Jährliche Online-Gaming-Konferenz in Österreich

Beschreibung:
Die jährliche Online-Gaming-Konferenz in Österreich ist ein Muss für alle Videospiel-Enthusiasten. Im Fokus stehen Pay-to-Win-Spiele, und diese Konferenz bringt Entwickler, Spieler und Branchenexperten zusammen, um Trends zu diskutieren, Erkenntnisse zu teilen und neue Veröffentlichungen zu präsentieren. Es wird Podiumsdiskussionen, Q&A-Sitzungen, interaktive Workshops und Live-Gaming-Wettbewerbe geben.

Veranstaltungsdetails:

• Datum: 15. Oktober 2024
• Ort: Messe Wien, Wien, Österreich
• Tickets: Online erhältlich unter www.entertainmentinfo.com/onlinegamingconference
• Ticketpreise:
  • Allgemeiner Eintritt: 150 EUR
  • VIP: 300 EUR (inklusive Zugang zu exklusiven Bereichen, Merchandise und Meet & Greet mit Entwicklern)

Inklusive Aktivitäten:

• Podiumsdiskussionen mit Branchenführern
• Präsentationen neuer Spiele und Updates
• Praktische Workshops für Entwickler und Spieler
• Live-Gaming-Wettbewerbe mit tollen Preisen

Verpassen Sie nicht diese einzigartige Gelegenheit, sich mit anderen Gaming-Fans zu vernetzen und mehr über die Welt der Pay-to-Win-Spiele zu erfahren. Sichern Sie sich jetzt Ihr Ticket!

Another day, another Public Mobile price change.

The Telus-owned wireless provider has tweaked plans for a third time this week. Here are all the latest changes:

$39/50GB 5G Canada/U.S. (unchanged)
$45/65GB 5G Canada/U.S. with 1,000 monthly long-distance minutes to select countries (previously $50/60GB 5G)
$35/50GB 4G (previously $36/50GB 5G)
$34/15GB 4G Canada/U.S. (unchanged)
$30/15GB 4G (unchanged)
$23/6GB 4G (unchanged)
$19/1GB 4G (unchanged)

The $45/mo plan’s long-distance minutes work for calls to China, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Taiwan, and the U.K.

These changes are a little odd. The $35/50GB 4G plan replacing the $36/50GB 5G plan is certainly strange, at least to me. I’m not sure how many people are clamouring for a 4G data plan like this, but hey, at least it’s better than what Koodo, Fido and Virgin have.

The $45/65GB plan, on the other hand, is actually an improvement over the $50/60GB plan while still coming in worse than the $44/80GB 5G Canada/U.S. plan that Public removed earlier this week. It appears to be an attempt to match Freedom’s $45/75GB 5G Canada/U.S./Mexico plan, but it doesn’t quite get there with less data and no Mexico roaming.

You can check out Public’s plans here.

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After testing a Freedom Mobile SIM card last fall, I learned that the carrier could comfortably work in Toronto and at my parents’ house outside of Ottawa in a town called Renfrew. Then, on Black Friday (when I always do cell plan shopping), Freedom Mobile offered the best deal on a plan with Canada and U.S. Data ($45 for 50GB), so I decided to do a longer-term test throughout 2024.

Ten months later, I really don’t have anything bad to say about my experience. Instead, I am walking away happy that I can easily swap from any of the networks owned by Bell, Telus, Rogers, or Freedom (Owned by Videotron) without having to worry about hitting dead zones in places where all my friends have usable service.

A few years ago, most Freedom plans included 1-5GB of nationwide data on top of the 10-50GB of data for use on Freedom’s home networks. That all changed in 2023 when Videotron purchased the carrier and rolled out its current data structure, which includes nationwide coverage by default. As of the time of writing, many Freedom plans also include data in Canada and the U.S.; some even include data for Mexico.

How it went

For my day-to-day living in Toronto, Freedom has been a viable option for years, and up until more recently, was actually the only carrier that had service in some of the city’s subway tunnels. Two of my friends have been on Freedom since before it switched to nationwide, and they didn’t really seem to have any complaints. However, my parents living in a small town and the handful of camping trips I do every year always held me back from the once-regional carrier. Now that I’ve used it, I really can’t complain about the data speeds in Toronto. It’s always fast enough, and I’ve never found myself waiting long for things to download or post.

My first real test of the phone was earlier this summer when I went back to Massasauga Provincial Park to go camping. When I was there last summer, I was on Telus’ network and had usable service in most places throughout the park. This year, when I went there with Freedom, I was still able to use my data, but I will say that compared to my partner on Virgin, my data was slower, and I wasn’t able to stream things like TikTok or Instagram Reels like she could. That being said, I’m not that upset about only having slow-ish internet speeds when camping.

My second camping trip was in the Haliburton region below Algonquin Park, and again, I was able to use my data where we camped. This wasn’t super remote either, but once again, my data wasn’t super fast compared to some others on the trip, but it was still usable.

The only other note I would mention is that I also travelled to the U.S. a few times with this plan, and beyond accidentally burning all my data to watch a super crispy version of Ocean’s 11, which ultimately led to me getting scammed on a recent trip, I found it to work well. If I can stream Ocean’s 11 at 84 Mbps while roaming as a hotspot, I won’t complain.

The final note I’ll mention is that if you do switch to Freedom, you need to go into your phone’s cellular settings and turn roaming on all the time. This allows Freedom to give all users much better coverage than before. Since I have Canadian and U.S. data, I didn’t need to worry about any roaming settings when travelling.

Overall, I have no real complaints about my time with Freedom. If you want the fastest networks in most places, I still think Bell, Telus and Rogers will offer better connections, but for most people, Freedom is definitely a very viable alternative. If I wasn’t planning to switch again this Black Friday to test another network, I would happily stay on Freedom’s network as long as it continues to offer the best mobile networking deals.

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We are less than a week away from Google telling us all there is to tell about the Pixel 9 series and its 4 different phones. But since this is the lead-up to a Google launch, the leaks can’t help themselves and simply have to keep showing up. The latest is a slip-up originating from T-Mobile, who apparently loaded some listings onto their site, which Google grabbed and proudly presented to at least one reddit user.

Want to know how much you’ll pay for a Pixel 9 Pro or the larger Pixel 9 Pro XL? We certainly now know where those prices will start.

Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL Prices: According to a screenshot shared to reddit that shows listings for the Pixel 9 Pro family, the Pixel 9 Pro will start at $999.99 at T-Mobile. The Pixel 9 Pro Xl will start $200 higher at $1,199.99.

My first reaction is to compare these prices to the Pixel 8 Pro, which only comes in a single, large model. Google priced the Pixel 8 Pro with 128GB storage at $999. Since we know that the Pixel 9 Pro comes in regular and XL sizes, this shows Google pricing the smaller version at $999. We expect the smaller model to be the size of the Pixel 8, although all leaks suggest it is just a smaller Pro, without any spec cuts.

I should point out that earlier leaks suggest 128GB storage, so there’s always a chance $1,199 isn’t the true starting point for the Pixel 9 Pro XL. It could be lower.

Is a bigger screen worth that extra $200 then? That’s up to you to decide, but it’s clear (assuming T-Mobile is correct with these) that Google sees an Apple-like opportunity to squeeze some extra cash from those who like bigger phones.

On a related note, T-Mobile loaded these pages to show the 256GB and 512GB models of the Pixel 9 Pro XL at the same $1,199.99 price. I hate to dive into that too much, because these are early carrier listings that Google scraped, but could we see Google run a promotion like Samsung where they give you a free storage upgrade at launch? That would be lovely. Please do that, Google.

You ready to pay $1,200 for the Pixel 9 Pro XL? Is $1,000 too high for the small model?

I’ve been obsessed with the Delta emulator on my iPhone all summer. Playing DS games from my childhood anywhere has been a blast, but what really makes it all the sweeter is how nice Sean Fletcher’s skins look.

I’ve always dreamt of emulators on the iPhone since the design community that uses iOS aligns more with the styles and trends I like. That’s not to say there aren’t great emulators on Android; there are a ton, but I find more designers use Macs and iPhones, so by proxy, iOS apps tend to look nicer. This theory was validated when Delta launched on the App Store with a super clean design from the start, but roughly four months later, one skin pack has risen above them all, and it looks better than my dreams.

Fletcher started by making skins for the Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Colour emulators, but he’s recently branched out to start work on the DS skins. The Game Boy ones are called Delta Pocket, and there are a few varieties depending on how much you’re willing to spend.

The free tier nets you eight skins with solid colours, and four ‘Unlimited Editions’ that include more ambitious colours and cool retro screen filter effects. There are 12 more skins if you’re willing to pay $2. Those offer all kinds of design combos, such as Pokédex, Pikachu and retro handheld themes. There’s also a gold triforce version that looks a lot like the upcoming Switch Lite. This pack is my favourite since it includes the Pokédex and gold versions, plus one called Glacier, which looks like the clear plastic Game Boy Advance I had when I was ten.

The final pack is $5, and it’s only skins that mimic transparent plastic. Like Glacier, these look stunning, and the amount of detail and design work Fletcher must have put into them is jaw-dropping. Not only do they look real, but you can see fake moulding under the transparent plastic, and there is even a Delta logo that looks like it was stamped onto your iPhone’s motherboard.

During June, Fletcher released another pack full of skins to celebrate pride month. These are the same GBA/GBC skin layout, but they feature fun summer colours or rainbow designs. The proceeds from these skins went towards the Rainbow Road charity during June. He also released a limited edition rainbow transparent skin called ‘Dazzle Gleam’ that looks incredible, but it is only available once a year during June, so we’ll have to wait until next summer to get it.

It’s worth pointing out that the Pride skins all feature Pixel grid overlays, so if you don’t want your screen to emulate the actual screen of the Game Boy Advance, these may not be for you. The free version of Delta Pocket has no overlays, but the $2 Plus package includes a few skins with various Game Boy screen emulation overlays if you want to try some out. They look awesome, and very true to life, but I mostly avoid the overlays since they make the games a little darker.

The final skins are called Delta Duo, and they’re meant for the DS emulator. These look really clean in portrait mode, but they’re only meant for AirPlay when you turn them in landscape. These look just as good as the Delta Pocket skins, and I’m personally hoping Fletcher will make some landscape skins with both screens to be used on the go as well. My favourite one is Catchem FE, named after Ash Ketchum from Pokémon. It’s modelled after a Pokédex and has a really unique look with a faceted d-pad in multiple shades of teal.

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But it’s more than just the layout and the colours. When it comes to Fletcher’s designs, it’s the small details the make them a cut above the rest. The texture on the body of the fake controller looks so real you can almost touch it, and the soft shadows casting both from and on the buttons make them appear hyper-realistic. Don’t even get me started on the screens, which have been given soft round corners, and the shading around the fake bezels makes it almost look like there’s a sheet of glass over the displays.

If you want to download some of Fletcher’s skins, some are available for free, while packs can cost anywhere from $2-$5. He’s created a really fun retro-inspired instruction booklet and product catalogue that can help you learn more about skins as well. All of the skins are available on his Gumroad store. 

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Google isn’t the only phonemaker released updates to kick off a new month. Samsung is pushing August updates to the Galaxy S23 and Galaxy S24 series only days after the Pixel line was blessed.

In this Samsung August update, neither phone series is getting anything special. As far as we can tell from changelogs, these are simply security patches for the month of August. We know that Samsung is working towards an eventual One UI 7 update with Android 15, but for now, we’re seeing bug fixes. There’s also supposed to be a One UI 6.1.1 update at any moment, even if this isn’t it.

For the Galaxy S24 series, be on the lookout for builds S928USQS3AXFJ (S24 Ultra), S926USQS3AXFJ (S24+), and S921USQS3AXFJ (S24). For the Galaxy S23 series, you should see builds of S918USQS4CXG8 (S23 Ultra), S916USQS4CXG8 (S23+), and S911USQS4CXG8 (S23).

Verizon says in release notes that this update “provides the most up to date Android security patches on your device,” while Samsung suggests “The device is protected with improved security” from it. Nice.

To check for Samsung updates, head into Settings>Software update>Download and install.

// Verizon | Samsung

Cheers TC!