Forza Street Now Available to Download for Android and iOS, Early Adopters Get Free In-Game Gifts

Early adopters of Forza Street are getting "special gifts" by the developers. Forza Street, a popular desktop racing game by Microsoft, has finally reached Android and iOS devices. The mobile app can be downloaded via Google Play Store, Samsung Galaxy Store, and Apple Appl Store and is available for free.

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Coronavirus: Activision, Electronic Arts Post Strong Earnings as People Stay at Home and Play

US video game titans Activision and Electronic Arts on Tuesday reported strong earnings as people staying home due to the coronavirus pandemic turn to games such as Call of Duty.

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Apple WWDC 2020 to start June 22, will be free for developers

Apple has officially announced the dates for its World Wide Developer Conference or WWDC. According to Apple, WWDC will start on June 22 and will stream through Apple Developer App and  the Apple Developer Website. The conference will be free for developers.

It has been rumoured for some time that Apple would delay WWDC this year. The company did later say that this year’s WWDC was going to be nothing like people are used to at such a conference. WWDC is the annual event for Apple to announce new features that would be included in the various operating systems for Apple devices that is expected later this year. This includes iOS, iPadOS, WatchOS, tvOS and macOS.

In the press release issued by Apple the company said that “WWDC20 will be our biggest yet, bringing together our global developer community of more than 23 million in an unprecedented way for a week in June to learn about the future of Apple platforms,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “We can’t wait to meet online in June with the global developer community and share with them all of the new tools we’ve been working on to help them create even more incredible apps and services. We look forward to sharing more details about WWDC20 with everyone as we get closer to this exciting event.”

In order to get more information about WWDC, app developers would have to download the Developer App. Where the programming for the event would be listed. Currently, Apple has not mentioned any details around a public Livestream event or the time and schedule for it. WWDC 2020 would be Apple’s first event this year, given that the announcements for the iPhone SE 2020, iPad Pro 2020, and even the new 13-inch MacBook Air didn’t get any Livestream events.

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Unreal Engine 425 released by Epic Games Brings PS5 and Xbox Series X support and Niagara visual effects system

Unreal Engine update 4.25 drops today bringing support for next-gen consoles such as the Sony Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X. The game engine update will also ship with the now production-ready version of Unreal Engine's Niagara Visual Effects System. The beta version of the Niagara Visual Effects System was tested in Fortnite. Here's the full list of new features shipping with Unreal Engine 4.25

Key features in Unreal Engine 4.25 include:

Next-Gen Console Platform Support: Unreal Engine 4.25 delivers initial support for Sony’s PlayStation 5 and Microsoft's Xbox Series X as first-class platforms, and throughout the year we will be updating the 4.25-Plus branch with optimizations, fixes, and certification requirements to support developers launching on the next generation of consoles. Features include platform-specific functionality, such as new audio advancements, initial support for online subsystems, and early support for TRC and XR certification requirements.

Enhanced Profiling: First introduced in UE 4.23, Unreal Insights is a standalone profiling application that integrates with Unreal Engine to collect, analyze, and visualize engine trace data. Now with the UE 4.25 release, Unreal Insights offers UI improvements and introduces Networking Insights to help developers optimize, analyze, and debug network traffic while cross-referencing against other types of data. In addition, Unreal Editor now has a new Animation Insights plugin which enables animators to visualize gameplay state and live animation behavior while working in Unreal Editor, to more easily diagnose problems and optimize performance.

Niagara VFX Now Production-Ready: Battle-tested on Fortnite, Unreal Engine’s Niagara visual effects system is now production-ready. In UE 4.25, Niagara comes with a polished new UI, significant performance and stability improvements, and an array of new features including an audio waveform data interface, particle-to-particle communication, and spatial hashing. Niagara lets users create complex, large-scale particle effects, such as flocking and chains, and have those particles react to music or other audio sources, all in real time.

Chaos Advancements: Unreal Engine’s Chaos physics and destruction system, now in active use on shipping seasons of Fortnite, includes major advancements in UE 4.25. Chaos now supports destruction, static mesh dynamics with collisions, cloth, hair, rigid-body skeletal control for items such as ponytails and scene queries. As a native physics system, Chaos’ code is easily extended and optimized specifically for Unreal Engine for the most powerful real-time performance.

Shading Model Improvements: The UE 4.25 release adds a new physically based Thin Transparency shading model and a new Anisotropy material input property, as well as improvements to the Clear Coat shading model. The Thin Transparency shading model provides native support for true tinted translucent materials with physically accurate properties, so that users can easily simulate materials such as tinted car windows in a single pass. New Anisotropy support enables the simulation of complex materials like brushed metal and other materials that have been “sanded.” The Clear Coat shading model, used to simulate multilayered car paint, now provides more physically accurate behavior in response to directional, spot, and point lights.

Ray Tracing Features Now Production-Ready: Unreal Engine’s ray tracing features are production-ready in the 4.25 release, along with several additions and improvements including: added support for Niagara Mesh Emitters on both CPU and GPU, added support for the new Anisotropy shading model, significant improvements to the Clear Coat shading model when used in conjunction with ray tracing features, and added Clear Coat BRDF material support to the Path Tracer when generating ground truth comparisons.

High-Quality Media Output: UE 4.25 adds a new pipeline that supports high-quality rendering of movies and stills with accumulated anti-aliasing and motion blur, as well as tiled rendering for extremely high-resolution output. This lets creators efficiently produce high-quality media for use in cinematics, marketing materials, linear entertainment, and very high-resolution images intended for print, all directly from Unreal Engine without post-processing. Multiple render jobs may be queued and rendered without user intervention.

Immersive, Realistic Audio: In UE 4.25, the Unreal Audio Engine now provides support for convolution reverb processing and sound field rendering, ultimately delivering more immersive and lifelike audio to listeners. Designers may use these new features to enhance their projects by using detailed captured or designed sound fields that spherically envelop their listeners, and sampled reverb impulses that simulate real-life acoustic spaces.

LiDAR Point Cloud Support: UE 4.25 adds native Unreal Engine support for importing, visualizing, editing, and interacting with point clouds acquired from laser scanning devices, thereby giving accurate context to newly designed elements. UE 4.25 also adds support for working with multiple point cloud segments while still maintaining frame performance, an option to delete hidden points, and various other enhancements. These updates enable design visualization specialists, manufacturers, set designers, builders, and more to aggregate and use huge datasets captured from the real world.

Improved HoloLens 2 Support: The UE 4.25 release offers production-ready support for Microsoft’s HoloLens 2, and introduces initial support for Azure Spatial Anchors. Users will also see performance improvements, new support for mixed reality capture from a third-person camera view, and the ability to enable HoloLens remoting from packaged Unreal Engine applications via a command line.

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Here is whats coming to Netflix India in May

As we head into two more weeks of lockdown, it’s imperative that we keep ourselves entertained. With that in mind, we realized that a lot of our readers are watching OTT services like Netflix and more. We’ve compiled a list of all the Netflix shows and films that will be coming out in May. This list will feature films and shows that will be coming out between today and May 20. 

There's a lot of stuff for you guys to sink your teeth into including shows and movies like Castle Rock, Aerials, The Wrong Missy and many more. Also, note that if more films and shows are released in May we’ll be sure to update the list so that our readers know exactly what’s coming in the next few weeks. Also, if you're interested in sci-fi movies, we suggest you check this list out. We've also got a few superhero films you should take a look at along with some of the best anime shows on the streaming platform. 

So, check out this list of what’s coming to Netflix India in May.

May 6th

Si Mi Amor 

Becoming 

May 7th

Scissor Seven

Life 

Si Doel 

May 8th

Rust Valley Restorers 

Craig Ross Hr’s Monogamy

The Eddy 

Valeria 

Dead to Me 

So Doel the movie 

The Hollow 

Restaurants on the Edge 

Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt 

May 11

Trial by Media 

Border town season 3 

Have A good trip; Adventures in psychedelics 

Aerials 

May 12

True: Terrific tales 

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt vs The Reverend

May 13th

The Wrong Missy 

May 14th

Schitt’s Creek 

Dilan 1990

Dilan 1991 

May 15th

All Saints 

White Lines

Castle rock 

Swat under siege 

Magic for Humans Season 3 

Inhuman resources Season 1 

Human Nature 

Learning Time with Timmy

I Love You, Stupid 

Maudie 

The Unremarkable Juanquini 

May 17

El Limite Infinito 

May 18

The Big flower fight 

May 19

Sweet Magnolias Season 1

May 29

Space Force

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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JioFiber set-top box to finally get Amazon Prime Video support

Here is some news for JioFiber set-top box owners that should make them happy. The service has finally gotten Prime Video onboard after the app was seen missing after the launch of JioFiber. But, there is a catch here in that users will still have to buy Prime Video to access the service’s content. The service is not free. The Amazon streaming service comes with excellent shows like tales from the Loop, the man in the High Castle and much, much more. If you’ve got the app on your JioFiber set-top box, here are a few fantasy movies on Prime Video that you can start checking out. 

JioFiber finally receives Amazon Prime Video support

JioFiber was rather empty when it came to OTT services like Prime Video but has steadily been building its library by adding more and more OOT streaming services. Other streaming services on JioFiber set-top boxes include Disney+Hotstar, SonyLiv, ALT Balaji and many more. The service still does not have Netflix support but worry not, as it should be added toJioFiber’s roster soon enough. It’s good to see the service add more OTT streaming services as this will only increase the viability of JioFiber. 

In other news, Reliance Jio seems to be looking to take on video conferencing apps like Zoom, Google Meet and more with Jio Meet. The company’s very own video calling app has not been launched yet but going by how Reliance does things, we expect an announcement soon. As previously reported and as a part of the #CoronaHaaregaIndiaJeetega campaign, Reliance Jio is also offering new customers a base plan of 10Mbps without charging any service charge. For existing JioFiber users, the broadband provider is doubling the data which is a part of the plan. 

As the lockdown is extended for two more weeks, it looks like we all need a bit of entertainment in our lives and with the addition of Prime Video to the JioFiber set-top box, there is now more content to consume for JioFiber users. 

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PUBG Mobile 0.18.0 Update Brings Changes to Miramar Map, New Features, and More

PUBG Mobile 0.18.0 update has been released and it brings a refreshed Miramar map with new areas, a race track, a new weapon, and more.

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