Sunday, January 3, 2016

IT News Head Lines (TweakTown) 04/01/2016

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Windows 95 can boot up on a Nintendo 3DS handheld
Homebrew creations never cease to amaze me. Just this week we saw hackers jailbreak a PS4 to run Linux and play a Pokemon handheld game, opening the doors for current-gen homebrew creations. Now those enterprising console-crackers have found a way to get Windows 95 to successfully run on Nintendo's New...

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Star Citizen developer reiterates its commitment to VR
During an end-of-year livestream by Roberts Space Industries last month, Chris Roberts gave some more details on the VR side of Star Citizen.
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Roberts said that RSI would be refocusing its VR efforts for Star Citizen in the coming months, adding "The status of VR integration is that we've been...
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Microsoft has 'more new IP' than ever before on Xbox One for 2016

Microsoft needs to have a huge 2016 for the Xbox One to be able to compete against the onslaught of mobile gaming, PC gaming, the PS4 and VR - with Oculus launching its Rift in Q1, and HTC with its Vive in April.
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Xbox boss Phil Spencer has taken to...
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Brooklyn and Manhattan can be explored in The Division

Ubisoft's upcoming tactical shooter, The Division, has passed the ESRB Rating - coming in at 'M' for Mature.
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In the rating summary for The Division, we are learning a little more about what Ubisoft has in store for us later this year. We now know that The Division will feature...
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Myst and Riven creator teases new trailer for VR-ready Obduction

If you haven't heard about Obduction by now, you might have heard of some huge games from the 90s in the form of Myst and Riven. Cyan, the developer behind Obduction, released a new 30-second tease to Obduction over the holidays - check it out below.
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Have a peek at Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Flight drone technology

With CES 2016 incoming, Qualcomm hypes up its new Snapdragon Flight drone tech with a teaser clip.
Not content with just dominating the land with its mobile processors, the chipmakers at Qualcomm have now set their sights on the skies. Using its new tiny 58 x 40cm circuit board...
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Faith looks 'more mature' in Mirror's Edge Catalyst

Mirror's Edge Catalyst will be released this year, and we're finally hearing more information on the next adventure of Faith from EA and DICE.
According to DICE's senior concept artist, Per Haagensen, Faith will look "more mature" in Mirror's Edge Catalyst. Haagensen added that DICE wants to show off...
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EA has shipped over 12 million copies of Star Wars Battlefront

While gamers aren't too happy with Star Wars Battlefront, EA has shipped 12 million copies of the game to date, according to Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter.
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Back in November, EA shipped 6 million copies, with another 6 million copies being shipped out in December. With these shipped copies of...
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Rise of the Tomb Raider bundled with GeForce cards starting January 7

We heard rumors that it was happening, but now it looks like NVIDIA will be providing copies of Rise of the Tomb Raider with certain GeForce cards starting next week.
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As of January 7, Rise of the Tomb Raider will be bundled with the GeForce GTX 970, GTX 980, GTX...
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Activision buys the majority of eSports giant Major League Gaming

It was only back in October 2015 that Activision announced its new eSports division led by the founder of Major League Gaming and the former CEO of ESPN - but now, the company responsible for the Call of Duty franchise has secured the majority of MLG's assets.
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Xbox One with AMD's next-gen Polaris architecture teased

It was only a couple of days ago that we heard that AMD's next-gen GPU architecture would be called Polaris, but now we're hearing about a refreshed Xbox One that would feature this new GPU.
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The news is coming from a rumor posted on the Overclock.net forums, where you can...
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Oculus Rift touch controllers delayed to second half of 2016

Oculus VR has announced that the Oculus Rift's Touch controllers won't be launching alongside the VR headset, and have been delayed to the second half of 2016.
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In a recent blog post, the VR pioneers at Oculus said they need more time to perfect the wireless VR peripheral. Luckily, this...
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Just Cause 3 multiplayer mod in the making

The mod team that brought you the fantastic Just Cause 2 multiplayer mod is at it again, and by that I mean it's developing a multiplayer mod for the more recent Just Cause 3. You can see the early stages of progress in the video below. There certainly seems to...

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US Marine Corps put robotic mule project on backburner

The $32 million collaboration between the Google-owned Boston Dynamics team and DARPA has been put on the backburner indefinitely, as the US Marines Corps has decided not to go forward with the LS3 "robotic mule" produced by the project. The main reason: it's too damn loud. Repairs and squad integration...

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Windows 10 now installed on 1 in every 10 PCs

Earlier this week we reported Windows 10 had -- according to anonymous sources -- been installed on over 200 million devices. Now a new report by research firm Net Applications gives us something more concrete: a PC usage increase from 9% in November to 9.96% in December, meaning Windows 10...

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2015 was the Revolution of Resolutions, but 2016 is even more exciting

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I've been wanting to do a larger article about displays for a while now but thought it would be better positioned at the end of the year to talk about all things monitors, resolutions, refresh rates and variable refresh rates technologies in NVIDIA's G-Sync and AMD's FreeSync.
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Samsung announces a new smart biometric processor for the mobile market

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced that it is addressing the growing trend of quantified health with an all-in-one advanced system logic chip for the health-oriented wearables market, the Bio-Processor. The Samsung Bio-Processor, now in mass production, is specifically designed to allow accelerated...

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