Adobe brings its handy mobile design apps to Android
Back in October, Adobe delivered a new suite of mobile apps to iOS devices. Keeping its promise to include the Android faithful as well, the company’s Photoshop Mix, Color CC, Brush CC and Shape CC are now available for download over at Google Play. Creative types running Google’s mobile OS on their devices can expect to easily transform a photo taken with a phone into vector art with Shape CC, make images edits with Photoshop Mix and build a collection of hues with Color CC. If you fancy iOS, there’s a new color capture app called Hue CC. With this bit of software, capture colors from photos to create custom Looks that can then be applied to videos in Premiere and After Effects on the desktop or Premiere Clip on a phone or tablet. All of the mobile apps are free to use, but Creative Cloud subscribers can take advantage of desktop compatibility and cloud storage for all of the stuff created while on the go.
Source: Google Play (1), (2), (3), (4), iTunes
Watch Ubisoft’s E3 keynote live stream here!
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re waiting for Ubisoft to shed more light on its upcoming titles: Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, Tom Clancy’s The Division and possibly several virtual reality games as hinted by the company last month. To get the latest sneak peek (you know you want to), feel free to tune in here at 2:45PM PT / 5:45PM ET today to watch Ubisoft’s E3 conference live stream, courtesy of Twitch. Don’t worry if you can’t make it, though, as we’ve got you well covered for E3 this year. You’re very welcome.
http://www.twitch.tv/ubisoft/embed
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Filed under: Gaming
EA shows off its stable of upcoming sports blockbusters
As expected, EA took the stage at E3 2015 to showcase the next installment of its popular sports franchises. That, of course, includes FIFA 16, Madden 16, NBA Live 16, NHL 16 and Rory McIlroy PGA Tour. This year, like most others, EA Sports is focusing on evolution rather than revolution, so people familiar with these titles won’t notice any major change. But that’s not to say some things haven’t changed. In the case of FIFA 16, for example, there are all-new defensive mechanics, which will help you defend better ground against attacking players. For NBA 16, EA Sports revealed an app that can take your picture and then use it as a custom character’s face — the most impressive part about this is how it only takes a couple of minutes.
Madden 16, meanwhile, comes with a completely overhauled passing game, designed to assist quarterbacks, receivers and defenders in coverage. You’ll see improved passing for specific routes, for example, allowing you to choose different types of catches — including one that lets players attack the ball at its highest point. As a defender, on the other hand, you can play the receiver instead of just the ball, which should make it harder for anyone to score on you.
Rory Mcllroy PGA Tour, Madden 16, NHL 16, FIFA 16 and NBA Live 16 will be released on July 14th, August 15th, September 15th, September 23rd and September 29th, respectively. Trailers for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions are below.
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Filed under: Gaming, Home Entertainment, HD
Ubisoft’s E3 2015 liveblog!
Ubisoft’s E3 blitz is a curious mix of triple-A titles, like Assassins Creed, as well as, er, Raving Rabbits and Just Dance iterations. It’s also typically had a spadeful of spectacle thrown into the mix. And that’s probably a very good reason to liveblog it — so we’re going to. Expect more information on Ubisoft’s premier titles, more information on Rainbow Six: Siege. It all starts at 2:45PM PT, or 5:45PM ET. Come on over and join us!
Try hating ‘Star Wars Battlefront’ now that you’ve seen it
Star Wars Battlefront invades PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on November 17th with large-scale multiplayer gameplay and a lot of classic series trimmings. We’re talking lightsabers, X-Wings, AT-STs and more. You can see a lot of those in the gameplay video below, in a battle inspired by the Hoth sequence from The Empire Strikes Back, captured on PlayStation 4. It’s pre-alpha gameplay (meaning incredibly early), but it looks bombastic with a sense of scale I haven’t seen in a Star Wars game to date. The AT-AT feels like a monstrous, multi-story death contraption that could kill you underfoot if you walk too close to it.
Oh, and you can pilot one. The gameplay demo switches between Empire and Rebel forces and shows off the danger of controlling these: a snowspeeder tripping you with its tow cable. I don’t want to spoil the end for you, but a familiar man in black makes an appearance. Good luck waiting until November 17th.
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Xbox at E3: The big news and what it means for you
Xbox 360 backwards compatibility. A new $150 “Elite” controller. A mind-blowing Minecraft for HoloLens demo. Fallout 4, Halo 5, Tomb Raider, Gears of War and even more Gears of War. Microsoft had a lot to show off at its E3 2015 event, so let our team on the ground recap what we’ve seen and offer some initial thoughts on it before we move on with today’s other big events.
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Time to change your master password, LastPass was hacked
Password-management service LastPass announced today that it “discovered and blocked suspicious activity” on its network on Friday. While the company says that there is no evidence that user vault data (a user’s stored passwords) was taken or that accounts were accessed, it did acknowledge that user email addresses, authentication hashes, password reminders and server per user salts were compromised. LastPass is confident that its encryption is strong enough to make attacking those stolen hashes with any speed difficult. But yeah, if you’re a LastPass customer you should change your password. Even though LastPass recommends you change your password if you have a weak master password or use that password on multiple sites, you really should change your master password — and switch on multifactor authentication — just in case.
Filed under: Internet, Software
Source: LastPass
There’s a new South Park game and it’s all about superheroes
Well, Ubisoft just kicked off its E3 press conference with what’s definitely a crowd pleaser: a new South Park game. Aisha Tyler (she of “LANAAAAA!!! fame) brought out South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone to announced the title, South Park: The Fractured But Whole (get it? yeah). The game’s currently in development — sorry, no release date was mentioned — with Ubisoft’s San Francisco studio and picks up where Stick of Truth left off. You’re still the “new kid,” but this time you and the South Park crew are playing superheroes.
“At the end of Truth, we kinda realized how to make videogames, said Matt Stone on stage. Well, considering how many patches were issued for Truth, Matt, we’re inclined to agree.
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Popular Robbery and Hostage-Taking Franchise “Payday” Is Coming to Mobile
Payday is a popular 2011 first-person shooter in which players adopt the persona of various bank robbers who appear lifted from either The Dark Knight or Point Break. The goal, as one would surmise, is to take money and terrorize people via the hostage process. It’s good family fun.
Despite the game’s popularity on Playstation 3 and PC, it has evaded mobile development for some years. However, rest easy, aspirant ne’er-do-wells – Payday is coming to mobile.
The Swedish studio behind the game, Starbreeze, has partnered with Cmune, a Chinese mobile games specialist better known for goofy micropayment games supported by Facebook. Starwood has ever acquired 6.3 percent of Cmune in the process , a $1.4 million investment.
If anything, this speaks volumes about the gaming power in mobile devices now. Sure, it’s easy to argue that the processing power is somehow not current, since we’re looking at PS3 games four years later, but that’s a pretty awesome achievement.
Personally, this game has zero appeal to me. Sure, I appreciate a good heist film where one is rooting for the criminals, but something about playing the active, first-person role in the whole thing doesn’t work for this author, yet still I think Grand Theft Auto is wildly entertaining. Chances are I feel this way because I actually witnessed a bank hostage situation when I was a kid. Clearly, I’m a conflicted individual.
But hey, if this is your cup of tea and you’re jazzed to put on some clown masks and raise hell, who am I to judge?
No word yet on when this new version of Payday will be released, but don’t be shocked if we get into 2016 before it shows up in your respective app store.
Source: Starbreeze
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