Apple iPhone 9/iPhone XC gets pictured ahead of official launch

We’re not quite sure how Apple is approaching the naming convention for the new iPhones coming out at tomorrow’s launch but we seem to be getting a better look at one of the new phones. The “entry-level” 6.1-inch model that’s being called the iPhone 9 or iPhone XC (depending on who you ask) has been spotted in the wild. The back of an iPhone has been pictured (as you see above) and it looks to sport a single camera lens that looks larger than the one on the iPhone 8, so people are inferring that this must be one of the new phones. We’re going to hear more about this device and others tomorrow, September 12 at 10 a.m. PDT.

Source: GSMArena

Sony offers free copy of ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’ to those who pre-order the Xperia XZ3 in Europe

Sony is looking for ways to boost its smartphone sales and one of its newest ideas is to bundle a popular video game with it. If you’re in Europe and you pre-order Sony’s upcoming Xperia XZ3, you get a free copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 for the PlayStation 4. The phone will ship on October 5, while the game will be coming a week after as Call of Duty launches globally on October 12. The game will reach you as a digital download. 

Source: GSMArena

Microsoft doubles down on Canadian investment with downtown Toronto HQ announcement

Microsoft Canada announced it will move its Canadian headquarters to a new space in the heart of downtonw Toronto in 2020. The new facility on Bay Street will be located at the new CIBC Square and will span four floors in the 132,000 square-foot space. 

The future home will also include a new state-of-the-art Microsoft Technology Centre that will serve partners, customers as well as a learning centre for school-aged youth. The move is just one of a series of significant investments Microsoft is making. These investments will enable an expansion of Microsoft's Canadian operations, including increasing staff, modernizing its real estate, and growing its research lab in Montreal that is focused on artificial intelligence. 

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Some Nintendo Switch games don’t support cloud saves

If you have a Nintendo Switch, we’re pretty sure one of the things you love about it is you can save your game data to the cloud. This means, if for some reason you need to let go of the console or it freezes up on you, you can pick up where you left off with your games. Unfortunately, Game Informer discovered that some Switch games don’t support cloud save. They named Pokemon Let’s Go Eeevee & Pikachu and Splatoon 2. Nintendo reasons that these games don’t support the feature because of things like item trading and “fairness” when it comes to online play.

Nintendo says, “The vast majority of Nintendo Switch games will support Save Data Cloud backup. However, in certain games this feature would make it possible to, for example, regain items that had been traded to other players, or revert to a higher online multiplayer ranking that had been lost. To ensure fair play, Save Data Cloud backup may not be enabled for such games. To ensure that Save Data Cloud backups cannot be used to unfairly affect online multiplayer rankings, the feature will not be enabled in Splatoon 2.” While this seems reasonable, we’re not sure if everyone will be happy with this news. What do you think?