Month: February 2021
See ‘Solar Ash’ in action for the first time in a PS5 gameplay video
Solar Ash is poised to be a fast-paced, smooth-as-silk action platformer from Hyper Light Drifter studio Heart Machine, and now there's a trailer to prove it. Heart Machine first showed off Solar Ash in June during Sony's big PlayStation 5 g… Source
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Newsela, the replacement for textbooks, raises $100M and becomes a unicorn
Newsela, a SaaS platform for K-12 instructional material backed by the likes of TCV, Kleiner Perkins, Reach Capital and Owl Ventures, announced today that it has raised $100 million in a Series D round. The financing was led by new investor Franklin Templeton, and brings Newsela’s valuation to $1 billion.…
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Apple releases macOS update to prevent damage from third-party docks and dongles
Apple is once again releasing an update to prevent a charging problem from killing MacBooks — this time it’s to fix a problem where 2019 and later MacBook Pros, and 2020 and later MacBook Airs were being damaged when connected to third-party USB-C hubs and docks (via MacRumors). It’s unclear…
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Xbox Live is down with a major outage – here’s what isn’t working Xbox
Xbox Live is down with a major outage, according to the official Microsoft Xbox status page and the fact that we can’t log in right now on our Xbox Series X. The online gaming service has been down for more than three hours at of 7pm EST. “We are aware…
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Final Fantasy VII Remake’s amazing soundtrack hits Spotify and Apple Music tomorrow
Final Fantasy VII Remake’s soundtrack will be available to stream on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music Unlimited, and other music subscription services tomorrow, February 26th, Square Enix announced on Thursday. It will have an eye-popping (ear-popping?) 156 tracks, according to a press release. The game’s soundtrack was an excellent reimagining…
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Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis compiles the entire FFVII timeline into one mobile game
Square Enix announced two mobile games set in the Final Fantasy VII universe today. One is a battle royale game aiming for a 2021 release, and the other is Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis, a compilation of all the games and stories set in the Final Fantasy VII universe (Final…
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