Author: Henry R. Lares

Henry Lares is still early into his career as tech reporter but has already had his work published in many major publications including Tech Crunch and the Huffington Post.  In regards to academics, Henry earned an engineering degree from Apex Technical School. Henry has a passion for emerging technology and covers upcoming products and breakthroughs in science and tech.

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Fortnite Has Come with Fortbyte #91 and a Hidden Location when You Load Screen #4 

The two upcoming skins for the item shop, Sandstorm, and Scimitar haven’t been coming with something hidden. But we have found out that Week 4 loading screen is hiding something after all. The two Fortbytes that were dropped in the game are Fortbyte #90, and Fortbyte #91, and the last has an unknown location when you load screen #4.  If you are curious for the map, guide and position in the Forbyte #91 read on.

Fortbyte #91

If you want to see the loading screen, you must complete the full four weeks of challenges. You have the free challenges and the Battle Pass Challenges. After you have completed the entire tasks, loading screen #4 will open.  You will see that what you encounter isn’t so exciting, but wait! The clue isn’t hidden in the image that shows us two characters in the desert area, but in the game description from your locker. The story sounds like that: “Sandstorm and Scimitar race to the Keyboard King ATM, and the winner always gets paid.”

Starting with this description, you will know that you must go to Keyboard King, which is a store in Paradise Palms. You will find the ATM on the western side of the location, exactly near to the respawn van from the main street. You can collect by interacting with it or by destroying it to see the Fortbyte floating where the ATM was once.

Take note that the hidden battle stars that will appear in the loading screen are challenges that need to be complete for access them. But in Fortbyte #91 you can get it without worrying about completing the other challengers for building your Fortybe collections. After collecting it, a new piece of Fortbyte puzzle will appear in the challenges tab.

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The Elder Scrolls 6 is being worked on again after trademark lawsuit delayed it

The Elder Scrolls 6 has been apparently involved in some sort of lawsuit regarding a trademark. This lawsuit was allegedly postponing the built of the game. However, the issues have now been solved, which means that the development of the next Elder Scrolls is continuing as expected.

The lawsuit issue came around because of a copyright problem between Bethesda, the publisher behind The Elder Scrolls and an author of a book series. It has to do with the book series by the name of ‘Redfall’ and the game’s next title which is the same.

This lawsuit could have taken years to resolve in court, and it would have meant that the gaming studio might have been strained to completely drop the title of Redfall in favor of another one. They could have also worked something out, and apparently, that is what they did.

Zenimax, the mother company released a statement which said that they and the book store have amicably solved the trademark issue concerning the Redfall trademark.

According to a report by Critical Hit.net, the issue was most likely cleared with some sort of pay off to license the trademark for use in The Elder Scrolls title.

More details and information will be disclosed during the E3 1029 event, which starts on June the 11th.

Regarding the release period of the next Elder Scrolls game, the majority of fans and players seem to believe that the title will launch sometime before the grand release of the next generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft. This means a waiting of at least a few years.

For now, you can play The Elder Scrolls Online and get used with Hammerfell, the home of Redguard.

As it is widely known, Bethesda registers a new trademark for every title in its game series, such as Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim. Many people were excited to read about the trademark by the name of Redfall, unaware of the fact that it is a book series name before becoming a probable name for the next The Elder Scrolls title.

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Super ​Smash Bros. Ultimate Gets a New Update With Fresh Improvements

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate version 3.1.0 is now ready to roll out. Besides the recently revealed fighter changes, the update comes with a couple of brand new Amiibo features, and a virtual reality (VR) mode that is compatible with the Lavo VR Goggles.

​Nintendo’s new patch for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is scheduled to go live this week. The company has announced that the update will have a variety of adjustments to the fighters, but it seems like there will also be a couple of new customizations rolling out, including the Labo VR support.

​The in-game notification for the 3.1.0 update was announced before of the patch’s launch on the Twitter official account of the company. As said by the statement, the update will launch at 6 p.m. PT, which is 9 p.m. ET on May the 30th, which is 2 a.m. BST​ May the 31st. The announcement read that the update will support a VR mode that will offer players ‘a whole new perspective on the Smash action.’ In order to play this mode, you have to own the Toy-con VR Googles from the Labo VR set.

Besides the VR mode, the 3.1.0 update seems to be adding a few new Amiibo features. As said by a leaked report, players will be enabled to send their Amiibo characters on ‘journeys to train’ and make them fight against other Amiibo combatants. I addition, the Battle Arenas are open to Amiibo fighters as well.

Aside from the brand new update, a new Spirit Board event has been unveiled. The event is dubbed ‘Super Smash Sisters’, and it includes heroines from an array of various games, such as Legendary Spirits Pya, Mythra, and Krystal. Other than that, players will now have the ability to unlock an all-new Spirit Peachette. The Super Smash Sisters started on May the 31st and will end on June the 5th.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was released for Nintendo Switch back in December 2018 and has rapidly gained fame thus become one of the best-selling games on the gaming market.

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iOS 12 Jailbreak Update – Version 12., 12.3 Security Issues Fixed

A jailbreak that can function on iOS versions 12.2 and 12.3 has not been created yet. However, security researcher Dany Lisiansky says that these iOS versions still feature weaknesses that Apple still didn’t fix.

The security researcher has previously identified numerous vulnerabilities in the 12.2 version of iOS, but the tech giant behind the OS has since patched the glitch. However, Lisiansky is positive that a fully functioning iOS 12 jailbreaking tool will soon be created, according to Business Times.

Lisiansky’s confidence comes as a blunt opposition to prior statements of one of the most renown security researchers in the community, @Pwn20wnd. He stated that the actual iOS jailbreak would be the last development of this kind because Apple is elevating its security protocols with their every update of the operating system.

The upcoming iOS 13 is anticipated to level up its security system as Apple is making efforts in finding the vulnerabilities Lisiansky talked about. At the moment, there are two best jailbreak solutions to unlock an Apple device that comes with a pre-installed 12.2 version into its system: the iOS 12 jailbreak unc0ver app, and the Chimera 1.0.7.

@Pwn20wnd said that those users who want to jailbreak their device should not update their device’s OS to the 12.2 variant because even the best professionals within the hacking communities are having a hard time defeating its system. The researcher announced that it would take some time before a fully functioning iOS 12 jailbreak will roll out. Even though it looks he might be right; numerous developers are currently searching in private to discover the vulnerabilities and opened doors that Apple has not yet find in the iOS 12.

The reveal of the new iOS 13 will take place at the upcoming WWDC 2019 event, scheduled to take place in June. Of course, both developers and users are anxiously awaiting to see what this new update will feature. If there are any weak points, there is no question that developers like @Pwn20wnd and Dany Lisianksy will exploit it, even though the tech giant behind iOS 13 is working on such glitches and will quickly act upon it.

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MX Player New Update is planning to Add Assist for Video Games

Recently people started speculating that video player and OTT platform MX Player may soon be able to play Android games. The MX Player is a video player developed by J2 Interactive, a South Korean company and the OTT platform is owned by Times Internet, India’s largest media conglomerate. The platform is available outside India only as an offline video player.

On LinkedIn Times Internet posted a job opportunity for a games engineer with experience in Cocos2d-x. Cocos2d-x is an open-source software framework with a platform dependent layer. It can be used to build games, apps and other cross interactive programs. Cocos2d-x is an easy-to-use open source 2D very popular game engine. The assumption is that MX player will test the water with Android first as the job description is requiring “experience in building Android apps” besides “familiarity with Android app development”. Another demand is the knowledge to “integrate and optimize games built using Cocos2d-x framework into the MX Player Android app” as well as the expertise to build “platform capabilities to support ease of game development and publication on the MX Player platform.”

All this is leading us to believe that MX Player is planning on developing a game store with options of publishing later on.

With a large install base of 350 million users in India and 600 million users internationally it seems that MX Player is looking forward to maintain its progress and continue its growth.

In recent times late gaming seems to become more popular for these types of platforms and MX Player’s approach is different compared to Hotstar and Voot that are already streaming e-sports events. Hotstar is even planning to expand and get Twitch-like features in the future.

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