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Fortnite’s new ‘Party Worlds’ put the focus firmly on socializing

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“Party Worlds” are new spaces coming to Fortnite which are designed to focus on socializing over combat, the game’s developer Epic Games has announced. Just use the tag “Party World” for an island, and submit it through this submission form. Image: Epic Games. There’s a second Party World called ‘Late Night Lounge.’.

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Xbox’s Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hryb ‘taking a step back’ from Microsoft

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GeekWire File Photo) Larry Hryb, better known to the Xbox player community by his gamer tag “Major Nelson,” announced Friday that he’s “taking a step back” from his job at Microsoft. He also routinely gave away free Xbox games on Friday afternoons via his official Twitter. Larry Hryb (aka Major Nelson). Q: What's next?

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HBO Max’s cheaper ad-supported tier will reportedly cost $9.99 per month

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WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar has also confirmed in a March analyst event that HBO original shows won’t get ads added in, so customers won’t have to worry about Euphoria , The Sopranos , or Game of Thrones getting interrupted by commercials. price tag would mark a new low price for access to HBO’s content, undercutting the $14.99

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The Twitch streamers fighting to keep minority languages alive

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Recently, many of these languages have found new life from an unexpected source: video game streamers. Good news arrived for some on May 26th when Twitch announced that it would add over 350 new stream tags , encompassing different ethnic groups and underrepresented communities. million people in a tiny corner of Spain.

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Vergecast: Microsoft’s metaverse, Beats Fit Pro review, and Craig Federighi on sideloading

The Verge

This week on The Vergecast, The Verge ’s Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Alex Cranz, and Tom Warren discuss Microsoft’s take on the metaverse at the Ignite event this past week. Microsoft is planning 3D metaverse apps for Xbox and gaming. Facebook is shutting down its Face Recognition tagging program.

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The first laptops with Intel’s Iris Xe Max graphics are now available to order

The Verge

Earlier this month , the public got its first glimpse of Iris Xe Max, Intel’s new discrete GPU for thin-and-light laptops, at an Acer press event. The company also claims its GPU can deliver “great thin-and-light 1080p gaming on popular games.” . | Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge.

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Vergecast: the specs and ports announced at Apple’s ‘Peek Performance’ event

The Verge

This week on The Vergecast, Nilay, along with Verge managing editor Alex Cranz and deputy editor Dan Seifert, discusses all the announcements from Apple’s Peek Performance event this week — including an updated iPhone SE with 5G , the new Mac Studio desktop computer , an iPad Air with an M1 processor , and the 27-inch 5K Studio Display monitor.

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