Third-person shooter: In-game photography is becoming an avant-garde artform
Digital Trends
JULY 14, 2020
Beauty is everywhere, including video games.
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Digital Trends
JULY 14, 2020
Beauty is everywhere, including video games.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JULY 2, 2020
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The Verge
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Sony is continuing its refresh of its smartphone line to focus on photography and video with the new Xperia 5 II. Sony’s focus on photography means that it prefers to label them with their 35mm focal length equivalents: 16mm, 24mm, and 70mm. It’s cheaper, for one thing, going on sale on September 29th for $949.
Engadget
MARCH 7, 2025
Thanks to the solar cells on the casing, the laptop can soak up enough energy from the sun in 20 minutes to play an hour of videos. We've seen reporting of these, like Android Police's coverage of a "Flex Gaming" handheld. Xiaomi teamed up with Leica to make a smartphone that leans heavily into photography. As little as 0.3
The Verge
APRIL 23, 2021
The flagship Super Potato store (of the eight total in Japan, according to its Twitter ) is nondescript, yet its shelves are covered wall-to-wall in rare yet reasonably priced games and consoles. But thankfully, going there in person isn’t the only way you can peep the store’s vast collection of retro Japanese video games.
The Verge
JULY 17, 2020
It’s not the best-looking gaming laptop or the fastest out there, but starting at $879.99, its AMD Ryzen processor and RX 5600M graphics chip make for a great tag team. Plenty of gaming laptops can do that, but this one stands out solely because it won’t cost you an extravagant amount of cash to get one.
The Verge
OCTOBER 20, 2020
It’s starting with a library of 50 games and support for Mac, PC, Fire TV, and, in a first for a major streaming service, iOS devices — because Amazon has a web app that circumvents Apple’s controversial App Store rules. We’ve spent a couple of hours streaming games with Luna. Luna starts at $5.99 Luna’s iOS web app. Performance.
The Verge
OCTOBER 27, 2020
It’s great for Apple Arcade games that support controllers. And, for popular games like COD: Mobile that don’t have controller support switched on from the start, Backbone curates visual tutorials that appear before it launches to walk you through the steps to turn it on in the game’s settings.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
APRIL 18, 2011
This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. An online database of third-party social media apps and software, there are thousands of free tools listed in categories ranging from photos and videos to music and games.
The Verge
OCTOBER 16, 2020
A ridiculous, glorious revival of a not-quite-classic system The Game Gear Micro is portable console as performance art. Coming off the back of the excellent Genesis Mini , Sega had two choices when it came to reviving the Game Gear, its contemporaneous 8-bit handheld system. Or it could do something else. But it does do the job well.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 24, 2011
This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. An online database of third-party social media apps and software, there are thousands of free tools listed in categories ranging from photos and videos to music and games.
The Verge
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
A worthy RTX 3080 competitor for gaming As a teenager, I used to love AMD. AMD is promising it will match or outperform the RTX 3080 at both 4K and 1440p gaming. AMD is back in the game. In most of the games I’ve tested, the 6800 XT outperforms the RTX 3080 at 1440p. In other games, the 6800 XT excels at 4K.
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
The share button is the main meaningful change, which will simplify the experience of uploading screenshots and video clips. The 1TB expansion cards are a little larger than an SD card and can store Xbox Series X games on them to increase the overall storage in a system. Photography by Tom Warren / The Verge.
The Verge
DECEMBER 28, 2020
We’ve rounded up our favorite and most-used games, apps, and entertainment. Check out our app picks for iPhones , Android phones , Windows PCs , and M1-equipped Macs ; our favorite mobile games from Apple Arcade and Google Play Pass ; and our top choices for gaming PCs , the PS5 , Xbox One and Series X / S , Nintendo Switch , and VR.
The Verge
JULY 1, 2020
The official Raspberry Pi Camera guide is free online and filled with code for programing different functions like stop-motion photography or setting up a security camera. But I quickly realized that, for an amateur like myself, copying and pasting code into a terminal was a game of chance, and one in which I had very little luck.
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
It’s hard to pull specific clues from Apple’s static event invite, though the darkening sky might suggest we’ll see improved night mode photography. A video from Greg Joswiak , Apple’s SVP of worldwide marketing, has a bit more to analyze. And perhaps the glowing Apple logo is hinting toward an always-on lock screen for the iPhone.
The Verge
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Or human-versus-AI board game tournaments.) Andrew Jackson and Lee Ha-jin discuss AlphaGo’s first game against top Go player Ke Jie at the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen, China in 2017. From left to right: Game Freak’s Junichi Masuda, The Pokémon Company’s Tsunekazu Ishihara, Niantic’s John Hanke, and Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto.
The Verge
JULY 8, 2021
A look at the most useful settings for Video mode, including Part or All, Game or Movie, and Brightness and Saturation. There are interactive modes that make the strips respond to music and video, and static modes built around your preferred color patterns and scenes. Video mode can be set to Part or All.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MARCH 8, 2013
Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. Bravo enables brands to capture user-generated videos directly from the Web. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. Animoto :: animoto.com.
The Verge
JANUARY 21, 2021
Almost a great gaming gadget The $199 GTW 270 Hybrid earbuds from audio company EPOS are, to my knowledge, the first truly wireless earbuds made for gaming — but the buds themselves aren’t the biggest selling point. It just feels new to experience this freedom with a gaming headset. They support Bluetooth 5.1
The Verge
MARCH 19, 2021
At $30, it’s still hard to recommend OtterBox, the company best known for its ruggedized cases, has developed a $30 clip that can attach your phone to an Xbox controller for playing games. Called the Mobile Gaming Clip, it’s part of a growing trend of accessories for playing cloud-based console games right on your phone.
The Verge
JANUARY 26, 2021
A top-notch convertible with a pricey sidecar If I saw the Asus ROG Flow X13 in the wild, I would never guess it was a gaming laptop. A 13-inch gaming laptop with those proportions isn’t unheard of, but it’s certainly unusual. The secret is that the real gaming hardware is on the outside. inch 2-in-1 convertible that’s just 2.9
The Verge
DECEMBER 27, 2021
Armies, aliens, automobiles, the legendary mascot of the Xbox, and more Getting a new gaming PC is a bit like opening Pandora’s Box when it comes to deciding what to play. So if you got yourself a new PC for the holiday, or even earlier, this list of excellent games released this year is a primer on what to consider. Halo Infinite.
The Verge
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Like the X-T4, Fujifilm is pitching the X-S10 as a hybrid camera, meaning it should appeal to both still photographers and video shooters. megapixel X-Trans IV CMOS sensor, X-Processor 4, and autofocus system as the X-T3 and X-T4, but it doesn’t quite match those models in terms of video capabilities. It has the same 26.1-megapixel
The Verge
OCTOBER 15, 2020
As someone who plays primarily on PC, the lower frame rates and input lag on current-generation consoles are enough to put me off playing a lot of games on an Xbox One or PS4. That was until I started playing games on the Xbox Series X three weeks ago. Cool and quiet hardware. Let’s start with the hardware.
The Verge
JULY 3, 2020
Photography by Dan Seifert / The Verge. You can use the Ananta’s big screen as a pop-up gaming rig with a Nintendo Switch or other console. Still, it’s contrasty and vibrant for watching video and playing games. Photography by Dan Seifert / The Verge. I just wouldn’t use it for color-critical creative work.
The Verge
JULY 24, 2020
It’s faster than the IdeaPad Gaming 3, and as a result, it’s not as budget friendly Many companies use Intel or AMD’s yearly leap in processor generations as an opportunity to completely reinvent their laptops or desktops. The overall package is similar to Lenovo’s $989 IdeaPad Gaming 3 that I recently reviewed.
The Verge
JULY 24, 2021
A viable option for streamers and gamers on the go The ShadowCast from Genki is a dongle-size video capture card that might provide all that some gamers and streamers need. It’s $45, a relatively low price for a no-frills device that can get your console games onto your PC. The lag while gaming is another issue.
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
Dual-screen gaming doesn’t come cheap Most of the time, if you’re reading a review of a dual-screen laptop, you probably only care about one feature: the two screens. It’s the first gaming laptop Asus has attempted with the dual-screen setup. But whether it’s well-suited to gaming is another question. My unit has a 15.6-inch
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Not so much Earlier this year, my colleague Cameron Faulkner reviewed the Razer Kishi , a smartly designed game controller for Android phones created in collaboration with Gamevice. It solves many of the biggest pain points of mobile game controllers: they can be awkward to carry, attach, detach, and pair with your device.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 13, 2021
Brand-building is no longer a one-hit game, but an exercise in repetition: It may take four or five times for a user to see your startup’s name or logo to recognize, remember or Google it. Mmhmm, the virtual camera app that adds TV-presenter flair to video meetings, launched with a viral video that hit over 1.5 million views.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Its quad-core CPU and low-powered RTX 3070 are great for efficiency but not intensive tasks If it’s a thin gaming laptop you seek, Asus makes several, including last year’s excellent ROG Zephyrus G14 and the intriguing ROG Flow x13 2-in-1 that we recently reviewed. I’ll explain why in a bit. Thunderbolt 4 doesn’t support wattage over 100W.)
Bloomerang
SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
Thinking of shopping, maybe before the end of the year, all kinds of videos and stuff that you can check out. And that can be written, videos, photos, audio, there’s a lot of ways to tell a story and it’s okay to take the same story and retell it in all of these ways. Maybe you need to make a video about that story.
The Verge
AUGUST 29, 2020
A gaming laptop that doesn’t cut too many corners The Razer Blade Pro 17 is far from an Ultrabook. Like its smaller counterparts in the Blade line, the Pro 17 is chic and professional, lacking the bells and whistles you might expect to see on a large gaming laptop. Even among gaming laptops, that’s… well, not great.)
The Verge
JULY 17, 2020
I always split the screen between two or three open windows, whether I was working in Chrome, editing multiple photos, or Slacking while streaming video, and I was quite comfortable. The 2.25mm, 720p camera supports Windows Hello facial recognition, which works just fine, but I was grainy and washed out on video calls.
The Verge
MARCH 6, 2021
And yes, it has a webcam, unlike some of the gaming laptops we’ve reviewed recently. Even with older software, it performs about as well as I expected for gaming, given this RTX 3070’s specific specs. But that’s not to say it isn’t capable for gaming. This RTX 3070 performs nearly as well with QHD gaming as the 3080.
The Verge
JULY 15, 2020
Nick Rochowski Photography. So far, though, Nvidia has dominated the market, as its GPUs, originally designed to accelerate graphics rendering in video games, have proved a perfect fit for AI processing. Graphcore’s new 7nm GC200 IPU is the world’s most complex, with 59.4 billion transistors. The processor has 59.4
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
We saw the titanic Ryzen 9 4900HS rocket Asus’ ROG Zephyrus G14 to the top of the portable gaming market. The center of the keyboard only got hot under heavy loads like gaming, and the bottom of the chassis was occasionally warm but never uncomfortable. You can also play real games on this thing.
The Verge
NOVEMBER 6, 2021
The gallery and subsequent party / unveiling were separated by a 4-hour gap, during which I ate a burrito and watched YouTube videos in The Verge ’s office.). It’s crazy, bro, we live in a f **g video game.”. It’s crazy, bro, we live in a f **g video game,” he shouted at me. He couldn’t get the app to work either.
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Photos, video, games, and apps take up a bunch of space, and you’ll hit your limit quite fast. If your kid is in “Zoom School,” know that Zoom, Meet, or any other group video calling app on the iPad is frustrating. Unless that app is the frontmost full-screen app, your video cuts out. iPad things include using Zoom.
The Verge
JULY 13, 2020
But if you hope to use this phone intensively for either gaming or shooting photos and videos, plan on topping up in the late afternoon. Instead of fighting a losing computational photography battle against other smartphones, Sony is taking the fight back to its home turf: the Alpha camera line. It starts with a gigantic 1/1.7-inch
The Verge
JULY 10, 2020
Even more impressive are AMD’s integrated Radeon graphics, which can handle some gaming. The system did not prove as well-optimized for video editing, unfortunately. So if you’ll need to be working with Premiere Pro for video on the go, don’t buy this (at least until Adobe fixes that problem). Battery life is also good.
Mashable Tech
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
A fun card game. Be the king or queen of your next game night by asking for What Do You Meme? — a Cards Against Humanity-style game, but with memes. The game goes for $29.99. A very personal card game. This "game" (it's really more of an activity) is the latter. The watches are $10.80. Prices vary.
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