Beyond Flesh and Blood is an ambitious third person shooter with horror over tones, slated for a full release on Xbox One, PS4, PC and Linux in Q4 2015.

Pixel Bomb Games were established in 2011 and are based in Manchester, which also serves as the game’s setting – which as far as I know, makes it a world first for one of the UK’s largest cities.

A new report says that American Express will announce a partnership sometime later this week that will allow those credit card owners to pay for items by using a future product from Jawbone.

The report from The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, says that this payment setup for the future Jawbone wearable device will work with retailers that have NFC-based check-out terminals in place This sounds similar to how Apple Pay will work with the upcoming Apple Watch.

No other details about how this partnership between American Express and Jawbone will work have been revealed. It’s also not known if Jawbone might expand this payment system to include other credit cards from companies like Visa and Master Card. However, it would seem that this kind of payment system is slowly gaining traction among mobile device makers.

Jawbone devices currently track things like a person’s movements, how many calories they have burned and their sleep activity. The company’s latest device, the Jawbone UP3, is slated to start shipping to pre-order customers on April 20.

Source: Wall Street Journal

The official Scribd apps for Windows Phone and Windows 8.1 have been removed from their respective store fronts, less than a year after the online e-reading subscription service added support for Microsoft’s mobile OS as a universal app for both platforms.

Workflow allows you to automate all kinds of tasks right on your iPhone, and soon, right on your wrist with Apple Watch.

If you’ve ever found yourself wishing some of the most repeated tasks on your iPhone could be done easier and with less steps, Workflow is for you. If you frequently email the same group of people, Workflow can make child’s play of it. Travel a lot and frequently need to find coffee shops to work from? Workflow can automate that too. The possibilities of what you can automate with Workflow are nearly endless. Now a lot of that incredible automation power is coming to your wrist with Workflow for Apple Watch.

As of today, Workflow is being updated to support Apple Watch. Currently Workflow supports over 200 custom actions with more being added all the time. You can also create your own if you’d like. While some actions will still require you to interact with your iPhone, there are lots of useful ones that can be triggered and run right from your Apple Watch. Tasks such as adding a calendar event, sending an email, reading an article, finding nearby points of interest (such as coffee shops), adding reminders, and even saving media to Dropbox are some of the things you’ll be able to do without touching your iPhone. You can also check out DeskConnect’s complete list of all the actions that will be supported natively on Apple Watch as of launch.

Starting workflows on Apple Watch is simple and only involves a glance and a swipe. Any workflow that you try to run that needs your iPhone will prompt you. Otherwise, many actions can just be run right on your wrist. This makes it easy to do basic things such as getting directions, finding a place to eat, or even tweeting a photo without ever touching your iPhone.

You can read even more about Workflow for Apple Watch over on the DeskConnect website. You can start using Workflow as soon as you get an Apple Watch, and they go on sale April 24th. Even if you don’t plan on picking up an Apple Watch, we still recommend picking up Workflow and checking it out on your iPhone. A lot of us around iMore already use it every day for everything from sending emails to auto-spamming each other with GIFs and thousands of emojis. Whatever you need to automate on iOS, Workflow has you covered.

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Oddworld Inc. co-founder Lorne Lanning, says that a remake of the legendary PS1 classic Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus is the ‘next logical one to go into production’. I agree.

Following the reception of Abe’s Oddysee’s ‘New n’ Tasty’ remake, it certainly makes sense!

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, the free-to-play turn-based card game from Blizzard Entertainment, is now available for iPhone.

If you’re unfamiliar with Hearthstone, the game is based on Blizzard’s wildly popular Warcraft franchise, and tasks players with building decks and going head-to-head by summoning creature cards and casting spells at their opponents. The game has an added twist, though, as players actually assume the role of one of nine heroes, each with representing popular hero characters from the Warcraft franchise and sporting their own unique abilities.

The game launched on iPad back in April of 2014, and has been a tablet-only affair ever since. However, today’s launch on iPhone marks the game’s first foray into being truly mobile, and it comes at a good time — just after the launch of the game’s second single-player expansion. If you’re ready to get some card battling action in on your iPhone, the move to smaller screens comes as a universal update to the game, which you can grab from the link below.

More: Ten tips, hints, and tricks to building a killer deck in Hearthstone

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AT&T has a small update that’s currently rolling out for owners of its Samsung Galaxy Note 4 smartphone, with a number of minor changes and fixes.

The download size is just 142MB but AT&T still requires that Galaxy Note 4 owners grab it via their Wifi connection rather than from their cellular network.

Chrome 42 brings a new push API, fixes and enhancements, and the answer to life, the universe and everything.

Google has pushed the latest version of Chrome — version 42 — to the stable channel for users on Windows, OS X and Linux. Your browser should automatically pull the new version through the silent-update mechanism, or you can download it directly from Google or your Linux distro’s package manager. Getting the update is easy, unlike the obstacle course that is Android updates. Here’s what you’ll find once you update, according to the short version of the change log.

OWC has announced the Envoy Pro mini, a USB thumb drive with the storage capacity of a desktop hard drive.

The Envoy Pro mini is a USB 3.0 thumb drive that comes in two capacities, and supports sustained data transfer speeds of up to 433MB/s. For $119, you’ll get 120GB of storage, while $199 will net you 240GB. OWC will release another model later this year with 480GB of storage for $599.

This wasn’t OWC’s only solid state storage announcement this week. On Monday, the company revealed the Viper Pro, an external SSD with support for Thunderbolt 2, coming in 4TB and 8TB configurations.

The Envoy Pro mini is now available to order from OWC and select retail partners.

Source: OWC

Apple has reportedly acquired LinX, a camera technology company based in Israel that focuses on multi-aperture camera sensors.

Details on the reported acquisition are light, but the value of the deal was pegged at $20 million, as reported by CNBC:

Apple buys Israeli camera technology company LinX; discussions has been for deal around $20M, sources tell Dow Jones.

— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) April 14, 2015

According to its website, LinX specializes in creating camera sensors that take advantage of multi-aperture imaging technology, with the goal of bringing improved performance across the board:

Utilizing state-of-the-art multi aperture imaging technology that combines innovative image processing, advanced sensor and optics technology, our cameras set new standards for image quality parameters such as low light performance, HDR, refocusing, color fidelity, shutter lag and more.

LinX cameras are significantly smaller than any camera on the market today, leading the way to DSLR performance in slim handsets.

Additionally, LinX says that its sensors also capture depth information in a scene, allowing for users to refocus a picture after it has been taken. We’ve seen such a thing in action before with technologies such as Intel’s RealSense 3D depth camera, which takes advantage of a three-camera setup on the back of a device to provide the necessary depth information. However, from its description, it sounds like LinX’s solution packages the camera sensors into a much smaller form factor.

Of course, nothing is official until we get a firm confirmation from Apple. However, if true, this this wouldn’t be Apple’s first acquisition of an Israel-based company, with a previous acquisition leading to the addition of TouchID tech on the iPhone 5S — so there’s a chance we could see some interesting camera tech on a future iPhone.

Sources: CNBC (Twitter), LinX Imaging