‘Beyond Good & Evil 2’ finally gets first trailer at E3 2017

After almost 15 years since the original game, Ubisoft teases Beyond Good & Evil 2 at E3 2017. While not much else is known about the game, we get to anticipate what is coming soon. We can only say soon as we don’t know when Ubisoft plans to release the game and on what platforms it’ll be available on. The cinematic trailer has us following a monkey with a cybernetic hand racing through a futuristic cityscape after scamming a pig mob boss of sorts. The game is going to be a prequel of the original title and it’ll take us to a “stunning new solar system” where you “struggle for freedom and the right to determine your own fate among the stars.”

Source: The Verge

Google Gboard can now predict whole phrases and emojis based on your drawings

Google is boosting the machine learning capabilities of its official keyboard app with its latest update. The Gboard doesn’t just predict the next word you’re about to type, this time it’s working to predict full phrases based on your typing behaviour. This feature is going to be particularly useful to help cut down texting time. Aside from that, you can now also draw an emoji and Gboard will predict what it is you’re drawing. And while it might be faster to just swipe through the emojis, this might be a way for Google to study your drawing habits and get information from that. Android users of the Gboard app are getting the new features now, iOS users will have to wait for a bit.

Source: Android Authority

Microsoft outs its ‘smallest Xbox ever’

It’s been dubbed “Project Scorpio” but now it gets an official debut. Microsoft unveiled at E3 its new Xbox One X, the company’s smallest Xbox to date. While it features looks similar to the Xbox One S, it packs in a lot of power in its smaller package. It comes with 6 teraflops of graphical power (which is more than the PS4 Pro’s 4.2 teraflops), a custom GPU engine that runs at 1172MHz (which is a big jump over the Xbox One’s 853MHz and the Sony’s 911MHz on the PS4 Pro), 1TB of storage, and it’ll ship with an Ultra HD Blu-ray drive for 4K entertainment. It also has liquid-cooled vapor-chamber cooling system, which you usually see on high-end PC gaming cards.

It’ll work with all existing Xbox One accessories and will be backwards compatible with Xbox 360 and Xbox One titles. Existing titles are said to get a noticeable performance boost on the Xbox One. Microsoft will use “super sampling” on this console to make the new games look more amazing on 1080p TVs. Microsoft says there will be 22 “console launch exclusives” coming to the Xbox One X, including Forza Motorsport 7 and Crackdown 3. It’ll debut worldwide on November 7^th and will cost CA$599.

Source: The Verge

OnePlus CEO teases black and white photo sample taken by the OnePlus 5

The camera is looking like a big selling point for the OnePlus 5, as a previous teaser suggests. This time we’re finding out more about the upcoming “flagship killer” and its camera’s capabilities. OnePlus’s CEO Liu ZuoTu uploaded on Weibo a monochrome shot taken by the smartphone. It shows off how similar the dual camera setup of the OnePlus 5 will be with the Huawei P series. From the looks of the image, it’s looking like a pretty promising device, in terms of photography.

While we don’t know the specs of the device yet, some of the rumoured features include a 5.5-inch AMOLED display with 2,560 x 1,440 resolution, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, 6/8GB of RAM, 64/128GB of storage, and it’ll run on Android 7.1.1 Nougat operating system. Camera specs are said to be a 16MP + 16MP setup in the rear as well as a 16MP front camera.

Source: Giz China