Fan-made ‘Phoenix Rising’ is a free ‘Pokemon’-inspired game you can play now

If you’re a huge fan of the Pokemon franchise, you might want to check out this new fan-made game. Phoenix Rising is an episodic game made with RPG Maker XP and Pokemon Essentials engine. It’s a free game that will get its subsequent releases announced in the future. The demo a.k.a. the first episode that was just released is also free. The developers hope that by keeping the game free, not asking for donations, and having an official site, among other things, will keep The Pokemon Company won’t issue a Cease & Desist order. The company is known to shut down fan-made projects. Now whether the precautions taken by this game’s developers is enough, we should find out soon enough.

Source: Comic Book

Two French teenagers get arrested for defacing popular music videos on Vevo’s YouTube page

Last month, Vevo’s YouTube account got hacked and had defaced a number of popular music videos. Now, two 18-year-old French citizens have been arrested in Paris in relation to this incident. The Paris Prosecutor’s Office, together with the Manhattan’s DA’s office (where Vevo is based), identified the two suspects as “Nassim B.” and “Gabriel K.A.B.” and are known by their respective online handles of “Prosox” and “Kuroi’ish.” The two have been charged with six and five criminal counts, respectively.

Authorities claim the two gained access to Vevo’s YouTube account to change the thumbnail images, video titles, and descriptions of videos like Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito” and other popular videos from the likes of Taylor Swift, Shakira, Selena Gomez, to name a few. Vevo has since removed all these changes.

Source: Variety

Nokia has ‘some new stuff to share’ at May 29 event

It’s been less than a couple of weeks since Nokia launched the X6, but it seems HMD Global still has more Nokia news to share. The company is hosting a May 29^th event in Moscow at 7:40 p.m. (12:40 p.m. ET, 9:40 a.m. PT), which will also be live streamed. According to HMD Global’s Chief Product Officer Juho Sarvikas, they have “some new stuff to share.” The tweet about the event included the hashtag #ChargedUp, so it could be something battery-related. The event date is almost here so we don’t have to speculate for too long.

Source: Android Police

PayPal will soon support single sign-in across all Google services

As it stands, you need to input your PayPal credentials separately every time you make a payment on any Google service. But that’s about to change. In a blog post, PayPal says it’s working on “deepening” its relationship with Google and one of the ways they plan to do that is allow for a single sign-in into all Google services. This means, if you input your PayPal details into YouTube, for example, these can be accessed on all the other services without needing to login again. There is no specific timeline yet for when this feature will come. But PayPal says “soon.” One other thing this method would allow is to let users choose PayPal as an option for peer-to-peer payments using Google Pay Send.