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AT&T reportedly backs away from selling Warner Bros. Interactive

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Sponsored Links Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment For the time being, AT&T has reportedly decided against selling its Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment gaming division to another company. According to Bloomberg, the telecom concluded the unit was too valuable to ditch, even if a sale would have helped the company with its $165 billion debt load. When news of the potential sale first broke, CNBC reported the sale of the division could have netted AT&T as much as $4 billion. Several prominent video game publishers were reportedly interested, including Microsoft, Take-Two, EA and Activision Blizzard. Bloomberg reports two

B&H Photo knocks $250 off Lenovo’s high-powered Legion 7 laptop

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Sponsored Links Lenovo / B&H Photo All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. If you buy something through one of the links on this page, we may earn an affiliate commission. While the Razer Blade 15 with NVIDIA’s RTX 2060 GPU is $400 off today, you may be itching for a gaming laptop with a slightly better graphics card. If that’s the case, you can grab a Lenovo Legion 7 machine with an NVIDIA RTX 2070 GPU for $1,599 right now

‘Pokémon Go’ will stop working on old Android and iOS devices in October

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Sponsored Links Niantic An upcoming Pokémon Go update for October could mean you won’t be able to access the game anymore if you’re using an older iPhone or Android device. Niantic has announced that the game will stop supporting devices running Android 5, iOS 10 and iOS 11. For Apple owners, in particular, the game will no longer work on the iPhone 5s and the iPhone 6 even if you install iOS 12 on it. In an upcoming update to Pokémon GO in October, we will end support for Android

Lenovo’s Legion Slim 7i gaming laptop weighs less than four pounds

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Sponsored Links Lenovo As part of its holiday lineup, Lenovo is releasing a new Legion Slim 7i gaming laptop. According to the company, this is the slimmest chassis of any Legion laptop. The Slim 7i weighs in just under four pounds (1.86 kilograms). Like the Legion 5i and 7i laptops, it uses NVIDIA’s Advanced Optimus graphics switching and up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 with Max-Q.Thanks to that Advanced Optimus tech, the Legion Slim 7i can switch back and forth between lower power consumption in less-intensive moments and increased power

Rockstar previews major updates for Red Dead Online and GTA V Online

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Sponsored Links Rockstar Rockstar plans to release major updates for the online components of both Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption II this summer. The content stream starts with a "massive" update for Red Dead Online that players will be able to download on July 28th.  Rockstar says the patch adds a new frontier pursuit, role and outlaw pass. It will also include a variety of features and bug fixes fans have been asking for, according to the studio. At an unspecified date later this summer, GTA Online players will have something to

Epic Games CEO speaks out against Apple, Google app store ‘monopoly’

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Sponsored Links Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash Tim Sweeney, CEO of Fortnite developer Epic Games, criticized Apple and Google for having an “absolute monopoly” on app stores in a Friday interview with CNBC. There aren’t many viable options for distributing mobile software outside the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, and Sweeney chides both for taking a 30 percent fee from in-app purchases.Epic Games launched the Epic Games Store in late 2018 for Windows and Mac computers, and only charges other publishers a 12 percent fee on in-app purchases.

Epic Games Store summer sale discounts ‘Disco Elysium,’ ‘Control’ and more

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Sponsored Links Remedy Entertainment Epic’s PC game store has kicked off a summer sale of its own — take that, Steam — and it includes a few noteworthy discounts on titles you might not have picked up yet. A game like Remedy’s shooter Control is available for 50 percent off at $30, while indie favorite Disco Elysium is on sale for the same price, which is 25 percent lower than it’s usual cost.Jedi: Fallen Order and Borderlands 3 are other recent games now available for half-off at $30 each, while

Microsoft’s Xbox Summer Game Fest features 70 playable demos

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Time Stamp: July 22, 2020 3:29 AM - Modified On: July 22, 2020 - Published By:
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Sponsored Links Xbox The summer Xbox event Microsoft announced earlier this month is now live, and it’ll give you access to over 70 playable demos from dozens of developers. You’ll be able to access and play demos until July 27th, though the company warns that most of them offer an early look at gameplay, sort of like “show floor demos” — the final versions of the game could offer an entirely different experience.Similar to Valve’s Steam Game Festival that serves to highlight indie developers, the event gives you the chance

You can buy ‘Microsoft Flight Simulator’ on 10 DVDs if you want

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Sponsored Links Aerosoft When Microsoft Flight Simulator comes out on August 18th, fans of the long-running series in Europe will have the chance to buy a physical copy of the upcoming game. Usually, that wouldn't be a big deal, but Flight Simulator will come on a whopping 10 discs. The package is coming courtesy of a publisher named Aerosoft that struck a deal with Microsoft to distribute the game in the continent. The 10 dual-layered DVDs will contain approximately 90GB of game assets, including all the textures and models of the planes featured in