Unity, the company behind the popular game development engine of the same name, recently laid off hundreds of employees, multiple sources say. Kotaku† Founded in the mid-2000s, Unity is used by thousands of developers; you’ve almost certainly seen its logo appear in the loading screens for some of your favorite or least favorite games. In …
Google Chat is officially the dominant chat app on the Google Workspaces platform. Photo† Florence Ion / Gizmodo Google is officially requests Hangouts holdouts to migrate to the new messaging suite called Chat. Starting today, if you’re still using Hangouts on your mobile device, you’ll see an in-app screen prompting you to go to Chat …
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Photo† Valve For those of you who have watched longingly (…or enviously) as a lucky few get to play with their beautiful new steam decksWell, I have good news. Valve has announced that it will be sending out Q3 Steam Deck reservation emails later this week. And it also confirmed that it will actually ship …
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†Schopenhauer always talked about creative destruction. New innovations often destroy old dominance. And that’s what you want to do, because you’re not going to beat Microsoft at their game. But you can beat them in a game you own.’† That’s the advice from Atari founder and mass-market video game maker Nolan Bushnell to current CEO …
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Valve’s Steam Deck is a cool one portable pc you probably don’t want to change too much. However, if the creative juices start flowing and you feel the need to tinker with it, Valve user experience designer Lawrence Yang recommends at least a mod that increases the literal size of the Deck’s SSD. The reason? …
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Zachtronics will be released on July 5th Last call BBS, a collection of stylish little puzzle games wrapped in a retro PC gaming vibe. After 11 years in business (and even longer outside of commercial releases), a time when the studio has developed a cult following almost unrivaled in indie gaming, this will be the …
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Photo† BigTunaOnline †Shutterstock† Earlier this week we covered Chrome 103, and all the new features Google has added to the latest version of its desktop web browser. It turns out that the company also has updated its iOS Chrome app to version 103. However, this is not a copy and paste scenario: Chrome 103 for …
Microsoft Edge GamingImage† Microsoft In front of Side to steal market share from Chrome, Microsoft will have to find ways to differentiate the relative newcomer from Google’s ubiquitous option. Features like Collections (which work like bookmarks, but for groups of web pages) are a good start, and now Microsoft is giving gamers a reason to …
The latest Chrome OS update makes your Chromebook feel a little more Apple-y, as some of Chrome OS’s neat new capabilities rely on having an Android phone in tow. Google announced today that Chrome OS M103 is officially rolling out after being in beta for a few months. It contains features we have been waiting …
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Photo† KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP †Getty Images† Ultimately, Google and other big technology companies want renounce passwords fully, but until that day comes, a Google Password Manager feature called on-device encryption might be your best bet to protect your precious codes. Although it came out quietly before this springas you can now easily access Google Password Manager …
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