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Star Wars: Squadrons gets October 2 release date — watch the trailer
Star Wars: Squadrons is a new space-combat game from Electronic Arts and its EA Motive studio. The companies debuted the first details about the upcoming vehicular shooter today. EA also confirmed a release date of October 2 for Star Wars: Squadrons on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. You can preorder the game now for […]
What to expect at the Made by Google Pixel 4 event on October 15
The Pixel 4 is just around the corner. Google hasn’t been shy about the fact it has another phone coming, and it doesn’t take a genius to read the writing on the wall after Google announced a Made by Google hardware event on October 15. The Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL will be […]
8 Video Games You’ll Want To Buy in October
September’s games list was unusually large, with 14 new releases. October’s list is shorter, but it’s just as sweet, and the Nintendo Switch gets a lot of love. PCMag reviews products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. October marks the start of the holiday (shopping) […]
How to watch the Made by Google Pixel 4 event on October 15
Julian Chokkattu/Digital Trends The Google Pixel 4 is on the way and it’s expected to land on October 15 at a Google event beamed live from New York City. We’ve covered what we’re expecting to see at Made by Google 2019, and it’s unlikely the Pixel 4 with the Motion Sense gesture controls and multi-lens […]
Get no-scope headshots on the go when Call of Duty: Mobile launches October 1
[embedded content] If you fancy yourself a Call of Duty expert, then you’ll need to perfect your shot on a new platform. Call of Duty: Mobile packs all of the action of its big siblings into Android and iOS devices, and you’ll be able to play it for free on October 1. Launching for both […]
Google’s next flagship smartphone launches October 15
Google’s invitation. Google The Pixel 4 prototype from Relab. ReLab The front of the Pixel 4. ReLab The bottom has one of the stereo speakers (the other is the earpiece) and a USB-C port. No headphone jack. ReLab Google’s new diagram of the Pixel 4. FaceID and Soli technology are in there. Google Google has […]
Destiny 2 moves its PC home from Battle.net to Steam on October 1
Bungie announced today that Destiny 2 will be making its PC move from Battle.net to Steam on October 1 The studio noted that the transition would happen back in January, when it announced that it was separating from publisher Activision Blizzard to be the sole company in charge of Destiny. Battle.net is a PC games […]
China sets 40-city national 5G rollout for October 1
Less than a month after China Unicom moved up its seven-city initial launch of 5G services to May, the Chinese government has decided to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the country’s founding by officially launching 5G on a nationwide scale. The launch will coordinate three leading state-backed carriers to bring commercial 5G service to 40 Chinese […]
The Great Google Hangouts Shutdown begins October 2019
Enlarge Google previously announced that its most popular messaging app, Google Hangouts, would be shutting down. In a post today on the GSuite Updates blog, Google detailed what the Hangouts shutdown will look like, and the company shared some of its plan to transition Hangouts users to “Hangouts Chat,” a separate enterprise Slack clone. First, […]
Google will retire classic Hangouts for G Suite customers in October
Google announced in March 2017 that it would split Hangouts, its cross-platform messaging service, into two core apps — Hangouts Chat, a Slack-like tool for teams, and Hangouts Meet, a Skype-like videoconferencing application — and that both enterprise G Suite users and consumers would be migrated from classic Hangouts sometime this year. Today, it revealed a […]
Windows 10 October 2018 Update is at last being pushed automatically
Enlarge / Who doesn’t love some new Windows? Peter Bright / Flickr The ill-fated Windows 10 October 2018 Update has hitherto been offered only to those Windows users that manually sought it, either by using the dedicated upgrade and media creation tools or by manually checking for update in Windows Update. Three months after its […]
Windows 10 October 2018 Update is back, this time without deleting your data
Enlarge / This message, shown during Windows upgrades, is going to be salt in the wound. Just over a month since its initial release, Microsoft is making the Windows 10 October 2018 Update widely available today. The update was withdrawn shortly after its initial release due to the discovery of a bug causing data loss. […]
PlayStation rides roughshod over other gaming brands for October TV ad spend
PlayStation has been spending big on marketing, and yet for October, it upped its TV advertising budget for October, spending an estimated $ 28 million. Meanwhile, Nintendo takes a distant second, and Ubisoft, King, and Riot Games round out the ranking. GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and […]
Windows 10 October 2018 Update still not released, running out of October
Enlarge / Who doesn’t love some new Windows? Peter Bright / Flickr Microsoft is making yet more fixes to Windows 10 build 17763, the build that has been blessed as the Windows 10 October 2018 Update. The update was initially published on the second Tuesday of the month, but within a few days, Microsoft had […]