More video game news, and more bad video news at that. Remember the rumoured open-world Star Wars game where we were supposed to play as a bounty hunter and have lots of fun adventuring across the stars? No? Well, never mind now; the project has been cancelled. Shutdown follows the shutdown of the game’s developer, Visceral Studio, the one responsible for the awesome (well, mostly) Dead Space trilogy. The game went through a bit of a turmoil ever since its inception; at first it was supposed to be a linear action-adventure similiar to Uncharted, then, after EA bought out Visceral, the ...

Fortnite, one of the currently most popular video games, is in trouble. Analytics from the Check Point company have recently exposed a major flaw in the game’s protection. Without delving into the technical details, it allows hackers a relatively easy access to the players’ accounts, giving them the possibility of stealing their V-bucks currency. Ouch… Epic Games is already at work to fix the issue. In the meantime, players are encouraged to use the two-factor authentication security; it should be enough to keep their accounts ...

Various kinds of ”pranks” and challenges are very popular these days. You surely know what am I talking about: Spider-Dog, plank challenge, Bird Box challenge et cetera. Some of them are scary, others are funny (or both), but many of them have one unfortunate thing in common: they are dangerous. The best and latest example of this danger is the aforementioned Bird Box challenge. Based on the recent movie starring Sandra Bullock, it has people trying to live through the day blindfolded, just as the movie characters are forced to. A few days ago one not very bright 17 years old ...

Pwn2Own Vancouver is an annual contest organized by the Trend Micro data security company. Its goal is to gather a large number of cybersecurity specialists and have them compete against one another in finding out and fixing holes in devices and programs’, well, security. This year is the first one when a motorization category has been added to the contest, represented by Elon Musk’s Tesla. This year’s award is up to 250 thousand dollars as welll as a free Tesla Model 3 ...

Good news for those of you who keep walking and hunting for those cute bunches of pixels that are Pokemon. Fresh new event has just begun in the world of Pokemon Go:”We’re kicking off the new year with a brand-new celebration! Starting on January 15 at 1 p.m. PST and going until January 29 at 1 p.m. PST, Pokémon originally discovered in the Hoenn region will be appearing more frequently in the wild. Plus, if you evolve Shroomish into Breloom during the event, it will know the exclusive move Grass Knot!”Event offers a good bunch of new features. Other than what has been ...

Rumour is that Xiaomi Mi 9 will charge faster than its predecessor even normally, but if normal charging speed will not be enough for someone then it will also support a quick charge. According to what Lei Jun, CEO of the company, have said on Weibo, their new smartphone will be powered with even 32W chargers. Whether or not this turns out to be true, we shall see around the 2nd quarter of the year. Tweet Vote on HN ...

China’s Chang’e-4 robot continues its mission to scour the Earth’s satellite, kicking dust and taking pictures as it does. The machine currently traverses the SPA basin, geological formation on the dark side of the moon and the one depicted in the pictures online. Lunar rover have met some difficulties in its journey so far – it had to survive lunar noon which ramps up the surface’s temperature to 200 degrees, for one – but so far the Chinese ingenuity has seen it through it all. ...

Anthem is causing quite a mixed feelings among the players. On the one hand it is a new Bioware game, fancy and shiny co-op looting shooter with Iron Man-esque flying suits; on the other hand, well, it is Bioware, an (ex?) kind of cRPGs, now making a co-op lootbox shooter. To those of you who do not feel good about this, I have at least some good news: Bioware says that Anthem will have no paid loot boxes. There will be microtransactions, yes, but these will be cosmetic only, with no p2w. Michael Gamble, Bioware’s lead designer, says that adding paid lootboxes would be ...

That is right: Micosoft will cut the Windows 7 support on January 13th 2020. Windows 7 is currently the 2nd most popular PC operating system in the world; removing it will both help speed up the Windows 10 updates but will also boost new PC sales. After all, modern OS requires a modern computer, eh heh heh… Tweet Vote on HN ...

Due to unknown circumstances, Lenovo Z5 Pro GT will not become available for pre-orders today. Phone’s store release has been moved to January 29th, and its pre-orders should start in ”a few days”. As for the phone itself, it is a Plus version of the device that will be released in the middle of the March 2019. Its price in China is 2698 yuan, which roughly equals 399 USD. Its specification is as follows:– 6,39′ display, Super AMOLED, Full HD+,– Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 CPU, Adreno 640 GPU,– 6, 8 or 12 GB RAM, 128, 256 or 512 GB storage space,– ...