Montreal-made Jurassic World Alive AR-game passes 10 Million downloads

Ludia Inc. created the engagin Jurassic World Alive game which uses maps and location as well as augmented reality A.R. to find and capture virtual dinosaurs and place them in real-world locations using an iPhone or iPad camera. The app has received over 10 million downloads just as the Montreal-based app developer unlocked a rare Brachiosaurus dinosaur that can be found at specified Apple Retail stores.

Jurassic World Alive is available in 145 countries and 8 languages, and is the fastest growing player base in Ludia’s 11-year history with 6M downloads in just the first 10 days of launch. ARKit brings the prehistoric creatures to life in our real world.

YouTube finally brings dark mode to Android

After coming to iOS in March, dark mode is finally hitting the YouTube app on Android. This feature, according to the company has been one of the most requested features on the app. Once your app has updated, you’ll see the new “Dark theme” automatically applied along with a pop-up appearing at the bottom of the screen to alert you about the new feature. You also have an option to turn it off and dismiss the prompt. If you want to toggle it back on, you can just head to Settings and then head into the General section. Underneath the Digital Wellbeing’s “Remind me to take a break” feature, you’ll see the new Dark theme toggle.

This dark mode is more of a gray theme than straight out black and it changes all the previously white portions of the app into the darker shade. This includes the app’s background, settings, search pages, as well as the compact, minimized video player. Channels will still retain their colorful app bars but the biggest change will come to the video pages where the video player will stay black before it fully loads.

Source: 9to5Google

‘Kingdom Hearts 3’ promises over 80 hours of content

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If you want to get the full Kingdom of Hearts 3 experience, prepare to spend over 80 hours playing the game. If you’re sticking with the main campaign, you’ll get around 40 to 50 hours of gameplay. Now, if you want to play the mini-games, Geek.com reports that you better be prepared to play almost double of that. Some of the mini games you can play include a Ratatouille-based cooking game and "20 different old-school Tiger Toys/Game & Watch style 2D side scrolling games based on Mickey cartoons from the 1930s and 40s." Kingdom Hearts 3 is set to come out on January 29, 2019 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

YouTube’s web player now adapts to vertical videos

The YouTube web player is no longer discriminating against unusual aspect ratios (like vertical videos). Clips that don’t fit the default 16:9 frame will no longer appear with black bars. Instead these videos will be optimized and stretched to appear bigger. Of course, this one let you forget that you’re watching vertical videos but at least the experience will be less jarring. The change is rolling out gradually to all users.

Source: GSMArena