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Red Dead Redemption is coming to PC according to PlayStation Network store listing

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:02:02 +0000

Mentions of a Red Dead Redemption PC port has been found again, and this time it's from a PlayStation Network store listing, of all places. Rockstar may be preparing to make an official announcement. Read more...

God of War Ragnarök receives official PC system requirements ahead of September launch

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:02:01 +0000

PC gamers only have to wait a month before they can jump into God of War Ragnarök. Today, developer Santa Monica Studio unveiled just what kind of rig PC gamers will need to run the game. Read more...

God of War Ragnarök announced for PC with enhancements, launches in September

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 30 May 2024 23:02:01 +0000

Sony's next port to the PC platform has been confirmed to be God of War Ragnarök. The highly acclaimed entry by Santa Monica Studio is coming with uncapped FPS and 4K support to the new platform. Read more...

Rockstar's original Red Dead Redemption may finally be coming to PC

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Mon, 13 May 2024 17:16:01 +0000

Rockstar Games 2010-hit Red Dead Redemption may finally be getting a PC port after all these years. Strings have been found on the Rockstar Launcher promoting the classic title's PC version. Read more...

Report says Sony will announce God of War Ragnarök for PC very soon

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Fri, 10 May 2024 15:26:01 +0000

Sony may be about to announce God of War Ragnarök for the PC platform according to a report from a highly reliable leaker. The action-adventure game released less than two years ago on PlayStation. Read more...

Ghost of Tsushima is coming to PC on May 16, exclusive features detailed

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:16:01 +0000

The next PC port coming in from PlayStation Studios has turned out to be Ghost of Tsushima. The Sucker Punch Productions-developed adventure is being ported to the new platform by Nixxes. Read more...

Horizon Forbidden West PC system requirements land ahead of March 21 launch

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 14:24:10 +0000

Guerrilla and Nixxes have announced the official system requirements for the upcoming PC port of Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition. Even portable PCs should be able to run the game. Read more...

Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition hits PC on March 21

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:00:01 +0000

Sony and Nixxes Software have announced March 21 as the date Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition will be landing on PC. The port will include the base campaign and the Burning Shores expansion. Read more...

Sony is reportedly bringing Horizon Forbidden West to PC very soon

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:26:02 +0000

Sony's next PlayStation port over to the PC platform may be Guerrilla Games' hit open-world adventure Horizon Forbidden West. A complete edition is reportedly coming to PlayStation 5 and PC very soon. Read more...

The original Red Dead Redemption is being ported to PlayStation 4 and Switch

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 14:57:38 +0000

Rockstar Games has officially announced that its 2010-released open-world adventure Red Dead Redemption is coming to two more platforms as straight ports, squashing recent remake rumors. Read more...

EU votes in favor of law that requires consumer tech to feature USB Type-C by 2024

Karthik Mudaliar — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 12:30:01 +0000

The European Union has passed the law to use USB Type-C as the single charging solution for nearly all portable consumer tech devices after 2024 to avoid having a negative impact on the environment. Read more...

Sci-fi colony builder sim 'RimWorld' hits Xbox and PlayStation in July

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:44:01 +0000

RimWorld is finally coming to consoles. Ludeon Studios has partnered with Double Eleven to bring the massively popular sci-fi colony building simulator to Xbox and PlayStation consoles next month. Read more...

Sony shares sales numbers of PC ports, expects major increases in revenue

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 26 May 2022 07:10:01 +0000

Sony's PC publishing division has been a very successful endeavor for the company. With ports selling millions of copies, Sony expects exponential growth in the coming financial year. Read more...

At EA it can take a whole day to change 3 lines of code

Dean Howell — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:20:01 +0000

According to a blogpost by former EA developer Adam Berg, different teams take very different approaches to development with one team in particular being especially slow to progress. Read more...

Apple is investigating an issue related to 'pink squares' with the M1 Mac mini

Usama Jawad — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 07:40:02 +0000

According to internal documents, Apple is actively investigating an issue where "pink squares" appear on the display when the M1 Mac mini is connected to it via HDMI rather than Thunderbolt. Read more...

Destiny 2 will not launch on Steam as confirmed by developer for the second time

Dreyer Smit — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 16:46:01 +0000

Recently some in-game currency for the first game in the Destiny franchise made its way to the Steam store, fuelling speculation that the Blizzard deal wasn't as exclusive as once thought. Read more...

The HTC HD2 gets a taste of Android Nougat... sort of

Justin Luna — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 06:12:01 +0000

A developer has successfully ported Google's Android 7.0 Nougat onto the six-year old HTC HD2 smartphone, which originally ran Microsoft's obsolete OS, Windows Mobile 6.5. Read more...

Developer shows off Android 6.0 Marshmallow running on the Lumia 525

Justin Luna — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 07:38:01 +0000

While the Lumia 525 has already been abandoned by Microsoft and Nokia, this did not stop a developer from experimenting on it. He was able to port Android 6.0 Marshmallow on the three-year old device. Read more...

Windows Store gets 'universal' Instagram app

Paul Hill — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 17:28:01 +0000

A UWP version of Instagram has been released onto the Windows Store. It appears that the app is a port from iOS meaning that it has most of the features that the iOS version has. Read more...

HTC HD2 refuses to die, gets a taste of Android Marshmallow

Shreyas Gandhe — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 15:22:01 +0000

Even after six years since its launch, the HTC HD2 is getting ports of the latest versions of a variety of operating systems, and this time it's Android Marshmallow that's hitting the device. Read more...

iOS and Android app-porting to Windows will have limitations

Chris Schroeder — Tue, 12 May 2015 19:20:01 +0000

Perhaps one of the coolest features of Windows 10 is the ability to plug in your phone to a display and use it like a desktop PC, but iOS and Android ported apps will face limitations. Read more...

Android 5.0 Lollipop gets ported to the mighty HTC HD2

Andy Weir — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:44:01 +0000

Originally launched with Windows Mobile 6.5 in 2009, the HTC HD2 has seen ports of Windows RT, Firefox OS and more - and now an unofficial Android 5.0 Lollipop ROM is also in development. Read more...

Open WebOS 1.0 ported to Galaxy Nexus (video)

Vlad Dudau — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:51:18 +0000

Open WebOS got its 1.0 release today and while HP was showing it off on a PC another group ported the operating system to the Galaxy Nexus. It's not ready for full time use but it's getting there. Read more...

iPad prototype with two dock ports sold on eBay

John Callaham — Tue, 29 May 2012 07:32:37 +0000

A prototype for the first iPad from Apple, made with two dock ports along with older software, was put on sale on eBay and was sold earlier this morning for $10,200. Read more...

Doom gets ported to a calculator

Brad Sams — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:29:41 +0000

Doom, one of the classic first person shooters, has been ported to a calculator. While many may remember playing drugwars on their TI-83+, kids today can now play Doom on their TI-Nspire calculator. The port... Read more...

Android 3.0 Honeycomb ported to Google's own Nexus One

Oliver Haslam — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:11:04 +0000

We're all giddy as school girls about Android's first official tablet release, 3.0 Honeycomb, but we're sure not so giddy about having to spend yet more money on more hardware. If only there was a... Read more...

Apple, please stop 'thinking different'

Brad Sams — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:07:26 +0000

When Apple unveiled its latest Macbook and Macbook Pro the world rejoiced. Steve Jobs and his gang at Apple are excellent at product presentation and sales. One thing that was somewhat overlooked at... Read more...

Supreme Commander to Receive Xbox 360 Port

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:55:45 +0000

The Infinite War has raged for over 1,000 years and soon will make its way to a videogame console for the first time. Chris Taylor's Gas Powered Games, Corp., co-developer Hellbent Games and Aspyr Media... Read more...

Microsoft Nurtures Linux Silverlight Port

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:38:15 +0000

When Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie unveiled Silverlight at MIX07, he vowed that it would be a cross-platform technology. It appears as if the software giant is making good on that pledge: SD Times... Read more...

Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo Sued Over Joystick Port Patent

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:53:15 +0000

As the latest lawsuit to be leveled against video game hardware manufacturers, Richardson, Texas based Fenner Investments has filed suit against Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo for infringing on the company's patent number 6,297,751 for a... Read more...

Sony's 20GB PS3 to feature HDMI port

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:55:10 +0000

The port, which had been previously announced as standard on the stepped-up 60GB model, allows games to be played in full high-definition video and audio. The company said its decision was made in part... Read more...

Microsoft, Adobe Apps Expected to Be Most Difficult to Port

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:33:59 +0000

At Apple's WWDC this week, the company said that applications written as Carbon applications, such as Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop, would be the most difficult to port to Intel-based Macs. Apple also encouraged developers... Read more...

KB Alert: 298062 'Game Port may not be available'

Steven Parker — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:21:03 +0000

Just got this in the mail from kbAlertz. The game port devices may not be upgraded after you upgrade from Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, or Windows Millennium Edition to Windows... Read more...

Mortal Kombat: Deception Cube port confirmed

Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:21:31 +0000

In news that makes a change from the usual "X has cancelled Y for GameCube," Midway Games has confirmed that it plans to release Mortal Kombat: Deception on GameCube as well as PS2 and Xbox,... Read more...

Port Royale 2 English demo

Tue, 17 Aug 2004 03:58:34 +0000

A playable english demo of Port Royale 2 has been released just a few minths after the German Demo. Port Royale 2 is a trading management strategy sequel with 3D battle engline by Ascaron. The... Read more...

Gran Turismo 4 Mobile to be PS2 port

Mon, 09 Aug 2004 13:24:27 +0000

Series director says hardware similarities between the handheld and console make a straight port of the racer the logical move. PSP has announced that Gran Turismo 4 Mobile will be a port... Read more...

DS Port Hints Dropped by Square Enix

Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:30:31 +0000

Purchasers of FFI & II on GBA questioned about which classic Square Enix games they'd like to see on Nintendo's dual-screen system Square Enix looks to be considering porting over one or... Read more...

Nintendo to drop Digital AV port from GameCube

Marcel Klum — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:50:03 +0000

The rarely-used Digital AV port on the back of the GameCube console is to be removed from future revisions of the hardware in a move designed to save production costs, Nintendo has confirmed today. ... Read more...

IBM to dump Netscape 7 port for Microsoft IE

Tom Warren — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:54:52 +0000

Right hand doesn't know what left hand's doing. In another case of the all too common "right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing" syndrome, so widespread in large corporations... Read more...

Review : Linksys ProConnect Integrated 2 Port KVM Switch

Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:57:28 +0000

Good review on some neat linksys gear... "Having more than one PC is no longer considered unusual. A primary machine sitting next to a file/mail/web/ftp server is common in many an enthusiast's home.... Read more...