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...The game is available to play for free, but players can use its in-game currency, V-Bucks, to buy virtual items, from outfits to accessories and weapons, to personalise their characters....
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...Players of Fortnite, developed by Epic, were able to purchase an in-game currency known as “V-bucks” online, but these credits would not show up when playing on the iPhone....
...There was a March release date given for Gran Turismo 7 and the unfortunate slippage of Grand Theft Auto V from November to March. Axios has more....
...It’s been a zero-sum game all along.” The Internet of (Five) Things 1....
...Friday: Nanofilm Technology lists on the Singapore stock exchange, the biggest IPO in the city state in years....
...The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite slid 0.9 per cent, while the FTSE All-World index dropped 1 per cent....
...EA also launched Battlefield V Firestorm, a “battle royale” mode of its popular war franchise, and online multiplayer game Anthem during the latest quarter....
...The company said it sold 7.3m copies of Battlefield V during the fiscal third period, about 1m fewer than hoped....
...The release date for the newest Battlefield game, Battlefield V, has been pushed back four weeks to November 20, meaning some of the money expected from the game will now hit the ledger in fiscal 2020....
...They also offer some relief to investors who feared that the rise of games like Fortnite would undercut some of the big gaming companies’ momentum....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...Xbox One X on sale today Microsoft was king of the video game hill with the Xbox 360, but things haven’t gone nearly as well for the Xbox One....
...But some “patent trolls” were playing a game of legal arbitrage, filing as many patents as possible to get larger companies to settle with them for the use of their technology....
...Verdict Instagram Stories has one advantage that may help it beat Snapchat at its own game: it plugs into your existing social network, so you can automatically see stories from everyone you already follow...
...Apps and games are becoming more sophisticated, consuming more processing power. A lot has to do with users: the more time we spend staring at our screens, the faster the batteries drain....
...Max Schrems, the Austrian student who leads the privacy campaign “Europe v Facebook”, tweeted triumphantly on Tuesday: “The game is on!”...
...“People focus on hardware way too much — it’s a content business, not a technology business,” he continues. “You can’t put Grand Theft Auto V on an iPhone, it’s not the same experience....
...AndroidN: The latest Android operating system includes new graphics capabilities aimed at games developers and security updates....
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
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...“We have to adapt,” said JJ Abrams at CinemaCon, to what he called the “age of piracy, digital technology and disruption”....
...In the next few years, journalism will redefine itself, largely through the power of technology....
...Zynga, aside from a modestly popular online poker game, has not had a hit since FarmVille. The difference between the companies goes much deeper than poker v matching candies....
...Take Two Entertainment's GTA V sold $800m worth of copies on its first day last September....
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