Audio player loading… Xbox Games with Gold is about to get a lot better. Or a lot worse, depending on how much you like Xbox 360 games. Both Xbox Series X |S and Xbox One consoles are backwards compatible with older Xbox games. As such, users with an Xbox Live Gold subscription have been able to download Xbox 360 games each month as part of the Games with Gold monthly lineup. But that's about to change. A user on the r/Games subreddit posted an official Microsoft email (opens in new tab) that confirms Games with Gold's Xbox 360 support is ending this October. The email states that Xbox Live Gold users (or those who get its benefits as part of the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription tier) will stop seeing Xbox 360 games on the monthly service from October 1. The reason being that the company has "reached the limit of our ability to bring Xbox 360 games to the catalog." It's not all bad news, though. In the same email, Microsoft confirmed that … [Read more...] about Xbox Games with Gold is ditching Xbox 360 support
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I almost ruined my Apple Watch. Here’s how to make sure you don’t
Audio player loading… I felt it happen; it was an almost sickening sensation. My beloved Apple Watch Series 7, squeezed like a slice of salami between a block of wood and my wrist that was supporting a nearly 75-pound package, meeting with a bit of grit that was dragging across it. My arms, suddenly taking on Herculean strength, quickly lifted the heavy package up to relieve the pressure, but it was too late. The sand or grit that was covering the wood frame had carved out a tiny, awful canyon across the once nearly pristine face of my Apple Watch Series 7. I blame myself. First of all, it's important to acknowledge that this is an aluminum Apple Watch Series 7 . Not stainless steel or titanium. This matters because the crystal is not made of the sapphire you might find on a high-end Breitling watch. Instead, it has Ion-X glass, which is supposed to approximate some form of sturdy Gorilla Glass. That watch glass, which is protecting the wearable's large, … [Read more...] about I almost ruined my Apple Watch. Here’s how to make sure you don’t
Stranger Things 4 is demolishing Netflix records – but can it eclipse Squid Game?
Audio player loading… Stranger Things season 4 has officially entered the Netflix billionaire's club. Following the release of season 4’s final two episodes on July 1, the latest entry in the Duffer Brothers’ acclaimed sci-fi show has become the biggest English-language Netflix series of all time and the first to rack up over one billion viewing hours in its first 28 days of release. As per the streamer’s most recent popularity rankings (opens in new tab) , Stranger Things season 4 accrued almost twice as big an audience as the second-most popular English-language Netflix series, Bridgerton season 2 (which earned 656 million viewing hours in its opening month), and has so far registered around half a billion more viewing hours than Stranger Things season 3 managed in the same period. Stranger Things season 4 is now second only to Squid Game on the list of the streamer’s most popular TV series, period, and although episodes 1-7 will no longer … [Read more...] about Stranger Things 4 is demolishing Netflix records – but can it eclipse Squid Game?
Prime Video just canceled a starry sci-fi drama after only one season
Audio player loading… Prime Video has canceled Night Sky, a sci-fi drama which starred J.K. Simmons and Sissy Spacek, after just one season. Deadline (opens in new tab) reports that the show, which dropped all eight episodes of its first season on May 20, will not get a second season. The report states that the show's sizeable production costs and failure to land a large enough audience have led Prime Video 's executives to call time on the project. Night Sky told the story of Spacek's Irene and Simmons' Franklin, a couple who discovered many years previously that there is a chamber buried in their backyard, one which inexplicably leads to a strange, deserted planet. They've carefully guarded their secret ever since, but when Chai Hanson's Jude, a charismatic young man, worms his way into their lives, it's much harder to keep the secret. The show's cancelation, so soon after the premiere, may come as a bit of a surprise, especially as initial reactions to … [Read more...] about Prime Video just canceled a starry sci-fi drama after only one season