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- What Microsoft's $7.5B purchase of Bethesda parent ZeniMax means for Xbox Series X - CNET
- Xbox Series X Vs. PS5 Console Comparison - GameSpot
- iOS 14: How to customize your home screen widgets with Smart Stacks and Siri Suggestions - 9to5Mac
| What Microsoft's $7.5B purchase of Bethesda parent ZeniMax means for Xbox Series X - CNET Posted: 22 Sep 2020 06:58 AM PDT  Microsoft's making more investments in its Xbox gaming franchise. James Martin/CNETMicrosoft's Xbox team significantly expanded its list of game development studios on Monday, announcing the purchase of ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion in cash. The entertainment company owns several industry-leading game developers, including Bethesda Softworks, the maker of the post-apocalyptic Fallout games and the fantasy series The Elder Scrolls. It also owns Id Software, known for its Doom, Rage and Wolfenstein shooting game franchises. The move grows the number of in-house Xbox game development studios to 23, up from 15 earlier, giving it control of some of the game industry's most popular franchises. Microsoft also plans to run Bethesda as its own division, with leadership and structure intact. "As a proven game developer and publisher, Bethesda has seen success across every category of games, and together, we will further our ambition to empower the more than three billion gamers worldwide," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a statement. The two companies pitched the deal as an expansion of an already close partnership that's spanned decades. "The big winners today are our fans," ZeniMax CEO Robert Altman said in a statement. "Our games can only get better." Microsoft's move comes weeks before the November launch of its next big video game consoles, the $500 Xbox Series X and $300 Xbox Series S, both promising sharper visuals and faster gameplay than their predecessors. The new game consoles will be competing against Sony's $500 PlayStation 5 and $400 discless PlayStation 5 Digital Edition, also coming out in November. See also: Microsoft's CEO, Xbox head talk acquisitions, Games Pass and TikTok  Watch this: Microsoft just bought Bethesda for $7.5B: Here's a breakdown... 3:37 Microsoft's ZeniMax acquisition also comes after its failed bid for a stake in TikTok, the China-based social network that's attracted more than 2 billion downloads worldwide and more than 100 million users in the US. The tech giant spent at least the past month negotiating to own some part of the app in an effort to satisfy national security concerns raised by President Donald Trump, who'd threatened to ban the app from US app stores if it wasn't bought by a US company. For Microsoft, its biggest ever video game purchase isn't just about bulking up its slate of game studios. By purchasing an established company with a string of hits going back decades, Microsoft is beyond focusing on the space war series Halo and racing game series Forza as its marquee titles. It also insulates Microsoft from fallout over having to delay highly anticipated launch title Halo Infinite from this holiday to 2021, leaving it without a key launch title to compete against Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales on the PS5. "Content is just the incredible ingredient to our platform that we continue to invest in," Spencer said in that same interview, adding that Bethesda's catalog of hit games will be added to Microsoft's Xbox Games Pass service, which now boasts more than 15 million subscribers. ZeniMax, he said, "doubles the size of our creative organization." |
| Xbox Series X Vs. PS5 Console Comparison - GameSpot Posted: 22 Sep 2020 06:00 AM PDT [unable to retrieve full-text content]
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| iOS 14: How to customize your home screen widgets with Smart Stacks and Siri Suggestions - 9to5Mac Posted: 21 Sep 2020 12:46 PM PDT  Widgets have instantly proven to be the most popular iOS 14 feature, allowing users to give their home screens an added layer of personalization. iOS 14 includes two built-in widget options that aim to use Siri intelligence to help further personalize your iPhone home screen widgets. Here's how it works. Siri Suggestions widgetsIf you're the type of person that relies heavily on swiping down to access Siri app suggestions in Spotlight search, the Siri Suggestions widget is an excellent consideration for your home screen widget. The Siri Suggestions widget will surface relevant actions "based on your usage patterns." There are two different Siri Suggestions widgets:
My personal favorite here is the App Suggestions widget, which will present a rotating selection of app icons based on what Siri intelligence thinks you might be looking for. For example, if you commonly log your lunch in MyFitnessPal around the same time every day, the App Suggestions widget will present the MyFitnessPal icon around that time of day. In fact, once you add the App Suggestions widget to your home screen, the app icons will look just like any other app icons. It's a pretty nifty use of Siri intelligence, and one of the cooler widget implementations by Apple. To find these widgets, long-press on your iOS 14 home screen to enter jiggle mode, look for the "+" in the upper-left corner, then look for "Siri Suggestions" in the list of widgets. Smart StacksOne of the Apple widget types in iOS 14 is a Smart Stack, which intelligently stacks multiple widgets together based on factors like time of day and Siri intelligence. By default, you can pick a prebuilt Smart Stack from the widget picker, but you can also create custom stacks of widgets. This means you can pick different widgets and stack them on top of one another, then swipe between them. To do this, simply add one widget to your home screen, then go back to the Widget Gallery and choose another and drag it on top of the first widget. You can stack many different widgets together, then swipe through them directly from the home screen. Once you add a Smart Stack widget to your iOS 14 home screen, you can you can long-press on it, choose "Edit Widget" and enable or disable the "Smart Rotate" feature. This feature will automatically rotate through the widgets in the stack based on time of day and Siri intelligence. Find more third-party apps with iOS 14 features such as home screen widgets, App Clips, and more in our full roundup. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More. |
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