Everything Sony Told Us About the Future of PlayStation and other top stories.

• Everything Sony Told Us About the Future of PlayStation

  

  Pull your gaze from Nintendo's bedazzling Switch for a moment and consider Sony's now widespread PlayStation 4. Console sales have in general outperformed the most buoyant analyst and pundit prognostications. Not merely because of Nintendo's overnight dark horse, or its scarce as hen's teeth NES Classic. Sony's PlayStation 4 is having some belt-notching moments of its own.Sony now says its flagship games platform has sold-through—meaning to buyers and not just stores—close to 60 million units wo..

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• Microsoft Offers Closer Look at Project Scorpio Dev Kit

  

  Microsoft Offers Closer Look at Project Scorpio Dev Kit Developer feedback helped create a stackable development kit with 24GB of RAM, a front-mounted display, and five programmable buttons. In order for a new games console to have launch day games, developers need access to the console hardware well in advance. These development kits typically take the form of PCs, which then iteratively get updated until they match the hardware and form factor of the final console. Project Scorpio ..

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• Apple updates MacBook line with new Intel processors

  

  Apple has announced updates to its entire MacBook line at WWDC, giving its laptops more powerful specifications in the form of the latest Intel chips. As had been previously rumored, last year's MacBook Pros are getting Intel's Kaby Lake processors, as ...

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• HP gets in on the external GPU hype with a pretty, large box

  

  Alongside the announcement of a bunch of gaming computers today, HP is introducing a series of accessories so that it can try to sell gamers the entire package. That includes two displays, a gaming mouse, a mechanical keyboard, and an external GPU ...

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• Apple Offers External GPU Enclosure to Developers As Valve Opens Door to VR Mac Gaming

  

  Apple announced a new version of its Metal graphics technology during Monday's keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference. As part of macOS High Sierra, Metal 2 will officially support external GPUs, allowing any Mac with a Thunderbolt 3 port to benefit from graphics hardware powerful enough to run demanding virtual reality applications and games. The native VR support in macOS High Sierra also opens up the possibility for Mac owners to hook up VR headsets to their computer for the first ..

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• Google fixes random Pixel freezing with latest update

  

  Google's Community Manager posted the fix to the user community, but didn't sound 100 percent confident that it would solve the problem entirely. "Freezing and general device performance issues can be caused by many different things, so please continue to update this post with your individual experiences after accepting the June security OTA," he said.That said, most users seem to be experiencing the same type of problem. "My Pixel XL 128 GB becomes unresponsive randomly," said one. "Doesn't on..

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• WWDC 2017 keynote: Taking it all in

  

  In the movie The Princess Bride, after a series of exciting events, swordmaster Inigo Montoya is asked to explain what has happened since the film’s hero was rendered unconscious.“Let me explain,” he says. “No, there is too much—let me sum up.”When it comes to explaining the WWDC 2017 keynote, I feel a lot like Inigo Montoya. This was a packed two-plus hours that would probably run three-plus hours in the Director’s Cut edition. There were enough Easter eggs in the “additional f..

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• Monument Valley 2 Revealed: Ustwo Developers, Apple CEO Tim Cook Discuss Surprise Sequel

  

  David Phelan Philip Schiller shows the new App Store with Monument Valley 2 front and centre. Oh, at last, I can tell you about this. Journalists are essentially gossips, we love to share news, faster than the next big-mouth can spill it. Back in February I visited ustwo games in London, makers of the remarkable Monument Valley, a dazzlingly beautiful puzzle game where you must guide Princess Ida through a series of impossible buildings and landscapes. But I was told that the new Monum..

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• WWDC 2017: Apple Announces HomePod Speaker to Rival Amazon's Echo

  

  “You don’t have to know what any of that is; just know that it sounds incredible,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s marketing chief, who added that HomePod would be priced at $349.Although Apple appears to be trying to make up ground on Amazon and Google, the primary casualty may be Sonos. That company offers a wireless multispeaker system that allows users to listen to music throughout the home, similar to HomePod’s ability to chain together speakers. The big question, though, is whether the intell..

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• watchOS 4 Bringing New Watch Faces, Apple News, Updated Music App & Gym Equipment Support

  

  Apple has announced new features for watchOS 4, including major updates coming to Workouts, Activity, Music, all-new watch faces, and "GymKit," which provides a seamless connection between Apple Watch and gym equipment. New Activity upgrades will deliver intelligent coaching and tailored encouragement to each user, with Apple Watch notifying users every morning when they're close to earning an Achievement. Suggestions on how to improve to match the previous day's activity levels will also be ..

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