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From the very beginning, director Masahiro Sakurai had a bold vision for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: he wanted the game to include every single character from the series’s long history. It would mean a lot of work, covering everything from negotiating for the rights to the likes of Mega Man and Metal Gear’s Solid Snake to updating the graphics so that older characters didn’t look out of place. Ever the perfectionist, Sakurai also wanted to adjust each fighter in an attempt to speed up the game. Читать дальше...

Logitech is launching a new keyboard called the G512 that features a new switch called the GX Blue. The switch is designed for mechanical keyboard users who want a sort of audible “click” feedback during actuation on the keyboard. It’s a sort of middle ground between Logitech’s tactile and near-silent linear switches. The gaming accessories brand is also providing the switch as an option for its older G513 mechanical gaming keyboard.

Microsoft is reportedly planning to launch its next-generation Xbox console in 2020. While Xbox chief Phil Spencer acknowledged this week that the software giant is “deep into architecturing the next Xbox consoles,” Brad Sams at Thurrott.com reports that the next-gen Xbox will arrive in 2020. Microsoft is reportedly working on a “family of devices” under the Scarlett codename, which would also align closely to Spencer’s mention of Xbox “consoles” and not a single console.

Ferrofluid really is the stuff of science fiction. It was created at NASA as a way to move fuel in space, and someday soon, it may be used to pilot medicine through your body.

A Wi-Fi router startup is trying to shake up how we think about home Wi-Fi in a major way: by turning it into a subscription service.

Vivo has announced a new flagship device called the Nex, a phone that the Chinese company claims “fulfills the bezel-less dream.” The Nex is based on Apex, the impressive concept phone we saw at Mobile World Congress in February. Like Apex, the Nex avoids the now-ubiquitous display notch by employing an elevating selfie camera that pops out from the top edge of the phone when required. This allows the Nex to achieve a screen-to-body ratio of 91.24 percent, Vivo says, though there is still a slight “chin” at the bottom of the screen. Читать дальше...

The big focus of Nintendo’s E3 presence is likely to be the upcoming installment of Super Smash Bros. for the Switch. In May, the developer revealed the latest entry in the franchise, due out this year, and very little else.

HTC still does a lot of things well, but its new ideas miss the mark

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Electric car startup Byton stepped into the spotlight this past January when it showed off a flashy concept SUV at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show. Now the company is already pulling the cover off of a second concept — a sedan this time, also all-electric — at CES Asia in Shanghai this week, just one day after announcing a new $500 million round of funding.

The biggest video game at E3 2018 this week doesn’t need its own press conference. Epic Games’ Fortnite and its presence here at the gaming industry’s largest annual convention can be felt everywhere, from the big keynote addresses of the world’s largest game publishers to the pervasive e-sports theme underscoring much of the live entertainment here in Los Angeles.

Facebook will now let you file a complaint about businesses you’ve had a problem with, if you bought something after clicking on one of their ads. If enough people complain about a business, it could lead to Facebook banning the company from running ads.

Nomad’s original battery cable was a surprisingly brilliant idea: integrate a small battery into an iPhone charging cable to give you an extra power boost on the go. And now, the company is back with an updated version that improves on the original in a few small, but useful ways.

India is Uber’s last stand in Asia. The ride-hailing giant is doubling down on the nation of 1.3 billion people after selling off its business in China and Southeast Asia. And in order to reach as many people in India as possible, Uber is releasing a new minimal version of its app that saves space, works on any network, and is compatible with any basic Android phone.

India is Uber’s last stand in Asia. The ride-hailing giant is doubling down on the nation of 1.3 billion people after selling off its business in China and Southeast Asia. And in order to reach as many people in India as possible, Uber is releasing a new minimal version of its app that saves space, works on any network, and is compatible with any basic Android phone.

Sony took a slightly different approach than its peers at E3 2018. Instead of packing as many games as possible into its conference, à la Microsoft, it made room for a smaller number of titles to lovingly chew the scenery, showing off with extended gameplay footage — and a surprising number of stomach-turning moments.

For 2018, Sony decided to keep its E3 keynote very focused. The show was almost entirely dedicated to four upcoming games that we already know about: The Last of Us Part II, Death Stranding, Ghost of Tsushima, and Insomniac’s Spider-Man. But while it wasn’t as packed as in year’s past, it did offer some deep looks at some excellent games. It was also pretty damn gruesome, and Sony managed to sneak in a couple of surprises as well. If you missed the show, you can check it all out right here.

Dark Souls and Bloodborne creator From Software is making an exclusive virtual reality game for Sony’s PlayStation VR platform called Déraciné. The game was officially unveiled at Sony’s PlayStation E3 keynote this evening in Los Angeles with a teaser trailer. From the admittedly short glimpses of it, Déraciné looks like a will be a substantial departure away from the action-oriented and horror approach of From Software’s more recent and celebrated titles in the Soulsborne series.

Although video game graphics continue to improve every year, depicting intimacy in a human and convincing way is still tricky — as often as not, when things get hot and heavy in games, it tends to look stilted and wooden. But in its new trailer for The Last of Us Part II, Naughty Dog delivered a master class in intimate animation — and the most striking thing was how much attention the studio put into the smallest details.

Sony just showed off the first trailer for Capcom's remake of Resident Evil 2, which sees Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield struggle to survive into a zombie-overrun Raccoon City. The trailer doesn't feature live gameplay, but it's entirely 3D-rendered; the game apparently moves away from the pre-rendered backdrops of the original game as well as the lauded remake of the first Resident Evil. Capcom says it features a “new over-the-shoulder camera mode and modernized control scheme,” suggesting it'll play more like Resident Evil 4 than 2. Читать дальше...

Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts 3 has been in the works for more than 12 years, and now we’ve finally got a release date in January of next year. To celebrate the final stretch, the publisher brought not one or even two, but three distinct trailers to E3 this year. It showed off one at each of the big press conferences, including one at Sony’s this evening that confirmed a Pirates of the Caribbean world with Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow and Orlando Bloom’s Will Turner. Another confirmed a world based on Disney’s Frozen. Читать дальше...

Remedy Entertainment showed up at Sony’s E3 press conference with a surprise: a new third-person action-adventure game called Control, which seemed to feature the sort of slow-motion, time-bending gameplay from the studio’s last (Xbox One exclusive) game, Quantum Break.

But this year, just a few months out from Spider-Man’s planned September 7th release date, Sony and Insomniac Games are blowing the lid off what to expect from the swinging superhero’s video game return, with a deep dive during Sony’s E3 presentation of gameplay, combat, and the all-important web-swinging in a new extended trailer.

Hideo Kojima and Norman Reedus are back to break our brains with an outlandish new trailer for Death Stranding. It’s still hard to make sense of what Death Stranding actually is, but the imagery sure is evocative. You’ve got babies, terrifying invisible monsters, and maybe something about environmental collapse?

Ghost of Tsushima is an upcoming title set in feudal Japan from the makers of the Infamous series of superhero games, and they just showed off the first gameplay trailer for the PlayStation 4 exclusive.

E3 can sometimes be a draining conference. After all, it is a show primarily about video games, and video games, even in 2018, have the unfortunate tendency to focus on guns and blood and gore and murder and explosions and stabbings and guns.