This December will be big for Resident Evil fans, as Capcom has scheduled the release of an expansion for the seventh game in the series. Their excitement is now reaching a whole new level, as the publisher has revealed a trailer for the DLC. Not A Hero will feature the beloved protagonist Chris Redfield, and is chronologically placed right after the events of Resident Evil 7.

Not A Hero Left Fans Waiting for Several Months

Fans are looking forward for the release of the DLC, as they have been waiting for it for quite a while. The initial launch date of Not A Hero was set for this past spring, but it got delayed for December 12^th. Koshi Nakanishi, the director of the game, felt the need to explain himself. Resident Evil 7 was a hit game, so the developers needed to take their time and make sure they reach the same quality level on the DLC as well.

In fact, December 12^th will be a great day. Not A Hero will be released for free, together with a different expansion, called End of Zoe, and the special Gold Edition which hasn’t been announced much long ago. Players are probably aware that Not A Hero will deal with the mysteries revolving around the Baker mansion.

Capcom celebrates Resident Evil 7’s success with many DLCs

In case you don’t know anything about the second expansion, Nakanishi made sure he made it clear for everybody. End of Zoe will also keep them in suspense as the story goes on and, in the end, reveals what happened with the daughter of Marguerite and Jack.

After receiving so many praises for Resident Evil 7, Capcom decided to launch plenty of DLCs for the game. Soon after the January release, two special packs made their way, namely Banned Footage Volume 1 and 2. Fortunately for those who didn’t manage to get them, they will be included in the Gold Edition.

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You most probably like your emails to be as practical as possible, and enjoy seeing links inserted directly into your messages, without having to copy and paste them to use them. Usually, you can click on them, and they immediately open in a separate tab. This is available for links but, if you received a phone number or an address, you had to copy it to reuse it. Google decided to change that, and make emails as user-friendly as possible.

Google wants to make Gmail more practical

If you use Gmail Inbox, you should soon be able to access any kind of information directly from your email. Therefore, if someone sends you a message containing a contact, address, or phone number, you will be able to make use of them directly. This means that they will be clickable.

For instance, you receive an email with an address. Google will make it clickable and, if you click on it, it will automatically open in a suitable app, such as Google Maps. This way, you can make sure you know what to head for. Also, if you open an email on your phone, and it contains a phone number, you will be able to call it directly from the message, without having to dial it first.

The changes should be rolled out these days

The same goes for email addresses. If you click on one, you are redirected to a new tab, where you can compose a message for that specific address, and send it from the email you are logged in with. This is incredibly practical, and saves users a lot of time.

Google wasn’t very specific to when these changes should be rolled out. However, they should come as quickly as possible and, in only a few days, they should already be here. Therefore, if you open your email someday during the next days, you should witness the changes.
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Player toxicity is a serious epidemic in online games, which significantly affects the overall game experience. Some gamers choose to play online games just to troll, while others really want to enjoy the matches. In such situations, the latter are affected by those who don’t take the game seriously. The same problem is quite prominent in Overwatch, which made Blizzard take serious measures, and impose some strict rules.

The Overwatch director addressed player toxicity in the latest developer update

Apart from affecting the gaming experience, it seems that player toxicity had other effects as well. Jeff Kaplan, the Overwatch game director, has recently released a developer update. In the video, he admitted this toxic behavior has affected the entire game development. Therefore, this is what prevents them from releasing game updates more often.

The entire video dealt with player toxicity, as the director wanted to comment on this behavior in person. He addressed all players who choose not to play fair, and blamed them not only for destroying the Overwatch community, but also for slowing down game development.

Instead of coming up with more maps, improved graphic features, or heroes, they have to spend a lot of time checking the members of the community in hope of finding those with a bad behavior. As an example, he said that, instead of doing console features, they had to create a better report system to help them find out who’s exhibiting player toxicity.

Many players have been penalized for bad behavior

However, there is a good side in all this. Thanks to this improved report system, they managed to get rid of many toxic players. So far, they penalized a number of 340,000 accounts. Also, they sent emails to about 20,000 players, thanking them for their report and informing them they had taken action against the toxic players in question.

This is a great attitude that Blizzard has adopted, but player toxicity will continue rampaging many online games, including Overwatch. If disciplinary actions do not work to convince trolls to abandon their behavior, maybe the delay on updates and new features should be persuasive enough.

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There are plenty of messaging platforms today, and most of them offer you more or less the same services. However, there is none which allows you to undo the sending of a message. WhatsApp thought about how useful it might be sometimes to delete a message after it had already been sent, so it’s currently testing a feature in the sense.

You will soon be able to delete unpleasant messages which have already been sent

Sometimes, you might regret sending certain messages, and wish the receiver weren’t able to reread them. Soon, WhatsApp will allow you to make such messages disappear, by rolling out a feature which lets you delete texts even after they have already been sent.

WABetaInfo is a Twitter account which offers news regarding the latest WhatsApp beta version, and it has already revealed how the “Delete for everyone” feature is currently under testing. Also, the servers appear to be ready, and able to delete messages which have been already sent. Unfortunately, the feature is not available to the public yet, but it should be rolled out soon.

The feature should soon still be here

The Twitter account has more interesting info regarding notifications. Once you receive a message, you will get a notification. However, if the sender chooses to delete it before you get to read it, the notification will display a text saying the message was deleted.

Therefore, if you are quick enough, you might be able to delete an embarrassing message even before the receiver gets to read it. However, there might be one downside. It’s possible that senders would be able to delete sent messages only five minutes after they are sent.

WhatsApp didn’t reveal anything regarding the date when the feature should be available for everyone. However, rumors related to its testing surfaced as early as January, and now it became available in beta. Therefore, it should be launched as soon as in a few weeks.

DELETE FOR EVERYONE NEWS!
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— WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) September 12, 2017

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Facebook has decided to find a way to monetize more of its apps, so the messaging service WhatsApp will promote several changes. This means the app will be now more suitable for businesses, and it will make communication between them and regular users easier. Apart from helping the users, this should also help the company to earn some money.

A Business app for WhatsApp is a sure way to monetize the service

WhatsApp will soon start rolling out its features for businesses. Now, they will be able to reach their customers easier. For instance, people will be able to place orders directly on the platform, without having to resort to other secondary means. Then, the businesses themselves can keep their clients up-to-date to the order progress.

WhatsApp built the Business app for smaller companies. However, the company is not planning to stop here. Its purpose is to find something which could work on a larger scale, and to be suitable for bigger businesses with more customers.

Communication between businesses and clients should get easier this way

At the moment, this version is available for free. However, as the number of businesses grows, Facebook announced it will start charging them for using the service. As WhatsApp is being used by more than 1 billion people every day, it’s important to help them get into contact with businesses for any kind of help they need.

Maybe some of them already use the platform to communicate with some local firms, but WhatsApp wants to bring it to the next level. The Business app should become the easiest way for people to receive order or flight confirmations, or any other useful information regarding the services offered by the businesses.

To identify the account of a business, look for a badge with a green tick. This means the account is verified. Also, you won’t have to worry about receiving spam messages from these companies. You can always block a conversation from the Main Menu.
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YouTube decided to make a few changes, so the app will suffer a redesign across platform. Therefore, you will soon be able to notice how the desktop and mobile app will sport new features, along with the most easily recognizable upgrade, namely a new logo.

The first thing you are most likely to observe when opening the new YouTube app is the new logo. Google claims this redesign is some sort of a cleaning up, and the new appearance is more suitable for multi-screen. But what should this mean?

The new logo should be more flexible, namely look better on different kinds of screens. This is not only limited to smartphones, desktops, or tablet screens. Also, the new logo is lighter, which makes it more suitable for the mobile version. If you don’t have much space for display, the redesign looks better.

What changes will the YouTube redesign bring?

The desktop version of YouTube received a redesign back in May. However, at the time, this was only a beta version. Now, YouTube took this version and rolled it out for all users. Apart from the dark mode introduced back then, there are several other exciting features.

At the top of the display, in the left corner, you can see a hamburger button. If you click on it, you can hide the left panel. This is great, as it offers you a greater view at your content. The area displaying your recommended videos or what’s new in your subscriptions gets bigger, so you can see more videos listed at a time.

Mobile users shouldn’t get disappointed, as the same redesign came to that version as well. In fact, the mobile version is even more exciting. By swiping left, you can go back to the previous video, and swiping right gets you to the next one in the list. Also, while watching videos full screen, swiping up will bring a series of related videos.

There will be many other exciting changes, such as the ability to watch vertical videos, or Accounts and Library tabs. The update should start rolling out soon, and many of you must have probably noticed the redesign.
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Near the end of 2016, Facebook wanted to make statuses look less boring, so it introduced the feature which allowed users to add colorful backgrounds to their texts. Initially, the feature was available for Android, and then it came to iOS as well. Now, the platform seems to have sworn war on boring text statuses, as it’s planning to introduce the same vivid backgrounds on WhatsApp as well.

Making statuses less boring

WhatsApp had already started changing the classic status update for something more easily to enjoy. At the beginning of this year, it started allowing users to introduce interactive content in their statuses, such as GIFs or funny images.

However, this didn’t turn out too popular among users, but WhatsApp wouldn’t give up. Now, it decided to introduce colorful backgrounds and allow users to design their statuses to look as pretty as they like. They hope users will embrace this feature and come to enjoy and use it more.

The colorful backgrounds feature is currently under testing

At the moment, colorful backgrounds undergo beta testing. After this process is finished, the new feature is most likely to come to Android versions first, and only then on iOS. We cannot tell when the official rollout will take place, but it shouldn’t be long until then.

After the feature arrives, it will be incredibly easy to access. All you have to do is open the Status tab and start typing. Then, you can choose from three other separate tabs. There, you can add emojis to your text, select your favorite font and, in the end, choose from all the colorful backgrounds the one which suits you best.

If you’re curious how it will look like and want to help WhatsApp in its attempt, you can become a tester. After registering, you will receive all the latest features for testing. Also, you can directly send your feedback to the company and help them improve their services.
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Over three years ago, Playdek started a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for a tactical RPG with a special design created by the popular game developer Yasumi Matsuno. After managing to raise $660,000, the dev made an unexpected announcement. The company decided to give up on the game and sell it to Little Orbit.

Unsung Story had a great start on Kickstarter

The game Playdek promised to deliver was called Unsung Story: Tales of the Guardians. On Kickstarter, it set off with a target of $660,000, which it actually managed to raise. However, the project still didn’t work out so well, and the developer had some issues with finishing it.

They set an initial release date for 2015, which has been missed. In the end, Playdek blamed some lack of resources and announced they would put the project on hold until an unspecified date. Since then, they offered no other news until now.

Little Orbit took over the project

The Kickstarter page of the project received an update from Little Orbit, mentioning they are now in charge of the game development. This is a new beginning, so the new developer plans a fresh start for Unsung Story. They have also reviewed all the comments the project had received, and analyzed all the materials already available.

In the end, they came to a conclusion regarding how the game development should be done. Backers want a focus on the original single player game which inspired this project, and are big fans of the design presented during the campaign, namely the one created by Matsuno.

What Little Orbit have to do now is deal with the years of work done by Playdek, and bring the project into a final form. Regarding Matsuno, we cannot tell if the company will continue collaborating with him. If they want to satisfy the fans and backers, it would be advisable for them to do so.
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Nobody likes having a device suddenly shut down while using, and this is why most of them can tell us when they are beginning to lose battery. However, this might be problematic if you’re using electronics which connect via Bluetooth. This is why Android finally decided it’s good to know when your Bluetooth devices require charging. Therefore, it might soon embed a system which tells you how much battery they have left.

Android doesn’t let you know when your Bluetooth device is running out of battery

All electronic devices come with a mechanism which warns you when their battery won’t last for long. This way, you can find out when you have to go look for a charger and plug them in. However, working with tools which connect via Bluetooth is a bit more complicated. They can warn you when they’re running out of battery, but the device you connect them to usually doesn’t do it.

Android doesn’t have such a capability. Those phones with an Open Source Project Android will probably never be able to deal with such a feature. These include Nexus, Pixel phones, and even Sony or Motorola. However, this might be possible to add on other phones, such as Samsung. In fact, several third-party apps offer you this feature.

A new Android version might bring the feature as well

Now, Android wants to make it possible without using any third-party apps. There have been several changes in the Open Source code which now include battery levels for such devices. This means that all developers for all kind of devices and Android versions will have a uniform way of introducing this feature.

However, we cannot tell when it will be done. What is for sure is the fact that this feature won’t be included in Android 8.0. The code for this version has already been done, and no new features are likely to be added at this point. However, an 8.1 feature might be here soon, so we won’t probably have to wait that long for a battery feature.
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Atlus has just announced another game in the Persona series will get an anime adaptation. We are talking, of course, about the latest game in the series, Persona 5. The anime will be titled Persona 5 The Animation, and will be launched in Japan next year.

Persona 5 is an exciting RPG continuing the adventures of The Protagonist

Persona 5 is an RPG developed by Atlus for PS3 and PS4. It first appeared in Japan in September 2016, and reached the rest of the world in April 2017. Although titled Persona 5, chronologically, the game is actually the sixth title in the series.

Since it is a Japanese video game, the action takes place in Tokyo, and looks at the adventures of the main character called simply The Protagonist. He has been transferred to Shujin Academy after receiving a false accusation and ending up on probation.

As you probably know, all characters have to battle unclean forces by using their Personas, which are supernatural manifestations of their psyches. Apart from RPG elements, the game also has players explore dungeons or simulate social situations.

Atlus is quite secretive with the anime teaser

Atlus has already released a trailer, but revealed no other details regarding the action of the anime. As other games in the series already have anime adaptations, the new movie will feature the original voice cast.

Unfortunately, Atlus has region-blocked the teaser on YouTube. This also makes it hard for us to tell if the anime will be released in other regions as well. However, as the time comes, the company will probably offer more information on the upcoming animation.

Persona 5 The Animation is a different anime from Persona 5 The Animation: The Day Breakers. This is only a prequel, and comes as a short movie, not a full animation. Therefore, it’s quite likely that it will follow the plotline present in the video game.
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