Microsoft has outed the minimum required specs for Windows 10 Mobile, and those will really surprise you. The new mobile OS edition is really scraping the bottom of the low-end barrel here, and the required specs are even lower in some aspects than what Windows Phone 8.1 demanded. For starters, Windows 10 Mobile will be able to run on devices …

Retailer GameStop has launched a new limited-time promotion called “Cash for Games.” Now through July 26, GameStop will pay more than ever in cash values for select items, including PlayStation 4 consoles and high-profile Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Wii U games. For example, GameStop will pay you $200 cash for a standard PS4. This is the regular figure for …

Ubisoft Montreal director and scriptwriter Corey May has left the company, taking a new job as narrative director at independent game studio Certain Affinity, the Austin, Texas-based company announced today. May spent close to a decade at Ubisoft Montreal, where he oversaw the narrative direction for all of the developer’s projects. This includes the original Assassin’s Creed and its sequels, as …

A teaser posted by Huawei lists September 2nd as the date when it will “bring you a taste of the flagship flagship.” According to those in the know, the manufacturer is referring to the Huawei Mate 8. The event taking place on that date in early September will be held in Berlin. There is plenty of interest in the Mate …

We don’t know if it’s Apple’s iPhone popularity as a take-anywhere camera to blame, or people simply don’t care, but there’s hardly been a more annoying trend in this digital age than vertical videos. The smallish iPhones before the 6 and 6 Plus were so conducive to hold and operate with one hand, that the majority of amateur video was …

The Apple iPhone 6 Plus is the first iPhone to come with optical image stabilization (OIS), and this feature brings quite the noticeable difference when you compare images between the iPhone 6 Plus and the iPhone 6, which lacks optical stabilization. The effect OIS has is of less blur and a sharper, better-looking image – something particularly well noticeable in …

Kyocera has just announced a new entry-level Android smartphone, the Hydro Wave. The smartphone will be available in the US over at T-Mobile and MetroPCS, T-Mobile’s prepaid subsidiary. The handset comes with pretty basic hardware, such as 5-inch display running a resolution of 540 by 960 pixels at a PPI of 220, a 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 chipset paired …

We’ve all been hearing and writing about the growth of Chinese companies, and now, after we’ve witnessed having seven of the top phone makers be from China (the only exceptions are Apple from the United States, and Samsung and LG from Korea), financial reports for the first half of the year show that those companies are only solidifying their positions. …

Last year’s popular mobile game Threes made a lot of money with a $3 price tag, but releasing a free version last month proved to be a great business decision for the developer. Asher Vollmer, creator of Threes, revealed on Twitter that the free version has doubled the game’s revenue. Making money solely from advertisements, the free game charted nearly …

  It brought him some extra spending money and a surprising amount of notoriety, butHockey Night in Canada‘s chief play-by-play man Jim Hughson doesn’t miss his side gig. Calling sports video games, like EA Sports’ fantastically successful and increasingly realistic NHL series, can make a man famous and whip his mind to mush. “At one point I was doing the …