Monthly Archives: September 2015

‘GTA 5’ Will Probably Never Get Story DLC

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There was a time when I actually believed that we were going to get single-player DLC for GTA 5. Sure, it always seemed like Rockstar was more interested in GTA Online, but they kept saying they were making more single player DLC, and, well, I believed them, for a time. But it’s been two years at this point, and it’s looking less and less likely. IGN had an interview with design director Imram Sarwar about the future of GTA Online, and he gave a classic non-answer that makes the possibility of story DLC for GTA 5 very unlikely:

“Right now our focus is on GTA Online which has exceeded our expectations. We currently have all key members of the team that launched Grand Theft Auto V focused on supporting GTA Online in every capacity. The community we’ve been able to foster is massive, growing each day and we have so many ideas that have yet to make it into the game. The evolution of GTA Online on these newer platforms is also an exciting prospect as the power of those systems is going to allow us to achieve even more.”

So, it’s not a no, but it’s more or less a no. I’m torn about this: on one hand, I’m not exactly excited to see what sort of story the team behind GTA 5 comes up with next. There was a lot to love about the world Rockstar built in its latest crime caper, but the story left me flat: just a bunch of annoying dudes and lame jokes, too enamored with its own notion of being “edgy” to get a decent plot going. It was better than GTA 4, but that’s not really saying too much. On the other hand, GTA 4 also gave us The Ballad of Gay Tony, which was better than the main plot in every way, and served to deepen the world of Liberty City in new and interesting ways. It was a bold idea for what a GTA game could be: not just a single experience, but a platform for new stories to be told. If Rockstar gave us something on that level for Los Santos, I’d be over the moon.

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HTC Desire 520 lands at Cricket tomorrow for $99.99

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Cricket has announced the HTC Desire 520 today. The mid-range smartphone will go on sale at the carrier as soon as tomorrow, and it will be priced at $99.99 without any long-term contract requirement. The phone will be exclusive to Cricket.

The Desire 520 was announced for the US by HTC back in July, and it sure took its sweet time actually getting to stores.

It comes with a 4.5-inch 480×854 touchscreen, an 8 MP rear camera with LED flash, a 2 MP front-facing camera, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of expandable storage, 4G LTE support, and a 2,000 mAh battery. It’s powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 210 chipset with a 1.1 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 CPU and Adreno 304 GPU. It runs Android 5.1 Lollipop with HTC’s Sense 7 UI on…

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Android 6.0 Marshmallow won’t have a dark theme

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It’s official, straight from a Google engineer: the upcoming Android 6.0 Marshmallow release will not come with a built-in dark theme.

Many people have been hoping to see a darkened version of the Material Design UI in the final Marshmallow release because an experimental dark theme was included in the Android M developer preview.

You did have to jump through some hoops in order to activate it, but as the screenshots above show, it did actually work. Unfortunately though it looks like Google has dropped any plans to make something like this part of Marshmallow.

So all that fans of stock Android and dark UIs can now do is hope that the search giant will reconsider when it comes to the next version of the OS. In fact, the dark theme “may be considered for future releases”, according to the same Google engineer mentioned above.

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Office 2016 estará disponible a partir del 22 de septiembre

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Buenas noticias las que nos llegan desde Redmond. Microsoft ha anunciado que Office 2016 estará disponible para descarga a partir del 22 de septiembre. Lo especial de esta versión es que se trata de la primera versión de Office desarrollada específic…

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5.7-inch Galaxy S7 caught in a benchmark rocking Snapdragon 820

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Just yesterday we saw an unknown Samsung device getting benchmarked sporting an Exynos 8890 chipset. The device in question was codenamed Lucky. According to a new report, this is in fact the codename for the Galaxy S7. Since 7 is considered a lucky number in many cultures, it’s pretty obvious why Samsung chose to name its next flagship “Project Lucky” while it’s in development.

In an interesting twist, the Lucky was caught in another benchmark database today, this time rocking Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 SoC. This is no surprise, as there have been rumors claiming Samsung is testing Qualcomm’s next top of the line chip and hasn’t yet decided whether to use it or not. Now it seems likely that the S820 will power at least certain versions of the Galaxy S7, probably the ones destined for the US (echoing what’s been going on for most of the Galaxy S line’s existence, except with the S6 this year).

The prototype that went through the AnTuTu benchmark today came with a 5.7-inch QHD touchscreen, a 16 MP rear camera, a 5 MP front snapper, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of internal storage. It ran Android 5.1.1 Lollipop at the time.

So this is the bigger of the two rumored iterations for Samsung’s next flagship. Qualcomm’s chipset managed to beat out the Exynos 7420 as well as the Snapdragon 810 in single-threaded runs and in the 3D test. However, overall the Exynos 7420 still managed to come out on top of both of Qualcomm’s contenders. Obviously though the Snapdragon 820 is still in development, so don’t take these results too seriously yet. Just for fun, let’s mention that Lucky’s AnTuTu score was 65,775.

The final version of the Galaxy S7 may have a 20 MP ISOCELL camera instead of the 16 MP unit the prototype boasts. The S7 should keep the ultrafast UFS 2.0 storage of its predecessor, but Samsung is working on getting that to work with microSD cards. Currently the UFS 2.0 memory controller isn’t compatible with expandable storage. Yet the Korean company might fix that by the time the S7 arrives on the market. It’s definitely not a given, though, so don’t get your hopes up that the Galaxy S7 will have microSD card support.

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