In-app purchases, Steam Machine, and 'Avatar': 90 Seconds on The Verge
In-app purchases, Steam Machine, and 'Avatar': 90 Seconds on The Verge
2014-01-15
it's Wednesday January 15 2014 I'm
Nathan cycrin i've been using travel
versions of products to make me feel
toddler and then the early to finish
this is 90 seconds on the verge after a
lengthy legal battle Apple has settled
with the FTC over in-app purchases as a
result of insufficient parental controls
the company is required to refund
customers who have been billed for
faulty charges paying out a total of
thirty 2.5 million dollars to thirty
seven thousand different customers the
settlement requires Apple to modify its
billing practices to allow for more
explicit consent out of all the steam
machines soon to be available alien
wears is perhaps most exciting and now
we finally know when it will arrive
today at valves steam dev days
conference the company announced that
alienware steam machine will launch in
September valve also announced it will
be making some changes to its steam
controller by ditching the touchscreen
and simply making it a touch pass the
touchpad will utilize ghost mode which
shows an image of your finger on the
screen when touching the pad allowing
you to press virtual buttons and finally
some old friends are returning to
Pandora avatar director james cameron
has signed sam worthington and zoe
saldana to return for the next two
sequels in the trilogies Stephen Lang
who played the brutish military
commander will also return but it's
still unknown how considering spoiler
alert he died in the first film the
first avatar sequel is scheduled for
release in December of 2016 and that's
it for today's top stories coming up
tomorrow the porn industry revert back
to 240p because 4k is look no no thank
you yeah look yucky blah
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