Assassin’s Creed Odyssey First Impressions: Worth Taking a Leap Ubisofthas confirmed that there will be no new Assassin’s Creed game next year, which means the Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has to hold the ceiling until the next installment in the series shows up in 2020. With Odyssey out now, many are wondering whether Ubisoft has managed to deliver a game that can hold up to that amount of scrutiny and pressure. Or isAssassin’s Creed Odysseyjust an incremental expansion of last year’sAssassin’s Creed Origins?...

Bombay HC Wants To Censor Netflix, Amazon Prime Content To Cut Nudity, Violence The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has vehemently disapproved the depiction of nudity, violence and vulgarity in TV shows and web series available on content platforms such asNetflix, Hotstar andAmazon Prime Video. The court has sent a notice to the information and broadcasting ministry, directing the officials to set up a pre-screening committee to assess all content before it goes online....

Facebook Setting Up Task Force for 2019 Lok Sabha Elections in India Facing the uphill task of tacklingelection-related interferenceon its platform as India gets ready forpolls next year, Facebook said today it is establishing a task force comprising “hundreds of people” in the country to prevent bad actors from abusing its platform. “With the 2019 elections coming, we are pulling together a group of specialists to work together with political parties,” Richard Allan, Vice President of Policy for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) told the media here....

Facebook Testing Voice Commands for Messenger As more and more new users come online, companies are trying to build capabilities to tackle problems such as different levels of literacy – digital and otherwise – and multiple languages. One way to do this is voice interactions, which makes it easier for new users unfamiliar with the internet. You can see this everywhere from phones to smart homes to smart speakers and the increasing use of voice-based assistants....

Fortnite Creators, Players Can Now Earn Real Cash For Gaining Followers Epic Games has announced a new program called‘Support-A-Creator Event’which allows Fortnite content creators on all platforms to earn money. As part of the event, fans and followers of a creator can support them by spending V-bucks, Fortnite’s in-game currency. Epic Games’Support-A-Creator Eventis now live and will continue till December 31st. Creators who want to receive support from followers will have to register for the event first and fulfill certain criteria....

Google Could Soon End Chrome Support on Android Jelly Bean Devices Google is planning to drop support for Chrome on devices running Android Jelly Bean. A commit spotted in the code of Chrome for Android suggests that Chrome will no longer get updates on devices running any build of Android Jelly Bean, which includes Android 4.1, 4.1 and 4.3. A report from XDA-Developers states that the minimum API level required to run Chrome on an Android device will soon be raised to Android 4....

Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL: Everything We Know So Far One of the highly anticipated events of the year – the annual Made by Google launch event – isaround the cornerwith a host of announcements likely to be thrown at us by Google. The biggest attraction are thePixel 3 smartphoneswhich we are already familiar with. Over the last several months, there has been a great deal of noise around Pixel 3, thanks to the incessant leaksincluding the sale of allegedly stolen shipments in Europe....