Fans of full-blooded cRPG games can start getting excited now. Studio Obsidian, creators of the buggy but otherwise wonderful Fallout: New Vegas, are nearing the end of their work on yet another futuristic role playing game. The Outer Worlds has just received a 30 minutes long gameplay video. The video shows us everything that a true role playing game should have – customized skills and equipment, dialogue and world interaction options depending on our characteristics and decision making that alters the course of the game’s story. The game will be released on October 25th, and ...

The asking price for this somewhat original smartphone is $499-$549. No specific release date is known so far. Both 64GB and 128GB variants are available, as well as two colour variants: Midnight Black and Twilight Silver. Device is unlocked and compatible with with GSM carriers, e.g. T-Mobile and AT&T but not Verizon. Phone’s specs include 6.4-inch, FHD+ LCD display, Snapdragon 855 CPU, 6-8 GB RAM, 64-128 GB flash space, Sony IMX 586 48mpx x 13mpx main camera that can be flipped in a 90-degree angle and 5000mAh battery with Quick Charge ...

If you like classic games, this should be a real treat for you. Diablo 1, the precursor of the most famous hack and slash series in the world, is now available for free as a browser game. Shareware version of it can be accessed via this website. This version, though, is limited to only one character out of three as well as only the two first levels of the dungeon. If you already own the full version of the game, though, you can access it as a browser game as well – all you need to do is drop the original DIABDAT.MPQ file onto the loaded browser page, and the complete Diablo I ...

Apple has recently had its third fiscal quarter earnings call. In it, the company’s CEO Tim Cook confirmed that Apple Credit Card will roll out in the US in next month. Sadly, it seems that Australia will have to wait for its own rollout; Gizmodo website has reached out to Apple regarding the topic, and all the Apple spokesperson has to said was, quote, ”We have not made any announcements about Apple Card being available outside of the U.S”. Gizmodo believes that Australian release of the service largely depends on its success in the ...

Chinese smartphone producer Meizu is going through hard times. The company has already fired 30% of its employees, and will let go more in the near future – the marketing division is rumoured to go next. Meizu has also closed many of its stores; the exact number is unknown but is rumoured to be the grand majority of company’s overall shops in China. If that was not enough, Li Nan, one of the founding fathers of Meizu, has recently left the firm in search of greener pastures. Ouch…Meizu was never a large company, and the smartphone market nowadays belongs mostly to the big ...

The Australian Commonwealth Bank has recently announced that every train, light rail or ferry passenger paying with credit card, debit card or mobile phone will have access to the same travel caps, transfer discounts and travel rewards as Opal card users. This means that non-Opal that heavily rely on public transport will now pay less, since they cannot be charged more than $16.10 – after reaching this threshold you are basically traveling for free. The change is active across the NSW transport network starting today. It will be extended over Sydney bus network ”in the coming ...

When entering Apple Accessories online page, one will notice a new banner at the bottom of the page. Said banner informs that Apple Music is now offering only a month of free trial instead of the three months that it used to. There is no official word about whether this is a mistake or a sudden change in Apple Music policy – there were no rumours concerning such a change. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Asus’ gaming smartphone is now available for pre-ordering in China, which means that its price has finally become officially known. ROG Phone 2’s price in the land of great walls and soulless regimes is 3,499 yuan for the 8GB RAM + 128GB ROM variant and 5,999 yuan for the 12GB RAM + 128GB ROM one. This is the price of the Tencent-affiliated model, the one that will probably be released globally; China-exclusive variants are more costly (5999 and 7,999 yuan). When translated into western currency, Tencent version of the device will cost between 509 and 873 dollars. Sadly, we do ...

The update has been released alongside the MIUI 10.4.1.0 one. It weights 1.6 gigabyte, so better make sure your smartphone is powered up before you download it. If the update isn’t available on your smartphone yet, do not worry: it should reach your country any moment now. Tweet Vote on HN ...

In a case of real flashback, a spiritual successor of famous Another World adventure platformer, Flashback, is getting a mobile remake. This old gem has you play Conrad, a man with no memory who must navigate futuristic setting of human colony in Titan in order to solve a mystery of alien’s plan to conquer Earth. Challenging gameplay requires the player to use both their wits and their trigger finger in order to complete the campaign, which offers an immersive narrative the kind of which is hard to find anymore in video games.Remake has been made by a somewhat untested studio called ...