Google is bringing some Android games to Windows PCs in a move the company announced in December, while providing few details about how that would actually work. Now Google has launched a limited beta of Google Play Games for Windows. How limited? It’s only available for beta testers in South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. […]
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Lilbits: Facebook abandons facial recognition, Linux 5.15 released, Netflix games, Microsoft Edge for Linux, and more
Facebook is giving up on using face recognition in its app a decade after introducing the feature, and in the coming weeks Facebook’s parent company Meta says it will delete facial recognition templates for a billion different people. In other recent tech news from around the web, we have a deep-dive into performance of the […]
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Lilbits 363: Tired of Pixel 3a leaks yet?
Rumor has it that Google will officially launch the Google Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL on May 7th, the first day of this year’s Google I/O developer conference. They’re expected to be cheaper than the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3XL, while offering the same stellar cameras as their higher-priced counterparts. And honestly, there’s not […]
Mario Kart Tour coming to smartphones by 2019
Nintendo’s handheld game consoles may be some of the most popular in the world, but the company has taken a cautious approach to smartphone gaming, launching its first mobile games for iOS an Android in 2016. There are still only a handful of Nintendo games in the App Store and Play Store, including Super Mario […]
SEGA Forever brings classic games to Android, iOS for free(ish)
SEGA has been making video games since the 1970s, with some of the company’s most iconic titles and franchises launching for SEGA’s own line of game consoles. The company doesn’t make game consoles anymore. But it still has a huge back catalog of great games… and now it’s bringing some of them to smartphones and […]
Sony to bring a half dozen PlayStation games to mobile next year
Nintendo isn’t the only game console company getting into the mobile space. Earlier this year Sony announced it was forming a new group called ForwardWorks aimed at bringing PlayStation content to mobile devices. Now the Wall Street Journal reports that Sony’s PlayStation division “plans to release five or six smartphone games” by March, 2018. There’s […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens prequel game now on mobile devices
A new Star Wars based battle role-playing game (RPG) based on the events just after the death of Emperor Palpatine in Return of the Jedi has just hit mobile devices. Star Wars: Uprising is available as a free-to-play download for both iOS and Android. It’s an RPG where players can create a character that helps lead […]
Nintendo games are coming to smartphones
Right now if you want to play a Super Mario Bros or Mario Kart game on your smartphone or tablet, you’ll have to fire up an emulator. That will change this fall, when Nintendo will officially begin offering games for smart mobile devices for the first tame. The Japanese game company has announced a partnership […]