Early Saatva Labor Day Sales 2024: Save up to $900 On Our Favorite Mattresses
- August 19, 2024
This luxury brand is worth the price—especially at a discount.
The 22 best PC games you can play right now for 2024
- August 19, 2024
PC gamers have almost too many options when it comes to titles to play, which is a great problem to have. With decades of games to choose from (and the first port of call for most indie titles, too), the options are endless. You also get the perks of (nearly always flawless) backward compatibility and console-beating graphical performance — if you’ve got the coin for it when you’re building your perfect kit or picking up a high-powered gaming laptop. The whole idea of what a gaming PC is and where you can play it is shifting, too, with the rise of handheld gaming PCs like the Steam Deck. We’ve tried to be broad with our recommendations here on purpose; here are the best PC games you can play right now.
Best PC games to play right now
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-best-pc-games-150000910.html?src=rss
What Are the Different Motherboard Sizes?
- August 19, 2024
Not sure whether you need an ATX, micro ATX, mini ITX, or eATX board for your new PC? We’ve got you covered.
10 Best Digital Notebooks, Tablets, and Smart Pens (2024)
- August 19, 2024
These nifty tools combine the ease of jotting notes by hand with the power of saving them digitally.
The Morning After: Google apologizes over its Pixel influencer demands
- August 19, 2024
The relationship between tech companies and influencers can be murky. A recent post on Threads showed part of the sign-up form to receive Pixel devices for influencers and YouTubers, mandating that signees feature Google’s hardware “in place of any competitor mobile devices” or else “we will need to cease the relationship between the brand and the creator.”
First, our Engadget editors didn’t get this when they signed up for review samples for the four (yes, four) new Pixel phones. It transpired this was for the Team Pixel program, set up by Google to communicate with creators and, it seems, send them devices.
Google responded: “The goal of #TeamPixel is to get Pixel devices into the hands of content creators, not press and tech reviewers. We missed the mark with this new language that appeared in the #TeamPixel form yesterday, and it has been removed.”
It’s not yet clear if these Team Pixel members have received a new agreement, but will the demands remain, just not baked into a Google form or contract? The company is sending devices out so creators can try out (and talk up) the Pixel 9 series — if they don’t, Google may fail to see the point.
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Fortnite returns to iOS in the EU as the Epic Games Store debuts on mobile
Fall Guys is on smartphones for the first time too.
Epic Games
Epic has finally brought the Epic Games Store to mobile devices. The app marketplace is now available on iOS in the European Union (after the bloc required Apple to allow third-party app stores on iPhone and iPad) and on Android worldwide. As a result, Fortnite is once again available on iOS without laborious workarounds. The store is bringing Fall Guys to iOS and Android for the first time, with nearly full parity with the console and PC versions, minus the level builder.
How to watch all of Xbox’s Gamescom streams
And the big opening night stream.
Gamescom is Germany’s huge annual gaming trade show. This year, Microsoft has announced a major Xbox presence throughout the event. The first is the opening night livestream, which kicks off on August 20 at 2PM ET. While that stream isn’t Xbox-centric, we’re expecting some relevant news during the keynote. It will be available via the Gamescom YouTube page. Then there are three streams from Xbox, each focusing on a different slate of games.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/general/the-morning-after-google-apologizes-over-its-pixel-influencer-demands-111513252.html?src=rss
Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.
- August 19, 2024
TV software is getting loaded with ads, changing what it means to own a TV set.
Ricoh GR III and GR IIIx Digital Camera Review: Nearly the Perfect Cameras
- August 19, 2024
Five years since its release, the Ricoh GR III is still one of the best compact cameras you can buy.
Harris roasted for latest word salad about ‘duality’ of democracy: ‘This is why she can’t go off script’
- August 19, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris was widely mocked on social media after making a comment on the "duality to the nature of democracy" at a campaign event in Pennsylvania.
With 18 days until voting starts, ‘election season’ kicks off sooner than you think
- August 19, 2024
Early voting begins as soon as Sept. 6 for Americans who are eligible, and if the last two election cycles are any indication, many citizens will have already voted.
