want to swap fluids with, but that’s not all the company behind it wants it to do. Tinder Social is now available on both iOS and Android and makes it possible …
Read More »Facebook to take on Snapchat with in-development camera app
Ever since Snapchat turned down Facebook’s $3 billion acquisition offer in mid-2013, the social network has been hankering for its own share of the Snapchat pie. Evidently it’s now decided that: if you can’t join them, beat them, as Facebook is said to be working on a photo sharing app …
Read More »Facebook set to recruit army of chat bots for customer service
As much as companies have made great strides in improving customer service over the past few years, offering social media responses, live-chats on websites and more localised call centres, they’re still far from perfect. To help improve that, Facebook is looking to recruit chat bots to answer more people’s questions, …
Read More »Google’s Revolv closure shows danger of cloud dependant hardware
Google is back as the black sheep of the tech world for many end users this week, after it announced that it would be shuttering, Revolv, a maker of smart-home hubs that Google purchased less than two years ago. But this raises a bigger concern for technology fans, as much …
Read More »Google now allows app installations from search on Android
Google has given Android users a way to bypass the Play Store by allowing you to install an app directly from the Google Search results page. This feature began rolling out this week, so from now on when you Google search for an app, you will see an install icon …
Read More »Yahoo Mail just killed off passwords
A while back, Yahoo began its move away from traditional passwords by offering users single-use SMS codes to log in to their accounts. Now, things have progressed further, with Yahoo introducing what is called the ‘Account Key’, which allows mail users to log in using push notifications on their smartphone, …
Read More »Starbucks brings app-based pre-order, pre-pay to UK
If companies like Uber have shown us anything, it’s that a lot of businesses could benefit from changing up their payment and ordering systems to something app-based. Starbucks is a company that took that idea and ran with it towards the end of last year when it began allowing U.S. …
Read More »Apple has released its ‘Move to iOS’ app on Android
Apple didn’t just launch iOS 9 last night, but it also launched its recently announced tool to help Android users switch over to an iPhone. ‘Move to iOS’ is Apple’s first Android app and it does exactly what the name suggests, it helps Android users move their pictures, contacts, bookmarks, …
Read More »Cyanogen wants to integrate Cortana with its OS
Microsoft recently released its digital assistant, Cortana, for Android as a standalone app. However, Cyanogen has some bigger plans in mind, mulling over the possibility of deeply integrating Cortana with Cyanogen OS in order to access functions similar to those you would find on Cortana for Windows Phone or Siri on …
Read More »Pokemon Go: catch ’em all in the real world
Catching Pokemon has traditionally involved walking around in a bunch of grass, or dirt, or other areas where predatory cartoon beasts can leap out and attack a human far larger than themselves, who also happens to be carrying up to six highly trained animals of their own. That same sort …
Read More »Android is getting an official Reddit app
Reddit is often referred to as the front page of the internet and for good reason, the site gets a ton of traffic. However, the site has had a pretty limited presence on smartphones and mobile devices, though that is set to change as an official Android app is in …
Read More »Roald Dahl characters to return in new app games
The Twits and other Roald Dahl characters might have frightened, inspired and amazed children of many generations past, but they’ve never been brought to the fore in quite such a style as this. In a series of new applications, the classical author’s most iconic characters are set to make their …
Read More »Automated cars of the future may have app control
Although the development of automated cars is coming on apace, one of the biggest issues is what to do when they don’t work. Of course the end goal is to make cars that can drive us around without intervention, but even when we go beyond motorway and traffic jam autonomy, …
Read More »Microsoft might acquire the Wunderlist app for $100 million
It looks like Microsoft is looking to expand on its list of mobile apps as the company is apparently interested in acquiring the Wunderlist app from German mobile firm, 6Wunderkinder GmbH. If true, then Wunderlist will become one of the many apps and services Microsoft is bringing to iOS and …
Read More »Philips develops supermarket navigation system using LEDs
For people that don’t shop for their food online, finding their way around supermarkets isn’t always the easiest of tasks. If they haven’t been there before or staff have rearranged everything, they are forced to rely on signs hanging from the ceiling and spotting the particular product they want can take a while. …
Read More »Amazon launches new advert scheme on mobiles
Amazon is looking to poke its digits into more digital pies this week, with the announcement that it has launched a new advertising scheme for mobiles, designed to help app makers promote their software on Android and Amazon Fire devices. This scheme will go after the two dominant companies in …
Read More »Windows 10 preview update adds features to Xbox app
The Windows 10 Preview received the official Xbox app back in January but since then, the app hasn’t received any big content updates. However, Microsoft is set to change that next month by adding in its Game DVR feature for PC games, screenshots, avatars, live tiles and Xbox One media …
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