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Daily tech news & jokes to have a good start for 28/11/2022

Adam Gelencser
4 min readNov 28, 2022

Quote of the day:

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Anonymous

Jokes of the day:

What’s the advantage of living in Switzerland? Well, the flag is a big plus.

I’ve got a really good UDP joke to tell you but I don’t know if you’ll get it.

Top 10 news of the day:

Cyber Monday PS5, PS4 Deals 2022: Best Discounts On Games, PS Plus, Controllers, SSDs and More

The best PlayStation Cyber Monday offers — Looking for the best PS5 and PS4 Cyber Monday deals? This year’s Black Friday m…

Looking for the best PS5 and PS4 Cyber Monday deals? This year’s Black Friday may well be done and dusted, but the savings are only just getting started and we’re still busy tracking all the best offers money can buy. Below, you’ll find the best deal… [1423 chars]

Ghost Spin-Off Campaign in Development at Infinity Ward

Infinity Ward is planning to release a spin-off campaign story starring the very mysterious Simon ‘Ghost’ Riley.

A plan for an origin campaign is underway at Infinity Ward, fleshing out the story behind the masked enigma, Simon ‘Ghost’ Riley — giving some base to the characters’ more low-key, superficial appearance. Prior to the release of Modern Warfare 2, Inf… [2102 chars]

Marvel’s Midnight Suns contains “65,000 lines of voice dialogue”

Firaxis’ Marvel’s Midnight Suns contains “something like 65,000 lines of voice dialogue”. In a “special message from Fi…

Firaxis’ Marvel’s Midnight Suns contains “something like 65,000 lines of voice dialogue”. In a “special message from Firaxis” posted to YouTube, the team outlined their favourite aspects of the upcoming tactical role playing game, and it included con… [1095 chars]

Gran Turismo 7 CEO says the team is “looking into” a PC port

Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi has revealed that Sony is “considering” porting the racing series to PC. In an i…

Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi has revealed that Sony is “considering” porting the racing series to PC. In an interview with GTPlanet (thanks, VGC), Yamauchi was asked if he would “consider” following the recent trends set by Sony first-party… [1211 chars]

Missbrisolo’s skintight Zero Suit Samus cosplay perfectly encapsulates the character’s fitness in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

We recently took notice of Missbrisolo’s Instagram page where she can be observed cosplaying as a number of different characters. One of the characters that she’s cosplayed is Zero Suit Samus from the Metroid series.Although we can …

We recently took notice of Missbrisolo’s Instagram page where she can be observed cosplaying as a number of different characters. One of the characters that she’s cosplayed is Zero Suit Samus from the Metroid series. Although we can’t tell if Missbri… [1030 chars]

Here’s how The Callisto Protocol took inspiration from SpongeBob SquarePants

The Callisto Protocol has turned to many things for inspiration, including some of horror’s most terrifying movies like…

The Callisto Protocol has turned to many things for inspiration, including some of horror’s most terrifying movies like Alien and Event Horizon, but here’s one that may come as a bit of a surprise: SpongeBob SquarePants. No, I’m not talking about the… [1827 chars]

Steam smashes its own all-time concurrent player peak again

As our friends across the water settled down after their Thanksgiving celebrations, gaming seems to have been at the fo…

As our friends across the water settled down after their Thanksgiving celebrations, gaming seems to have been at the forefront of their minds because — would you believe it — Steam’s broken its own concurrent record. Yes. Again. Whilst the number inc… [1359 chars]

Sony tried to bring PlayStation Plus to Xbox, but Microsoft ‘will not permit’ it

Sony has tried to bring PlayStation Plus on Xbox, but Microsoft ‘will not permit’ the service on their ecosystem — Sony has likewise ‘blocked’ Game Pass.

Neither Sony nor Microsoft are willing to allow either company’s competing services on their respective platforms. 2 VIEW GALLERY — 2 IMAGES Sony’s latest response to the Microsoft-Activision merger reveals interesting new information. Sony tells UK … [2254 chars]

Google Pixel Buds headphones Black Friday and Cyber Monday deal

Google Pixel Buds headphones have seen their prices slashed as part of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale.

Google Pixel Buds headphones have seen their prices slashed at multiple outlets as part of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. The last week has seen deals galore, and two variations of the headphones — the A-Series and Pro — have price cuts at … [1903 chars]

The Sunday Papers

Sundays are for taking vitamin D tablets because the sun is permanently down. Before you ingest, let’s read this week’s best writing about games.

The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for taking vitamin D tablets because the sun has decided it can’t be bothered to hang about. Before you ingest, let’s read this week’s… [3290 chars]

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Adam Gelencser

Tech enthusiast, currently entrepreneuring — regularly sharing content on tech news and irregularly on other topics. Founder of QMapper.co video AI tool.