Monday, October 12, 2015

IT News Head Lines (TweakTown) 13/10/2015

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Star Wars Battlefront scarified resolution for performance and quality
Since the open beta of Star Wars Battlefront, EA and DICE have been more forward with releasing details on the inner workings of their latest first-person shooter. We know that the Xbox One version runs at 720p, while the PS4 sits at 900p. The PC version, as always, scales magnitudes...

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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided creator hates console ports on the PC
At this year's New York Comic-Con, a bunch of the people behind Deus Ex: Mankind Divided were in attendance, including the Eidos Montreal development team, and voice actor for protagonist Adam Jensen.
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided's Executive Game Director, Jean-Francois Dugas, had some choice words to add when it came...

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Enter 'Jurassic World' in our latest 3D Blu-ray giveaway
To celebrate this week's home video release of the summer's blockbuster sequel 'Jurassic World', we're very excited to be able to giveaway fifteen 3D Blu-ray copies to our readers, thanks to our friends at Universal Sony Pictures.
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Directed by Colin Trevorrow and executive produced by Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg,...

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EA extends the Star Wars Battlefront beta until October 13
EA has just announced that it has extended the Star Wars Battlefront beta until October 13, as the company wants to do some "additional tests" that will start tomorrow, and run through Tuesday.
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The company took to the Star Wars Battlefront blog, saying: "These tests are to help us find...
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Qualcomm unveils its new 24-core server CPU based on an ARM design

Qualcomm has just unveiled its plans to enter the server CPU market with a new custom processor based on an ARM design. Qualcomm's latest chip is being aimed at the likes of hyper-scale customers like Google and Facebook, as well as many service providers and large enterprises.
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ASUS unveils the super-small ROG Maximus VIII Impact motherboard

ASUS has just unveiled its latest Z170-based motherboard, the new ROG Maximus VIII Impact. The new Maximus Impact motherboard is the best yet, set to make it the centerpiece of new high-powered mini-ITX gaming PCs.
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The new ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Impact features Intel's latest Z170 chipset, compatible with the...
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Rise of the Tomb Raider goes gold, launches on November 10 in the US

A couple of days ago 343 Industries and Microsoft announced that Halo 5: Guardians went gold, and today Crystal Dynamics have announced that Rise of the Tomb Raider has gone live.
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Head of Product Development and Western Studios, Darrell Gallagher said: "We are pleased to confirm that gamers will be...
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Minecraft streamer buys $4.5 million house down the road from Notch

Just how successful are some YouTubers? Well, YouTube personality Jordan "CaptainSparklez" Maron mostly plays Minecraft, just spent $4.5 million on a new mansion in the Hollywood Hills. His new mansion is just down the road from the massive house that the creator of Minecraft, Markus "Notch" Persson, purchased recently.
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Blizzard teams with Microsoft, will stream Blizzcon 2015 to Xbox One

Microsoft has announced it has teamed up with Blizzard, joining Blizzcon 2015 as a sponsor. Blizzard fans will be able to watch the opening ceremony to Blizzcon on their Xbox One, which kicks off on Friday, November 6.
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Major Nelson wrote on his blog that there will be more details...
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Twitter reportedly planning layoffs that could start on October 13

Now that Jack Dorsey is back in the CEO throne of Twitter, rumor has it there will be layoff announcements coming on October 13, according to sources of both The New York Times and Recode.
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Recode is reporting that this is an attempt by the social network to better organize...
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Star Citizen secures huge Hollywood acting talent for Squadron 42 cast

Roberts Space Industries has just put another notch on the belt of Squadron 42, the first-person shooter module of Star Citizen, by announcing some serious Hollywood talent for the game.
Gary Oldman of The Dark Knight Trilogy, Gillian Anderson of X-Files fame, and Mark Hamill who should need no...
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Xbox boss says the PS4 has a 'huge lead' over the Xbox One

We know that Sony is ahead of Microsoft in this generation of consoles, but to hear it directly from the boss of Xbox feels weird. During the 2015 GeekWire Summit, Xbox boss Phil Spencer had some choice words on the future of gaming, Microsoft's competition with Sony and Nintendo, and...

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Half-Life 3 teased in a recent update to Dota 2

For one of the longest games in development, Half-Life 3 still eludes us. But something recently discovered by the Steam Database Twitter, an update to Dota 2 has teased the return of Gordon Freeman. In the update, there's a text document called 'hl3.txt' which has the following lines:
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