Month: October 2023
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft embarks on a six-year journey to its asteroid namesake
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has blasted off and begun a six-year, 2.2-billion-mile journey to a peculiar asteroid. Astronomers have speculated that the space rock, also named Psyche, was once the partial core of a small planet in the early days of the Solar System. The seemingly iron- and nickel-rich asteroid may…
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Netflix’s Squid Game reality show has an official release date
Squid Game: The Challenge, Netflix’s reality show based on Squid Game that will pit 456 people against each other for $4.56 million, will debut on November 22nd, the company announced on Friday. For people based in the US, I’m guessing that means a lot of families will be watching this…
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I am dying to know who purchased a new Wii U in September
The news comes to us via Mat Piscatella, video game industry analyst at Circana (formerly NPD), a company that regularly publishes video game retail data. That this news is coming from him means this wasn’t somebody picking up a Wii U at a reseller or from eBay. Somewhere, somehow, there…
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10 best early Black Friday deals this week (Oct 13)
Is it too early to talk about Black Friday deals? No way! The end-of-year shopping season has well and truly begun. Not only did Amazon‘s Prime Big Deal Days sale take place this week, but Walmart and Best Buy also launched huge deals events. The good news is that all…
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Watch iFixit tear down the Meta Quest 3 in this beautifully shot video
David called the Meta Quest 3 “better than its predecessors in almost every way” in our full Verge review — but what’s it like on the inside? iFixit now has the answer in a brilliant teardown video that gets right up close to the gadget’s delightfully shiny guts. You won’t…
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Ubisoft and Activision Blizzard’s deal for cloud gaming rights, explained
Microsoft’s giant Activision Blizzard deal is complete, and it means Ubisoft has now obtained cloud streaming rights for Call of Duty, all other current Activision Blizzard games, and any coming over the next 15 years. It was a key concession from Microsoft that helped get the deal over the line…
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