Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

With direct lit LEDs and a 60Hz refresh rate, this Toshiba isn't just good for streaming, it will also keep up with modern game systems and look good while doing it. It's got 512GB of storage — more than enough for a small library of content. Get Deal Why we like it Presidents' Day is a great time to innovate your home's sound.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The original Game Boy from 1989 was an iconic handheld console but, as anyone who owned one will tell you, it required a steady stream of batteries to keep running. It doesn’t have sound for one thing, and its LCD screen is absolutely tiny. The amount of time it can stay on for reportedly varies by game.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Sony is planning to create an Xbox Game Pass-like subscription service, according to Bloomberg. The company is also “putting resources into expanding its efforts in cloud gaming,” Bloomberg reported, perhaps to keep up with efforts like Nvidia’s RTX 3080 tier of GeForce Now and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X upgrade for xCloud.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Google on Thursday announced family sharing for its Stadia cloud gaming service , bringing one of the more consumer-friendly features of digital game marketplaces to its platform. That way, you only need to buy one copy of a game for a parent and child or two siblings to both play it separately with separate save data.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 16, 2021

As one might expect for a retro gaming device, AnalogueOS features a minimal, pixel-art style design that’s meant to get you into games as easily as possible. But Analogue is taking its goal of making the ultimate retro gaming device seriously. There’s also playlist support, too, for creating custom lists of favorites.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Microsoft’s cloud gaming service can’t compete with Stadia right now, but it’s getting there The first time you boot up an Xbox One game on an Android phone can be surreal. The best part: I didn’t even have to unpack the Xbox One where I originally played the game. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The best games you can play on the Vive, Rift, or Quest 2 With the advent of platforms like the Oculus Quest 2, VR has never been more accessible. If you’re wondering if a game will work with your particular headset, we’ve outlined that at the bottom of each entry. Image: Beat Games. Beat Saber. Beat Saber. The Climb 2.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

From the first experience of surround sound to seeing your hands function and your body moving through a digital world, nonprofit marketers and fundraisers absolutely need to explore this next iteration of the internet. At this time, most apps are gaming-related and inexpensive. Get comfortable with your new Horizon Home.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

You can save big on Halo: The Master Chief Collection , gaming headsets, and accessories at GameStop. GameStop’s Black Friday sales have begun, kicking off huge savings on digital and physical copies of games, gaming keyboards, and headsets for their lowest prices ever. Promotions.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Last week, as I loaded into one of Stadia’s most high-profile releases to date — Ubisoft’s Nordic-themed Assassin’s Creed Valhalla — on my 13-inch MacBook Pro with a DualShock 4 controller, I was reminded of how much of a technical marvel cloud gaming truly is. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2021

Playing games from this expandable storage may not have the “exact same performance” provided by the PS5’s internal drive, even if read speeds exceed 5,500MB/s. The Friends tab in Game Base is also being updated with better management options, and the ability to see how many friends are online. Aside from M.2

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Digital Trends

MARCH 30, 2022

TikTok has introduced a new editing tool called Library that will let users add GIPHY Clips, which are essentially GIFs with sound, to their short videos.

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The Verge

MARCH 23, 2021

Qualcomm is reportedly working on an Android-powered, handheld gaming console that’s similar to a Nintendo Switch, according to Android Police and XDA ’s editor-in-chief Mishaal Rahman. But it also has a library of great games that only it can play, which is its biggest draw. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

JULY 23, 2021

Starting Friday, Facebook is bringing its nascent cloud gaming service to iPhones and iPads through a web app people will be able to add to their homescreens like a native app. The site will let you play simple web games like Solitaire and match-threes and stream more graphically intensive titles like racing games.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Amazon has just taken the wraps off its long-rumored Amazon Luna , meaning the company is officially jumping into the cloud gaming ring — one that has become increasingly crowded over the past year. The only other channel announced so far is one that’ll house exclusively Ubisoft games. The great cable bundling of video games has begun.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 10, 2025

As a bonus, your purchase also comes with a one-month membership for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which is great news for gamers looking to test out the massive Game Pass library on a brand new TV.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

You can likely now try Google’s Stadia cloud gaming platform — as of today, it’s an app you can download for your television running webOS 5.0 surround sound to LG TVs as of today. or webOS 6.0 read: likely 2020 models or later) in any of the 22 countries that Google covers. You’ll find it in the LG app store on your TV.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Many of these games play well on Series S, too The latest generation of Xbox consoles recently celebrated their one-year birthday, though like the PS5, your chances of easily buying one aren’t so great (the $300 Series S is far easier to find in stock than the $500 Series X is). We’ve pulled together a handful of great games.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Use the Foundation Directory at the library or a university to find foundations out of state. It’s easier than it sounds. Host a recurring or one-time game night with friends and make each round a split prize with the organization. Zoom game night: Players pitch in $10 and host a virtual game night.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2021

Today is “MAR10 Day,” and although it is not Mario’s “birthday” (which is September 13th), this day usually has some of the best deals on games published by Nintendo. Nintendo rarely discounts its first-party games, so if you recently purchased a Switch and want to stock up on some games, today is a good day to expand your game library.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

When we moved from the NES to the Super Nintendo, it wasn’t hard to spot the difference between 8- and 16-bit Super Mario games. It was just as clear when games evolved to support 3D worlds and, later, HD graphics. It’s not just big, it’s historically big , one of the largest video game consoles ever built. Games you can feel.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

And it’s not just playlists; Soundtrack also features libraries of music tuned to specific moods that they’re calling Stations. Everything you see on Soundtrack is cleared for use on air, whether that’s tracks from playlists or deep cuts in the music library from which it’s sourcing tracks.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

hours for a gaming session. The problem isn’t the sound quality; the Quest 2 has reasonable audio, although I find it a little thin. It’s that the sound is audible to anybody in the same room, and none of my headphones work well with the headset. Battery life is similar to the Quest, clocking between two and 2.5

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The Verge

MAY 30, 2020

Nevertheless, there are plenty of places where you can save on tech, video games, and more. A soundbar that can act as a streaming device sounds too good to be true, and my colleague Jon Porter found in his review that JBL’s execution has more than a few faults. We’ve put those below, and we’ll be back next week with more deals.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Borat clips, for example, or Squid Game sounds. Zooming out, Voicy’s stated mission is to do for sound clips what Giphy has done for GIFs. Other usage metrics they share include that users have created some 145,000 sound clips so far, with an average of 10k more being added per month. Dank audio memes anyone?

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

That’s according to the official YouTube teaser you can watch above, which leaves us with many, many questions, primarily 1) what does the game actually look like, 2) is it next-gen, and 3) how does one properly punctuate the game’s name? (Is The game will be formally unveiled on August 26th. Probably not.).

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

There are also broader metaverse-related taxonomies like one from game designer Raph Koster , who draws a distinction between “online worlds,” “multiverses,” and “metaverses.” It sounds like some of these definitions conflict with each other. But wait, now Ready Player One isn’t a metaverse and virtual worlds don’t have to be 3D?

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2015

I was a second-year in college on my way to the library at the University of Chicago; she was back in Miami, where our company is based. In fact, I would argue that our mother-son relationship is a competitive advantage in the harsh startup game. This moment confirmed that our vision for sports journalism wasn’t crazy after all.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

He was just 15 when, in a bid to attract more avians, he began planting several hundred native seedlings beside his house to create a 2-acre thorn forest a term he prefers over the more common thornscrub , which sounds to him like something to get rid of. Ive already heard 15 species since we walked in, Dale said. to life again.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. I'm at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! Staged a major exhibition celebrating the spectrum of what is in the library, public programs partners with The Moth.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

Applying to an elite middle school sounds like a stressful experience, and I’m sure COVID-19 doesn’t help. Harker let me go through the game myself, alongside a friend of mine who’s an experienced escape room artist. The sixth grade game, called “The Annual Picnic,” was designed to evaluate how a student thinks on their feet.

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The Verge

APRIL 23, 2022

Meta held its 2022 games showcase this past week, lifting the curtain on several new virtual reality games in the works for the Quest 2 headset. In celebration of the event, Meta has slashed prices on several VR games that see discounts only on a few occasions each year. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

The ZX Spectrum (nicknamed “Speccy”) had a rubber keyboard and a color display, and eventually a library of thousands of games. Sinclair’s ZX personal computers were priced lower than the then-popular Commodore 64, and well-liked by consumers in the UK. The first model had 16KB of RAM and sold for £125 (roughly $170).

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The Verge

DECEMBER 19, 2020

These originally sold for $230, and this is a great deal if you value excellent sound quality in addition to being able to cancel out some sound. We cover them frequently because they’re very much worth the investment based on their superb sound quality, comfort, and battery life. Gaming deals.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

for a whole year of the Game Pass-esque subscription service, rather than $159.99. Get Deal If you're into gaming at all, it's kind of becoming a necessity to have some sort of subscription service to supplement your hobby. That's just $99.99 at PlayStation $159.99 Save $60.00 Only $99.99 for a year rather than $159.99? We'll take it.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Aside from an unconventional design, my colleagues, Chris Welch and Becca Farsace, pointed out in their reviews that the Galaxy Buds Live also produce a powerful sound and come with a lengthy battery life. Microsoft’s Xbox Series X / S gaming consoles arrive on November 10th. Usually, a three-month subscription costs $45.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Armed with an extensive library of viewing apps, the Fire TV stick remains a great way to expand your viewing options, with a bare minimum of setup. In his review , Verge staffer Cameron Faulkner called the smart speaker a great sounding upgrade over the last-gen Home Mini. Read our review.

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