According to Kotaku, GOG platform (once Good Old Games) has just laid off a dozen employees, which was roughly 10% of its whole staff. Officially these layoffs are a part of company’s restructuring process that has been ongoing since October 2018. Unofficially the layoffs are caused by a decrease in GOG’s revenue, which in turn was caused by Epic Store taking over a significant chunk of the gaming platform market. GOG, just like Steam, only offers the producers 70% of income from sold games, while Epic Store offers them a whooping 88%. GOG was also never all that big to begin ...

Asus seemingly enjoys beind the oddball among the phone makers. They rarely release a truly popular smartphone, having to be content with medium to low sales, and their phones often have various issues. This, though, is often caused ot by their product’s low quality but by the fact that Asus takes risks, it uses unusual solutions or adds features that are new to the market. Asus’ quirkiness has showed once again during this year’s Mobile World Congress: when most companies do their best to have at least working prototypes ready for the show, Asus merely released leaflets ...

The SD Association has used this year’s Mobile World Congress to unveil microSD Express, the newest microSD card to enter the market. Express will tap the PCIe interface to reach a max data transfer rate of 985 MB/s, something that is possible thanks to the PCIe 3.1 and NVMe v1.3 specifications. There is a lot of technical mumbo-jumbo involved, so lets just concentrate on the plus sides of the device, namely increased transfer speed as well as decreased power consumption. The cards will supposedly be backward compatible, which means that they will work with older smartphones. ...

We have already heard that Oppo is having a foldable device in the works. What we heard was mostly gossip and some leaks. As it turns out now, Oppo not only has a working prototype of such device, the company is also going to officially present it during the Mobile World Congress 2019. We do not know when exacly (25th Feb – 1st March) will the foldable be presented: all the info that we have on it is a live picture shared online by Oppo’s vice CEO Brian Shen. People smarter than me notice how this device looks similiar to Huawei’s Mate X. It is largely because of how both ...

Apple is working on enhancing the availability of Apple Pay, but this is not the only way that the e-fruit wants to influence our finances in. According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple wants to bring its own credit card into the market at some point this year. This card, which Apple works on together with Goldman Sachs, is supposed to bring more clients to company’s Marcus internet bank. The card will work within Mastercard’s infrastructure.We will learn more in the coming ...

Razer’s mobile division is going through various changes. It has been confirmed that a number of Ryzer’s employees will be laid off, and others will be moved to projects other than Razer 3. The company is supposed to put much more effort into its mobile games division, leaving other projects underpowered, if not outright abandoned. There has been no official word on whether or not the work on Ryzer 3 smartphone has been cancelled but, judging by its predecessor’s low sales, I would not get my hopes ...

We have come a day and age where your shoes can be gimped by failed software. Nike’s Adapt BB smart sneakers are going through a small crisis due to a bug in their programming. Android users owning these shoes now say that the latest update causes the built-in motor to stop working; alternatively, their smartphones have issues synchronizing with either left or right shoe. So far there is no way to fix these problems – not even a hard reset (talk about rebooting) helps. Nike is, reportedly, ”actively working to resolve” the issue.Go easy on them. Imagine yourself ...

According to Xiaomi Redmi’s CEO, one Lu Weibing, Redmi Note 7 Pro will debut next week. This is not the most detailed release date ever, but it beats what info we had before – Redmi Note 7 Pro was first supposed to come out in the beginning of January and later its release date has been moved to ”after Mi 9”.So, what do we know about this smartphone? Quite a bit:– 6,3′ Full HD+ display,– Snapdragon 675 CPU, 8 cores,– 8GB RAM, 64/128GB flash space, microSD card slot,– Sony IMX586 main camera, 48mmpx + 5mpx, LED flash,– 13mpx selfie ...

Thank you, oh great one! Many people do not know this, but there is actually an option to turn off Facebook’s phone tracking. It is turned on by default, naturally, but after turning it off it not only stops FB from spying on you but also helps save a significant portion of battery’s life. Facebook must have noticed that more and more people started using this option, since the company now offers an intermediate solution – you can choose to allow FB to know your location but only when the FB mobile app is turned on. This would allow you to keep some of your privacy and ...

Denuvo has failed yet again. While everyone understands that this anti-piracy software can not protect any game forever, this time it failed to defend a game for even a week – and first week is very important to any video game’s sales. The latest victim of internet piracy is Metro Exodus, newest entry in the popular series based on a post-apocalypse Russian novels by Dmitry Glukhovsky. The game has been cracked yesterday – Denuvo was enough to protect it for full five days. Yay.Even though you can get Metro Exodus for free now, please, do not. Buy an original copy. You ...