‘The Order: 1886′ review: Tale as old as time
This is the most difficult game review I’ve ever had to write. Not because I lost a few of my fingers or because I don’t want to upset anyone, but because I’m not entirely sure what I’m reviewing.
The Order: 1886 is more of an interactive television series than it is a video game. This is what I had come to assume after previewing the game multiple times before launch, but I was still taken aback by just how much of this game didn’t require any input on my part. Entire chapters would whisk by without me ever having to pick up my controller.
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Has Jony Ive found a new way to abdicate his responsibility as a designer?
I don’t mean to pick on Jony Ive but… actually, yes, I do mean to pick on Jony Ive. Earlier this week I wrote about Ive’s utterly ridiculous criticism of Motorola in which he slammed the company for letting its customers customize their Moto X phones through the Moto Maker service. This program was apparently so repulsive to Sir Jony’s sensibilities that he went so far as to accuse Motorola of “abdicating” their responsibilities as designers. Now a new report from Cult of Mac shows that Ive’s criticism is even more boneheaded than I originally thought.
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PS4 expected to continue crushing the Xbox One through 2019
There are plenty of great reasons to buy an Xbox One. I still stand by my assessment at the end of 2014 in which I decided that the Xbox One has evolved into a better console than the PlayStation 4 in many regards, but unsurprisingly, the market isn’t showing a very strong reaction to my articles.
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Cool app alert: This great free iPhone widget adds a full phone app to Notification Center!
Apple’s introduction of widget support in iOS 8 came as a surprise to some people, but it still wasn’t the true widget support many power iPhone users had been clamoring for. Instead of allowing developers to build widgets that might provide zero-touch access to information on the home screen, Apple added a widget section to the Today tab in Notification Center. It’s a compromise that added widgets to iOS without harming battery life, though iOS widgets aren’t quite as useful as widgets on other platforms like Android.
Every once in a while, however, we come across a very cool widget that makes iOS 8 seem like new all over again.
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Wait, the 18-karat gold Apple Watch could make Apple how much money?
Earlier this week, our resident Boy Genius did some back-of-the-envelope calculations about how much money Apple could make with the upcoming Apple Watch, with a particular focus on the high-end 18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition. Now well-connected Apple blogger John Gruber has done some estimates of his own and he writes that Apple stands to make $20 billion a year on the Edition version of the Apple Watch if the company manages to sell 1 million copies of it per quarter at an average sales price of $5,000 each.
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Best list of the week, HANDS DOWN: 7 awesome paid iPhone apps that are free for a limited time (huge $66 value!)
Yesterday’s list of eight paid iPhone and iPad apps was a solid one indeed, and several of them are still free downloads if you hurry over to that post. Today, however, we have what is hands down our best list of the week. It only has seven apps on it, but they’re all terrific and normally they would cost you a combined $66 to download.
For a short time, however, each and every one can be had for free.
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HBO just released two deleted scenes from ‘Game of Thrones’ – watch them right here
On Wednesday, Game of Thrones fans got some huge news that everyone is still talking about. According to George R.R. Martin, author of the books on which the popular HBO show is based, the show’s creators plan to kill off characters who did not die in the book series. No one is safe, and now fans who read the books will have to be on the lookout for huge twists and turns around every corner.
To keep the hype going ahead of season 5’s April 12th premiere, HBO has released two deleted scenes that have never been seen before.
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Apple Watch advertising push begins with a supermodel — see the Apple Watch’s first magazine cover right here!
With the Apple Watch set to hit store shelves this April, Apple’s U.S.-based advertising push is about to kick into high gear. Now, seeing as how the Apple Watch is as much about personal fashion and health as it is about consumer technology, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Apple has tapped supermodel (and former Victoria’s Secret Angel) Candice Swanepoel to wear the highly anticipated device on the March cover of SELF magazine.
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Google’s reimagination of email is finally available for iPad
This past October, Google released a new email app that had all the makings of a winner. Called Inbox, the app offered a somewhat fresh new take on email management that looked to help users combat email fatigue. Inbox only notifies users when important emails arrive, never when things like newsletters or promotional emails hit the Inbox, and it also includes snoozes and other features from rival offerings like Dropbox’s Mailbox app.
Now, a new update issued by Google on Thursday adds one important new feature that many users were sorely missing.
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More proof Apple is working on car battery technology
A new lawsuit against Apple seemingly lends even more credence to the somewhat incredulous rumor that the company is working on developing an electric car. Originally spotted by 9to5Mac, a company called A123 Systems is suing Apple for hiring five key Ph.D scientists who were researching advanced battery technologies for them. According to the suit, the employees are in violation of non-compete agreements which precludes them from engaging in substantially similar battery research for other companies.
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