Yorkdale Shopping Centre brings pop-up shops and messaging concierge service

For the first time, Yorkdale Shopping Centre is becoming host to some Canadian retailers and first-to-Canada brands with pop-up shops. These are coming just in time for the holiday shopping period. Some of the local brands making its way to the shopping destination include artisan retail concept store BRIKA, gourmet foods brand Nutra-Fruit Cranberry, curiosities and clothing store Drake General Store, and apparel brand Kit and Ace. Jewelry brand ALEX AND ANI will be making its way to Canada for the first time on December 5th at Yorkdale. Same goes for the first North American location of Jamie Oliver’s Jamie’s Italian restaurant.

Aside from offering these brands, Yorkdale is also introducing a new guest services messaging concierge. There will be guest services teams starting November 1^st that you can contact via text or online messaging during regular shopping hours. One of the first of its kind, the Kipsu Messaging service is designed to make both shopping and parking easier for guests.

Xbox beta app for Windows 10 gets social

Microsoft released the latest update for its Xbox beta app on Windows 10. Now it comes with better social sharing tools including a new Facebook friend finder. This feature looks through your Facebook friends list to identify if anyone has Xbox Live accounts that you can add. You just need to link your Facebook account with your Xbox Live account. The game DVR feature gets a boost as well as it now allows you to record yourself narrating as you play, instead of having to do that in a video editing app.

The Xbox store also gets overhauled. It has improved search functionality and code redemption, among its new features.

Source: PCWorld | Download: Microsoft Store (Free)

Re-release of ‘Batman: Arkham Knight’ on the PC happening on October 28

The re-release of the originally buggy Batman: Arkham Knight will be coming to Steam on October 28^th. According to a statement released by Steam, it’ll go back on sale alongside DLC early PC players missed at 1 p.m. Eastern. Some of the content patches it will come with include Photo Mode, Big Head Mode, character selection, and AR challenges. Those who have season passes will also have access to all of the story packs released so far, except for console exclusives.

Source: Steam | Via: Kotaku

‘Sherlock’ Victorian special gets title and release date

Just like a typical Sherlock Holmes mystery, the Victorian-set Sherlock special has been shrouded in, well, mystery. That is until now. The 90-minute special gets a new trailer (as seen above) and is called Sherlock: The Abominable Bride. It’ll be coming to the US via PBS and BBC One in the UK on January 1, 2016. There will also be a theatrical release of the film in select venues around the world.

The one-off special is set in 1890s London and it has been co-written by the series creators Steven Moffatt and Mark Gatiss; who are also now working on the fourth series of Sherlock. BBC One tweeted that the new series will start shooting next spring and it takes the duo into “deeper and darker water than ever before,” according to Gatiss.

Source: BBC One | Via: CNET