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2K favorites BioShock, Borderlands and XCOM 2 are headed to the Nintendo Switch

TechSpot News | March 26, 2020, 5:09 a.m. | Original

Might as well buy digital: A word of caution if you’re interested in picking up a physical retail version – they’ll include significant portions that need to be downloaded. For example, only the opening acts of each BioShock game will be loaded onto the physical cartridge. Later game contents and add-ons will still need to be downloaded. The same holds true for the other two collections as well.

Publisher 2K on Thursday as part of a surprise Nintendo Direct Mini broadcast announced that three of its most

Epic Games moves into publishing, signs up Remedy, Playdead, and Gen Design

TechSpot News | March 26, 2020, 4:29 a.m. | Original

What just happened? Not content with challenging Steam in the world of digital storefronts, Fortnite creator Epic Games has become a multiplatform publisher. The company announced that its new project, Epic Games Publishing, already boasts three big development partners: Remedy Entertainment, Playdead, and Gen Design.

Remedy already has a relationship with Epic; the company’s multiple award-winning Control remains an exclusive on the Epic Games Store until August. The Finnish developer was also behind Quantum Break, Alan Wake, and Max Payne/Max Payne

Apple reportedly considering delaying iPhone 12 launch

TechSpot News | March 26, 2020, 4:04 a.m. | Original

In context: As countries worldwide are shutting down their economies in an effort to stop the spread of the Coronavirus and prevent medical systems from failing, Apple is faced with a situation where people are less worried about owning the latest iPhone and the supply chain is struggling to return to normal operation, so the iPhone 12 may just arrive later than planned.

It was only a week ago that industry insiders were still confident about Apple's ability to deliver the next iPhone in the September timeframe. The thinking was that since

Groupon boots CEO and COO amid global pandemic

TechSpot News | March 26, 2020, 3:38 a.m. | Original

Editor's take: Daily deals provider Groupon recently announced that Rich Williams is no longer serving as chief executive officer. Furthermore, Steve Krenzer has also stepped down as chief operating officer effective immediately. It may not seem like the best idea to change leadership in the middle of a global pandemic but with virtually everyone hurting, perhaps it is better to rip the band-aid off and absorb the sting now?

Details of the respective decisions weren’t provided although Groupon said that both will continue to be employed by the

Folding@Home exceeds 1.5 ExaFLOPS in the battle against Covid-19

TechSpot News | March 26, 2020, 2:54 a.m. | Original

Why it matters: Folding@home, a project in which volunteers lend their spare compute power to study the coronavirus and diseases such as cancer, has exceed 1.5 ExaFLOPS of performance. With one ExaFLOP equivalent to a billion billion operations, the network now boasts 1,500,000,000,000,000,000 floating point operations per second, making it around ten times faster than the world’s fastest supercomputer.

We reported only last

Coronavirus has decimated ticketing exchanges like StubHub

TechSpot News | March 26, 2020, 2:28 a.m. | Original

The big picture: Few industries are immune to the devastation brought about by the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak but some are being hit particularly hard. The entertainment category is one such sector as sports fans, music lovers and conference attendees alike are adjusting to a spring that is void of what they love the most. For ticket exchange employees, the situation is far more grim as it is impacting their ability to put food on the table and pay the bills.

With virtually every spectator sport, concert and comedy show in the US having

Apple's App Store rules prevent game streaming services from working on iOS

TechSpot News | March 26, 2020, 12:20 a.m. | Original

Why it matters: Apple has set up its App Store in a way that makes it very easy for its apps and services to succeed while putting high barriers of entry for the competition. iPhone and iPad users who want to use a game streaming service like Google Stadia or GeForce Now won't be able to unless Apple changes the rules of its app marketplace.

There are over 1 billion users that

Customers will have to wait for Apple stores to reopen before collecting their repairs

TechSpot News | March 25, 2020, 11:44 p.m. | Original

Why it matters: Apple closing all of its stores was bad news for those with devices in for repair, but it gets worse: customers who never picked up their items in time will have to wait until the stores reopen to retrieve them.

As the number of new conoranvirus cases dropped in China, Apple earlier this month announced that it would be reopening all 42 of its stores within the country. But with infections spreading rapidly across the rest of the world and nations getting put on lockdown, Apple decided to close

Source code for AMD's upcoming graphics products has been swiped

TechSpot News | March 25, 2020, 11:03 p.m. | Original

Why it matters: Tech companies hate seeing their latest projects leak early, but it's an unfortunate reality in this fast-moving age of instant information and unprecedented security breaches. AMD learned that the hard way recently after a hacker got her hands on the source code for some of AMD's upcoming graphics products.

AMD announced this data breach earlier today, claiming that it was first notified of the incident back in December. The company says the hacker in question reached out to them directly, but the individual -

Man tweets video of him licking Walmart products, is arrested on terrorist charges

TechSpot News | March 25, 2020, 10:15 p.m. | Original

Facepalm: In what looks like a case of cosmic karma, a man who tweeted of video of himself licking products at a Walmart and saying, “Who’s scared of the coronavirus” has been arrested for “making a terrorist threat.”

The Missouri man, identified as Cody Lee Pfister, 26, of Warrenton, is seen running his tongue along a row of personal hygiene products in the clip. A caption reads, “I’m a nasty moths f****er,” and

Why it matters: Apple closing all of its stores was bad news for those with devices in for repair, but it gets worse: customers who never picked up their items in time will have to wait until the stores reopen to retrieve them.

Facepalm: In what looks like a case of cosmic karma, a man who tweeted of video of himself licking products at a Walmart and saying, “Who’s scared of the coronavirus” has been arrested for “making a terrorist threat.”

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