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Electronic Arts has confirmed that it’s shifting its popular Madden NFL football series to the Frostbite graphics engine. The company revealed this as part of its recent earnings release. It confirmed in the material information shared with investors that starting with Madden 18, this franchise is going to be powered by the Frostbite graphics engine.

EA has previously used this graphics engine for games like Battlefield 1 and Star Wars: Battlefront. Frostbite was created by Battlefield developer DICE and EA now maintains an engineering team that’s dedicated to updating and maintaining these tools.

EA promises that the shift to the Frostbite engine for Madden is going to provide “major visual advancements and new gameplay experiences.” It says that this is going to excite dedicated Madden players who have stuck with the franchise for a very long time.

The publisher first said back in 2013 that it would shift most of its internal development to DICE’s tools. EA’s sports franchises like FIFA, NHL, and Madden lagged behind primarily due to their annual release timelines and for giving more time to EA engineers so that they could update the physics modeling in Frostbite to properly handle sports simulations.

FIFA 17 finally shifted to Frostbite last year and fans of the franchise liked what they saw even though the title held on to many of the animations that EA Sports developed for previous games in the series. That’s how it’s likely going to be for Madden as well but at least Madden 18 is going to bring a visible graphics improvement. It remains to be seen if that’s going to be one that fans like.

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Game piracy is next to impossible on the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 but if you’ve ever made an account on Xbox360ISO.com or PSPISO.com then it’s time that you should think about changing your passwords, particularly if you use the same password elsewhere on the internet. Both piracy forums have been hacked as a result of which passwords of more than 2.5 million users have been leaked online.

According to reports, the sites were hacked by an unknown attacker in late 2015 but details of the hack are just now becoming public. User data of more than 2.5 million people has been leaked. This includes passwords, usernames, IP addresses, and email addresses.

It’s said that the operator of both websites only used the MD5 hashing system to protect passwords and it’s notoriously easy to break that. If you’ve never heard of these forums before, they existed for one reason only and that was to share pirated copies of games for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation Portable.

The community went far beyond that, though, and discussed general topics as well so it’s not like all those who have been impacted by this hack were involved in the distribution of pirated games.

Details about the hack are slim at this point in time so it’s unclear what the hacker’s motives here could have been. There’s no mention of any ransom being demanded in exchange for the data being spared. Perhaps we might get to hear more about this in the coming weeks.

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If someone were to ask you to list some of the most memorable advertising campaigns ever launched by a technology company, Apple’s “Get a Mac” campaign will be right up there with the best of them. The campaign featured actor Justin Long as the “Mac Guy” who came off as cool and trendy against the nerdy and flabbergasted Windows PC guy. That campaign ended a long time ago and you’ll now start seeing the Apple Mac Guy sell PCs for Huawei.

Huawei is one of the biggest tech companies in China. It already has a big presence in several markets across the globe but the company still has some work to do before it can be as big in the United States as Apple and Samsung.

This latest ad campaign is an effort to leverage a familiar face and sell some PCs in the process. Justin Long appeared in his first Huawei ad at the Consumer Electronics Show 2017 last month and two new spots titled The Interview and The Audition have now been released on YouTube. The aim is to sell the Windows 10-powered Huawei MateBook.

According to reports, Huawei wanted Long to be more upfront with his previous work as Apple’s Mac Guy but it’s said that the actor and the ad agency both convinced Huawei to tone down the message so now he only says “I have a tonne of experience in tech” while trying to sell you a MateBook.

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GoPro’s Karma drone is back on sale, after having been yanked from shelves over a flaw that could literally see it fall uncontrollably from the skies. The troubled camera-quadcopter was recalled back in November 2016, after GoPro identified a fault with the battery latching mechanism. While that might not seem significant, it was enough to cause a handful of the … Continue reading

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