Google knows that the next
big platform war is going to take place behind the wheel, and it won't necessarily need Android phones as a Trojan horse.
Not exact matches
The Wall Street Journal pegs the total cost of his
platform, which includes sharp increases in Social Security and Medicare, plus free tuition, at $ 18 trillion over 10 years, the
biggest increase in public spending since the Second World
War.
But de Blasio has kept his popularity, especially with voters of color, and used his
platform at the helm of America's
biggest city to declare
war on Trump's agenda.
In other
platform - hopping filmmaker news, Andrea Arnold (American Honey) will direct all seven episodes of HBO's second season of
Big Little Lies, and Wong Kar Wai has been doing casting calls for Amazon's Tong
Wars, a 10 - part crime drama set on the streets of San Francisco.
And with the announcement of Disney purchasing Lucasfilm, and the next Star
Wars movie will be released in 2015 with J.J. Abrams directing it, Star
Wars is about to be as
big as ever, which is perfect timing for Zen Studios to release a digital pinball game based on the franchise for mobile
platforms, Xbox Live and PSN.
The Xbox has been a relatively shaky
platform for exclusives this generation with
big titles such as Fable Legends and Scalebound being cancelled as well as former system sellers such as Halo and Gears of
War not breaking the bank in terms of sales numbers.
Switch is also less well - served with what are called «third party» games (i.e. games made by other publishers that appear on multiple
platforms), including
big titles such as Destiny, Grand Theft Auto, Star
Wars Battlefront and Call of Duty.
Since the franchise launched in 2013, Disney Infinity has been a
platform for all things Disney, with stories and characters from the world's
biggest brands across The Walt Disney Company: Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star
Wars.
While Middle - earth: Shadow of
War mostly escaped the intense scrutiny and anger directed at two of 2017's
biggest loot box / microtransaction cautionary tales, those being the much - maligned Destiny 2 and the even - more - widely - detested Star
Wars: Battlefront II, the game was nonetheless «review bombed» on
platforms such as Steam and Metacritic by gamers who were unhappy about Middle - earth: Shadow of
War's monetization system, and it thus went on to become a popular example among pundits of the dangers behind poor implementation of microtransactions and loot box economies in triple - A video game releases.
There's plenty to look forward to from Disney with live - action remakes of its animated films, a new Kingdom Hearts with a Toy Story tie - in and a new Star
Wars - themed augmented reality game — the
big twist for us at Pocketnow is that the proprietary headset and lightsaber controller
platform is in development from Lenovo.