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sony sets a date for the ps4 I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update sony announced that its playstation 4 game console will be arriving november 15th in the u.s. followed by a european launch date of november 29th the news comes out of the gamescom gaming conference in Germany where it was also announced that the PlayStation Vita now is fifty dollars cheaper with a price tag of two hundred dollars and Microsoft announced 23 games will be available when the xbox one launches in November including battlefield 4 and call of duty ghosts keep in mind you won't be able to play xbox 360 discs in the Xbox one so if you're planning on getting the new system you might want to take advantage of an Amazon promotion going on right now if you trade in certain xbox 360 games to Amazon the company will give you fifty dollars for the used game as long as you put that money to buying the same game on the xbox one for ten dollars more but you can only do it once so better be an old game that you really like to play after three years we have a new tivo and it's called the romeo yeah they gave it a tragic name and spelling but it does have some cool advanced features like being able to send recorded shows two other rooms without buying an additional DVR the romeo boxes let you tap into many online video options like Netflix and YouTube without switching the TV input it also works like a chromecast the cast button on netflix and youtube apps will play a video from your smartphone to the TV and of course there are many tuners tons of storage for recording shows and faster processors for navigating and launching the apps there are three models it starts at two hundred dollars but with tivo you still need to sign up for the service it's fifteen dollars a month or five hundred dollars for life but you can read the full review at cnet com Barnes & Noble is changing its mind and announced it will still make color nook tablets the strategy reversal was just announced by the president of barnes & noble and he said a new nook will be coming out in time for the holidays I got a few app updates for you to check out youtube is changing the look of its app and it added picture-in-picture option so you can shrink a video to be smaller in the lower right corner while you browse for other videos to watch you can also browse and play video playlists which is handy if you like to use YouTube for listening to music google bought the traffic app waze and now the two are combining information if you use Google Maps for Mobile on Android and iOS you'll see real-time traffic incident reports from ways users and the Waze app has been updated to include Google search and the ways map editor includes Google Street View and satellite imagery that your tech news update agreed upon more details at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey