Monthly Archives: October 2018
Xbox Free Games With Gold for November Announced
Microsoft has announced the Xbox Free Games With Gold titles for November 2018.
The games coming to the service include Battlefield 1, Assassin’s Creed, Race the Sun and Dante’s Inferno. Battlefield 1 and Race the Sun are Xbox One titles while Assassin’s Creed and Dante’s Inferno are both Xbox 360 games that can be played on the Xbox One through backward compatibility.
Here’s when each title will be available for Xbox Live Gold members next month:
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Battlefield 1: November 1 - 30 (Xbox One)
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Race the Sun: November 16 - December 15 (Xbox One)
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Assassin’s Creed: November 1 - 15 (Xbox 360/Xbox One)
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The 10 Best Fights From Netflix’s Marvel Universe
Warning! Full SPOILERS for all of the seasons of Marvel/Netflix shows ahead!
We love superheroes because of their incredible powers, fascinating origin stories, heart-breaking challenges - and their supremely awesome a$$-kicking. As animalistic as it may seem, it’s true, many fans love a good beatdown - and there’s no shortage of that in Netflix’s Marvel Universe shows.
In the video below, the IGN staff came together to compile a list of our favorite fights in no particular order:
Daredevil Season 1, Episode 2 “Cut Man” - Hallway fight
New iPad Pro Announced at Apple Event
Apple announced a new iPad Pro at the Apple event Tuesday morning in Brooklyn, NY.
The new iPad Pro offers the same LCD screen that is on the newly released iPhone XR – the Liquid Retina Display.
The display has been bumped up to an 11" screen, as well as offering another 12.9" option. The screen now stretches from edge-to-edge and from top-to-bottom. Corners on the display are rounded as well.
The iPad Pro holds an A12 X Bionic chip and is 90% faster. It is also 5.9 mm thin –15% thinner than before and approximately 25% less volume.
Face ID is also a feature on the new iPad Pro, offering security for owners and almost instant unlocking of the iPad.
Apple Announces New MacBook Air With Retina Display
Apple announced a new MacBook Air during its special live event in New York City.
The Retina-display on the MacBook Air measures 13.3-inches and has a resolution of "over 4 million pixels." The bezel on the screen of the new MacBook Air is also improved, slimmed down to barely-there proportions. The new Air has "17 percent less volume" than the previous MacBook Air, weighing 2.75 pounds.
The processor is an eighth-generation Intel processor with onboard graphics and memory capabilities topping out at only 16GB of RAM. Secondary memory by way of SSD capacity has also been improved over the previous version, topping out at 1.5TB.
Preorders begin today, starting at $1199. The Air comes out next week.
Apple Announces New Mac Mini
Apple announced a new Mac Mini at the Apple event on Tuesday, which is the biggest update the mini has ever received.
The cores have been updated with quad and 6-core processors with turbo boosts up to 4.6GHZ. There is now up to 64GB of memory, and all-flash storage options.
The new Mac Mini is five times faster than its predecessor and has four Thunderbolt 3 ports, two USB-A, HDMI video, audio, and Ethernet ports up to 10Gbps.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Nintendo Direct Announced
Nintendo has announced that there will be a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct and a Nintendo Treehouse: Live Presentation on Thursday, November 1 at 7am PT/10am ET/2pm BST.
Revealed on Nintendo's Twitter, the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Nintendo Direct will contain "roughly 40 minutes of new information" and will be the final Direct before the launch of the latest Smash Bros. on December 7, 2018.
Battlefield V Won’t Include Microtransactions at Launch
Battlefield V won't include microtransactions at launch, EA DICE has announced. Microtransactions will be added post-launch using a paid in-game currency called Battlefield Currency, but DICE promises they will only be used for cosmetic items.
"We want players to get hands-on experience with their Company
, the progression system, and earning Company Coin before introducing premium currency," DICE said. "Balanced rock-paper-scissors gameplay has always been the foundation of the Battlefield series, and our belief is that real-world money should not enable pay-to-win or pay-for-power."
How Thanos’ Snap Victims Could Return in Avengers 4
Avengers: Infinity War ends with Thanos snapping away half the universe and killing numerous heroes. But are they really dead? That seems to be the big question fans are debating as we wait the torturous months until the release of Avengers 4.
If you’re anything like me, then you’re confident there’s no way all those characters are permanently dead. I mean, Spider-Man and Black Panther have new movies coming out. It’s pretty much a given in the MCU fandom that the victims of the Snappening are going to come back in Avengers 4. The question is how? (Assuming the Avengers don’t just fix the Infinity Gauntlet and snap everyone back to life because that would not be satisfying.)
Switch Sales Pass 22 Million, Zelda: Breath of the Wild Hits 10 Million Copies Sold
The Nintendo Switch continues to be a sales success, with Nintendo's latest financial report placing the console at nearly 23 million units sold since its launch last year.
In a new earnings report, Nintendo revealed that over the last six months the Switch has managed to sell more than 5 million units, with a slight increase in sales compared to this time last year.
The new numbers now mean the Switch has almost doubled sales of the Wii U, and has overtaken GameCube's total figure.
During this time, Mario Tennis Aces managed to sell more than 2 million copies, while Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze sold more than 1.5 million.