Author: Jack Slater
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It’s New (Old) iPad Day
If you don’t want to waste time at an upcoming event by talking about updates to old products that nobody will think about for too long, you do it in a press release. As rumored, that’s what Apple has done with this press-release update to their iPad lineup. The iPad Mini has been updated for the first…
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Xbox One S All-Digital Edition Rumored for May
If this actually ships with this name it probably won’t be the worst-named product Microsoft has ever shipped, but it will be close. The Xbox One S All-Digital Edition has been rumored to come out in May without a disc drive. Jez Corden of Windows Central has the sources and more details. As I’ve remarked…
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New Pokémon On The Way: Sword & Shield
Nintendo and Game Freak debuted the first original mainline, non-remake, Pokémon game for the Nintendo Switch, and its new starters, in the direct above. Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield are on their way with a “late 2019” release window.
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Ape Out is Loose
An Ape has escaped, but he isn’t a friendly little hominid with a siren. No, this is a vicious one from Gabe Cuzzillo, Matt Boch, and Bennett Foddy, oddly enough. Ape Out is an overhead smash-em-up with noisy drums and it looks like much fun for anyone who enjoys escapism. Alice Bell of RPS enjoyed…
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Housing the Houseless
Jeremy Hobson for WBUR interviewing Martha Kegel (executive director of a non-profit) on how New Orleans reduced their number of houseless people by 90%: And lastly, she says, the team took a “Housing First” approach, which is “simply the idea that you accept people as they are,” whether they are sober or not. “You just…