Shoot the bad guys and save the planet with Battle Planet!

Defuse the bombs, defeat your enemies, and try to survive.

Dropped onto a planet where my ancestors once dwelled, I’m armed only with a single gun, a jetpack, and the knowledge that my ride should be back in roughly a year. The place is mostly deserted, so it seems like it might be an actual cake walk. Well, until you factor in Tyranid spaceships launching bombs at ancient burial sites, subterranean worms, and bounty hunters all after me at once. Thankfully, the more I shoot, the nastier I am to my enemies and I have a job to do. It’s time to clear the planet that my Ancestors are interred in. This is Battle Planet.

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What do I need to jump from Big Four to an alternative carrier?

Making the change to an alternative carrier can save you money and give you better service, but you need to know a few things before you do it.

When you port out your number and switch away from one of the Big Four to a carrier that might work better for you, nothing is hard. You either click a few buttons online and enter a few details or make a phone call from someone else’s phone and a person on the other end clicks their buttons. But it’s not something you want to go in blind and learn from regretful mistakes. Trust us, we’ve been there.

The good news is that you already know what you need to do and only need to ask yourself the right questions. We can help. Here’s a list of the things you need to get sorted before you make the jump.

A phone

Some alternative carriers will sell you a new phone, but most likely you don’t need one. The phone you’re using now will probably work!

You need to know what type of network and what frequencies your phone supports. That information might be on the box or papers that came with it, but if you don’t have those Google will help. If you don’t understand what you’re seeing there, a quick question in our forums will get you squared away.

Take that information and check it against the network details for the carrier you want to use. You’ll find those online at their website or you can give them a quick call. If things match, you’re golden.

If you love the phone you have now you can find a compnay that gives you the right service for it.

You might need to get your phone unlocked if you bought it from the phone company you’re using now. That’s something they will do for you as long as you’ve met certain requirements like paying the bill for a set number of months. If you’ve paid the phone off or finished the contract, they’ll help you. If for some reason they can’t or won’t, there are literally hundreds of third-party phone unlocking services online. Check the reviews and pick one and you’ll be good to go in short order.

If you want to buy a new phone, you want to buy one that’s unlocked and has the right network frequencies and bands. The people selling you the phone can help or a quick online search has the answer. We’ve got a few suggestions ourselves.

More: The best unlocked phones

Check the coverage

What works well for me might not work well for you. Every carrier has a map that shows their network footprint. Find it and give it a skeptical look.

Be cautious if you’re on the fringe of coverage or there are any fancy modifiers like carrier-partner or anything but the words LTE or 4G when you’re looking at the map. And be sure you’re looking at the data coverage map, not the voice calling coverage map.

If you’re in the middle of coverage with no big gaps on the map, you’re probably good. If not, don’t be afraid to look at a different carrier.

How much data will you use and how many minutes do you need?

An independent alternative carrier will have more options when it comes to buying service. That’s how they can be profitable — they buy a LOT and break it into chunks to resell to us.

Look at your last couple of phone bills and see how many calling minutes you used and how much data you used. Give yourself a little slack and pick a plan that gives you what you need and doesn’t have you paying for stuff you’re not using.

If you end up not buying enough, you can always add more at any time and adjust for next month. If you choose too much, you can choose less next month. That flexibility is one of the benefits of moving away from the big companies.

You need a little bit of tech-fu

Don’t worry, you don’t need a lot of tech knowledge, but you will need to know a couple things about your phone.

You’ll need to know what size SIM card you need and how to change it. Your manual has all this information or Google does. Your new phone company will be happy to sell you the correct size SIM card as long as you let them know what you need.

Programming the network on your phone is easier than you think so don’t be intimidated.

You’ll also need to know how to program the new network into your phone. Things might work when you insert a new SIM card but most times not everything works correctly. This is because you need to set what’s called an APN.

APN’s for the bigger carriers are already set, and the phone will pick the one that’s the closest match to your new service. But to get things like MMS or full speed LTE up and running usually requires you to enter a few lines through the settings. It’s easy if you have a little guidance, which you’ll find at your phone company website. If in doubt, hit our forums for help.

Make sure you have a fallback plan

It might be tempting to pay the last bill from your old carrier with a wheelbarrow of pennies while letting the world know what a rip-off they are, or even thinking they can stuff it and stiffing them on that last payment. But don’t do it.

You can’t go back if you burn the bridge. You never know how new service from a new company will be until you try it. If it’s unacceptable, you’ll want to switch back while you explore other options so you’re not without a phone.

That’s hard to do if you went out in a blaze of glory. Anyways, the people working at the store aren’t the people who are ripping you off every month so be nice. Tell them how they can save money by switching!

Changes can be turbulent soemtimes, but with a little thought switching phone companies doesn’t have to be!

Reigns selected as big winner at Google Play Indie Games final

Long live the King!

The first ever Google Play Indie Games contest has wrapped up with UK developers Nerial winning twice over for their outstanding game Reigns. This comes as little surprise to us: Reigns is a fantastic game and one of our favorites of 2016.

On top of winning the overall prize, Reigns also won the Unity prize, which provides Nerial with a 12-month subscription to Unity’s professional game development platform.

We took another look at Reigns, as well the runner ups, The Battle of Polytopia and Causality. You can find the full list of finalists here.

Reigns

Reigns is a game all about making the right decisions to keep your kingdom prosperous and secure. You start out as a young king taking over control of his kingdom in the first year of his reign. Advisers, citizens and animals appear as cards, coming to you with issues and questions that require a ruling — swipe right for yes, swipe left for no.

The decisions you make will affect the four aspects of your kingdom: the church, the people, the army or the treasury. Each is tracked at the top of the screen by the meter, and your duty as king is to monitor them and make sure that no meter becomes entirely full or empty — if that happens, your fate is sealed and the heir to the crown rises and becomes the new King.

It’s an absolutely unique title that will hook you in with it’s dark sense of humor, stylish design, simple game-play and intriguing storytelling. Check out our beginner’s guide for more information on how to play the games and some tips to help you start your reign out right.

Download: Reigns ($2.99)

The Battle of Polytopia

Fans of turn-based strategy games like the Civilization series will absolutely want to check out The Battle of Polytopia. Developed by Midjiwan AB from Sweden, this stylish game packs in a deceiving amount of strategy and fun. Explore the world around you and build up your kingdom by investing in new technology and troops as you capture villages and expand your empire.

It’s easy to see why this game made Google Play’s top three — with multiple game modes including the rarely seen pass-and-play option for playing against friends and 20 tribes to unlock and play as, this feels like a full-fledged strategy game packaged with cartoony graphics and scaled down perfectly for playing on a mobile device. The turn-based game-play against the AI is brisk and you can add more opponents or up the difficulty level if you’re in need of a bigger challenge. Best of all, it’s a free download from the Google Play Store! This games feels perfect for your daily commute on public transit, or really any time you got time to kill — If you start a Domination game (last tribe standing wins), you can save and resume your game at a later time as needed.

Download: The Battle of Polytopia (Free)

Causality

Causality will absolutely blow your mind. This is just a brilliant game where you control time and make adjustments to the level and alter the sequence in such a way that you help your stranded astronauts reach their goals.

Set in simplistic-yet-beautiful alien landscapes, this stylish game will have you wracking your brain as you try to figure out how to guide each astronaut to their color-coded exit within the time frame. Of course, you have full control over the timeline, and can jump to any point in time and change an aspect of the level. There are 60 mind-bending puzzles to unlock and complete in this outstandingly polished and challenging game.

Download: Causality ($1.99)

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‘Alien: Covenant’ preview evokes original’s nostalgic last supper

While the first official trailer for Alien: Covenant showed us terrifying images of a colony ship gone horribly wrong, this new preview gives us a full, uncut scene. It’s a stunning glimpse at the titular ship’s crew relaxing together with a final meal before readying themselves for a long cryogenic sleep.

Titled, “Prologue: Last Supper,” this four-minute preview has many of the tropes we expect from an Alien movie. There’s the harshly-lit cast of characters, some creepy moments of foreboding and a technologically plausible background, like pre-cryo vitamin packs and a spaceship that looks more functional than pretty. There’s even a pretty fantastic callback to the original movie’s famous dinner scene.

The overall tone of this new trailer is nostalgic, with the couples intended to colonize a new world waxing poetic about what meals they’ll miss the most while spending their last few moments together around the ship’s table. There’s a striking moment when Katherine Waterston’s terraforming expert, Daniels, addresses the crew that’s posed just like DaVinci’s well-known mural. It’s a brilliant way to remind viewers just how awful things will get once the Xenomorphs arrive.

This is the sixth movie in the sci-fi series, and a sequel to 2012’s Prometheus, also directed by Ridley Scott, making Alien: Covenant the third Scott-helmed movie in the franchise. Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace also reprise their roles from Prometheus, though Fassbender’s android here is a more advanced model named Walter.

Alien: Covenant is set to release May 19 in theaters, so we don’t have too much longer to wait for this high-concept, hard science fiction entry into the beloved series.

Via: Mashable

Source: 20th Century Fox

Google is donating $11.5 million to racial justice causes

Google will invest $11.5 million to support racial justice, the company announced in a blog post today. The funds are split between 10 different causes, with $5 million going to the Center for Policing Equality. “CPE’s National Justice Database is the first in the nation to track national statistics on police behavior, including stops and use of force, and standardizes data collection across many of the country’s police departments,” Justin Steele, a Google.org principal, writes on The Keyword blog.

He says that there isn’t a uniform method of data collection thus far, and as such makes apples-to-apples comparisons between reported statistics from one agency to the next nigh impossible.

“We believe better data an be part of the solution, which is why we’re investing in organizations using data and evidence to reduce racial disparities in the criminal justice system,” Steele explains.

As USA Today notes, this effort is double the amount Google has donated to these types of causes prior. It’s also an extension of Google’s core belief that through better data, and better ways of understanding it, we can solve a raft of problems.

Source: The Keyword, USA Today

Acer is making an air quality monitor

Acer’s next project is a different type of monitor than you might expect from the company. It’s an air quality monitor, actually. No, wait; where are you going? “The Acer Air Monitor features a sleek and simple design, the device allows real-time monitoring of key air quality indicators through a dedicated app for smartphones, and by the changing colors of a breathing LED light embedded on the chassis,” the company said in a press release. It all sounds very exciting.

As far as looks go, the device is pretty unobtrusive. It’s square, relatively small, white and has a ring that changes color based on the air quality. Speaking of which, the gizmo will send push notifications or even integrate with IFTTT so you can do something when the air quality in your home changes. How it’ll stand out in the admittedly crowded space remains to be seen. Acer expects the device to go on sale sometime between April and July of this year.

Twitter and PBS will livestream Trump’s speech to Congress

Twitter has been livestreaming everything from Presidential debates to boxing matches and NFL games to see what sticks. And just like it did with the inauguration, Twitter will once again pair with PBS to broadcast President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on February 28th.

This time PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff will host the live coverage alongside a team of analysts and PBS correspondents. Because there’s traditionally no State of the Union address in a president’s first year, the joint session address is a less formal affair, but is expected to cover similar topics. The Democrats will also have the opportunity for a post-speech response that will be streamed live on Twitter and PBS as well.

When Trump takes the stage on the 28th, the livestream will be available at jointsession.twitter.com, on NewsHours Twitter page or pbs.org/newshour.

Via: CNET

Source: jointsession.twitter.com

It will cost $670 to get 90 percent of 2017’s ‘Hearthstone’ cards

Since it launched in 2014, Blizzard’s free-to-play digital card game Hearthstone has dominated its niche. To keep gameplay fresh, the studio has alternated new content additions between Adventures, which guarantees some cards for a $20 flat fee, and larger expansion sets that dole out cards in randomized packs bought with in-game gold or real-world currency. Last week, the studio announced it will forgo any Adventure releases in 2017, instead launching three of the latter full-size content blocks for 2017. While this means a record amount of cards will be added, it will be harder — and more expensive — to get all of them.

How pricey does that make Hearthstone now? If players only spent real-world money buying enough packs to get 90 percent of this year’s content, it would cost them about $670 up front.

That’s the number Redditor FliccC arrived at in a post they published shortly after Blizzard’s announcement, a total that is significantly higher than the $440 or so it cost to buy the same percentage of last year’s content. While casual players can coast along, picking up a pack every so often with in-game currency awarded for daily playing, competitive online and tournament play relies on high-performing decks filled with many of the latest cards. And if you imagine yourself a Hearthstone innovator, the only way to workshop new strategies is to personally try out novel combinations in live matches against real opponents who are also packing the newest and coolest toys.

This level of ranked online and tournament competition is kind of like Hearthstone’s end-game content, the challenge lying beyond the casual-mode bunny slopes. As with any statistics-driven scenario, science points to an arbitrary threshold before pouring more money into the card-pack slot machine gives diminishing returns (e.g., duplicates). According to FliccC’s calculations based on this BlizzPro guide, purchasing 200 packs should net a player around 90 percent of any given 130-plus card expansion set. Despite strategically choosing the pre-order deal and bulk buys, this comes out to $223 when shopping straight from the studio’s online store. Even the slick trick of using Amazon Coins for cheaper packs nets a maximum discount of 25 percent off.

While players faced this pricey pack roulette for two of last year’s content releases, they caught a break with last August’s Adventure, One Night In Kharazan, which provided every card in its small set for $20. In its announcement, Blizzard, which has not yet responded to a request for comment on this story, committed to adding Adventure-style single-player content to the second of this year’s expansions, which will reward free packs. But as far as we know, it won’t also offer cheap packages that guarantee cards. Basically, then, if you’re paying up front and want most of this year’s Hearthstone content, for completionist satisfaction or to play competitively, you’ll probably have to spend a little over $200 more than you did last year.

Frankly, that’s kind of nuts. That kind of money spent on a single expansion could buy 13 more months on World of Warcraft or three more $60 major studio games. Heck, purchasing most of all three expansions at that $670 figure could sponsor your 20-person WoW raid group for two months.

Not everyone buys the whole set up front, of course, and most don’t spend much more than a WoW subscriber. Redditor FliccC has spent $800 since the game launched, or about $20 per month. That’s not uncommon: A SuperData report noted that digital collectible card game (CCG) players spend an average of $34.22 per month on those titles. Given that Hearthstone earned four times as much as its next competitor, it will likely take the lion’s share of the $1.4 billion digital CCGs are expected to rake in this year.

There are irregular straw polls on the r/Hearthstone subreddit asking how much total money users put into the game, and one last April found that 24 percent of the more than 25,000 vote sample size hadn’t spent a dime. There will always be the few whales in the ecosystem paying thousands of dollars, like in mobile gaming. But a combined 32 percent — 8,000 — had dropped between $100 and $400 over Hearthstone’s lifetime. That percentage was almost identical in the latest poll, released two months ago.

The question is whether you need all of those cards. Having every option on hand is obviously helpful when tinkering, but the quality of cards in any given set follows a bell curve, with useless junk at the bottom and powerful cards at the top. FliccC, a player since the game was in beta, pointed out that only a small selection of the 901 total cards in Standard format are used at the competitive level.

“If you look at the decks that are competitively played on ladder and in tournaments, the number of viable cards is relatively small. Simply due to the fact that there are currently some cards which are so strong, that if you didn’t include them in your deck, your deck would be considerably worse,” FliccC told Engadget. “In the current meta, people are building decks around mainly two very strong cards: Kazakus and Patches, the Pirate. This leads to many different decks, but since they share a lot of the same cards, the overall competitively viable card pool is rather small.”

For the cash-strapped, Blizzard is a merciful game custodian, and there are mechanisms in Hearthstone to help players chisel away at new content’s sticker price. Completing daily quests and wins nets them, on average, enough in-game gold to buy about 1.5 packs per day. But they’ll still deal with the random results of opening packs, which could hand out dominating legendary-rarity cards or poor-quality “pack fillers.” In many ways, Adventures leveled the playing field, doling out the same cards to everyone who paid its entry fee, including a handful that still make it into top-tier decks today.

That’s where Hearthstone’s free-to-play tier will veer even further from competitive viability in 2017. There’s always been a divide between free-to-play casuals and players committed enough to drop cash on the game, but ditching Adventures also makes the game more expensive, period. Those small sets were not only fun single-player experiences but also affordable and cost-efficient. The most recent, One Night In Kharazan, cost $0.40 per card, while a standard expansion (not considering freebies given out by Blizzard) costs about $1.90 per, according to FliccC’s numbers.

You might notice the former rate is far lower, which is what happens when comparing flat-fee sets giving guaranteed cards with the randomness of the pack roulette. The latter ends up providing players with many duplicates that can be refunded via “disenchanting” for a miserly amount of dust, a secondary resource that can be spent to make any card at a cost that ratchets up based on rarity. Obviously, more extra cards means more dust to go around, making it easier for higher-paying players to afford crafting missing cards. This largesse lets them build out the highest-rated decks listed online, which all cost at least 3,000 dust to make from scratch. A single legendary-rarity card like the game’s current scourge Patches, The Pirate costs 1,600 dust to craft.

There are some unknowns that affect whether paying players will get a bigger competitive edge over their free-to-play peers in 2017, but the most significant x factor is Blizzard’s generosity. While it only gave out six free boosters as quest rewards when the latest expansion, Mean Streets of Gadgetzan, launched, the studio promised daily giveaways of gold, dust and free packs leading up to the first new content release in 2017.

If you’re good and scrappy, you can get pretty far on free stuff: Popular Hearthstone streamer Trump (mayor of value town, not president of the US) infamously almost made it to Legendary rank with a free-to-play account after 2016’s first expansion. If we’re lucky, the fountain of gratis goods coming with the year’s inaugural set will soothe the growing gap between the game’s low-spending and high-paying players.

Source: r/Hearthstone (post)

Indie devs with disabilities win full ride on Train Jam to GDC 

Two game developers with disabilities are headed to the 31st annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) this year via Train Jam, a four-day rail excursion from Chicago to San Francisco that was founded in 2013. Train Jam participants collaborate to create new games during the trip, which they can debut at GDC. Both developers are being sponsored by the AbleGamers Foundation, a nonprofit that provides access to video games for people with disabilities via assistive technologies like adapted controllers.

Veve Jaffa and AJ Ryan, two talented indie developers who experience disabilities, were chosen to receive accessible rooms on the train along with airfare, lodging and Train Jam event tickets, thanks to the sponsorship of both AbleGamers and GDC itself. They’ll also get All Access passes for the following week’s GDC events in San Francisco, which include development panels, technology showcases and demos of new and upcoming video games. GDC is the largest and longest-running conference of its kind, and has become the place to be for anyone working or writing about the gaming industry.

Veve Jaffa experiences chronic pain with sensory and ambulatory challenges. They (their preferred pronoun) are looking forward to the train ride itself, and feel included rather than tokenized. Train Jam is something they’ve always wanted to participate in, but needed accommodations to do so. They’re also speaking at GDC this year about urban exploration and photogrammetry in game design, as well as demonstrating their latest game prototype, Nakam.

“I often strive to meet accessibility standards in my games,” Jaffa told Engadget in an email, “whether it’s unimodal interfaces, text descriptions or accessible colour palettes. I want to demonstrate that you can make complex and engaging games while accommodating a variety of players and abilities.”

Ryan has muscular dystrophy, a progressive disease that affects motor strength. He’s not been to GDC before but wants to prove to the game industry that there are game developers with disabilities who can do great work.

“I’ve successfully done this (created an accessible game) before during multiple game jams but being on a train will bring unique challenges such as no internet access and a bumpy road to code on,” he said in an email.

AbleGamers founder Mark Barlet is proud of his foundation’s sponsorship. Sending two indie developers to both Train Jam and GDC is a move designed to help raise the visibility of people with disabilities in such a culturally significant industry. “We can’t wait to see what Veve and AJ cook up while touring across the country,” he said in a press release, “and are eager to hear about their experiences and opportunities encountered while at GDC in San Francisco.”

Source: Able Gamers

The Wirecutter’s best deals: Save $100 on a Dell UltraSharp monitor

This post was done in partnership with The Wirecutter, a buyer’s guide to the best technology. When readers choose to buy The Wirecutter’s independently chosen editorial picks, they may earn affiliate commissions that support their work. Read their continuously updated list of deals here.

You may have already seen Engadget posting reviews from our friends at The Wirecutter. Now, from time to time, we’ll also be publishing their recommended deals on some of their top picks. Read on, and strike while the iron is hot — some of these sales could expire mighty soon.

RAVPower 22000 mAh Ace Series portable charger

Street price: $40; MSRP: $60; Deal price: $28 w/ code RAV22000

This is a nice deal on our super powerful USB battery pick, and a new lowest price ever. Just make sure to use code: RAV22000 in order to get the best deal price of $28.

The RAVPower 22000mAh Ace Series is our more powerful pick in our guide to the best USB battery packs. Mark Smirniotis wrote, “If you require a lot of power—say, you need to charge your smartphone every night on a weeklong camping excursion, or to keep a couple tablets or large smartphones fully charged throughout an international flight—you should get the RAVPower Ace Series 22000mAh Power Bank. Though only about 85 percent of the capacity of our previous large pick from RAVPower, the RAVPower 26800mAh Xtreme Portable Charger, this newer pack can charge more devices faster than any other contender in our test group. Even though it was second place in overall capacity, it still had enough power to charge a smartphone every night for a week, and when it’s dead, it recharges faster than any other pack we tried.”

Dell UltraSharp U3415W 34-Inch curved LED-Lit monitor

Street price: $700; MSRP: $1,200; Deal price: $600

This is a great deal on our ultrawide pick for the best 27-inch monitor, and the best price we’ve seen so far. This comes in at over $100 below the average street price we’ve been seeing for this ultrawide monitor from Dell and is overall a great price to pick up this monitor. While there is a newer version of this monitor available, the improvements seem very small and we’ve seen quite a few mixed reviews on it, so we suggest sticking to the U3415W.

The Dell UltraSharp U3415W is our ultrawide pick in our guide to the best 27-inch monitor. David Murphy wrote, “If you need a lot more space than our 27-inch 1440p pick provides but don’t want to mess with 4K’s screen-scaling issues, or if you don’t have a computer powerful enough to run a 4K monitor, consider an ultrawide monitor instead. Our favorite is the Dell U3415W. Its factory-calibrated display wasn’t as color-accurate as our other picks on our tests, but it still works well for everyday use. Its display connections and stand are just as good as the P2715Q’s.”

Lewis N. Clark umbrella

Street price: $17; MSRP: $20; Deal price: $10

A new low on an already very affordable umbrella. This $10 deal now means you have no excuse for getting caught out in the rain without an umbrella.

The Lewis N. Clark umbrella is our top pick in our guide to the best umbrellas. Tim Heffernan wrote, “The Lewis N. Clark Umbrella is our overall pick as the best umbrella for most people because it offers more features and durability for the price than anything we’ve tested in the past three years. At 10 ounces, it’s the second-lightest in our test, and the shortest (when closed) at 11 inches (the company lists it at 10.25 inches; it’s not). Its 38-inch canopy (the company underestimates it as 37 inches) is right in the sweet spot for full-size umbrellas, and it performed satisfactorily in last year’s mannequin-in-the-shower test, keeping the head, shoulders, and upper torso dry. This year, it survived the battery of 20 consecutive inversions and continued to open and close without problem (though one arm appeared slightly bent afterward), and it has a handle that stays grippy when wet.”

Refurbished Samsung Gear Fit2 fitness tracker

Street price: $150 (new); MSRP: $180 (new); Deal price: $85

While we’ve seen the Gear Fit2 as low as $130 new, an $85 refurbished large size wearable is a nice discount if you’re in the market for an Android-friendly fitness tracker. Only the black color in large is available for this price (if you’re seeking the small size in black it is also available refurb for $95, but that’s less of a bargain relative to the previous deal pricing we’ve seen). This model, as a Geek Squad refurb, carries a 90 day warranty.

The Samsung Gear Fit2 is our best for Android users pick in our best fitness trackers guide. Amy Roberts writes, “If you’re an Android user, the full-color Gear Fit2 might be the better pick, especially if you value sleekness. It’s noticeably thinner than the Vívosmart HR+ even though it also has GPS, a heart-rate sensor, and automatic activity detection. It’s much cheaper too. However, it is Android-only and is held back by an extremely short battery life of just 2 days, so you have to charge it almost daily. The activity auto-detection is particularly impressive: Once it recognizes a walk, run, or bike ride lasting 10 minutes or longer, the screen changes to a timer recording your effort, and once it detects you’re done, congratulates you on a job well-done.”

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