There are few games, if any, that are as strange and satisfying as Devolver Digital’s Ape Out. The independent developer’s latest entry for Nintendo Switch (and PC) Ape Out is an incredible mix of sights and sounds that is accompanied with a very simple premise. The goal of Ape Out is just to get the titular primate out of a mysterious facility with as much blood and mayhem created as possible....

Since Respawn Entertainment and Electronic Arts did release the popular port of the Apex Legends battle royale game for the mobile platform called ‘Apex Legends Mobile’, mobile gamers were quite excited to get hands-on. After beta testing for a year or so, now the stable version has been launched on iOS and Android platforms. However, some interested users can’t play Apex Legends Mobile due to an Error Code 291 on their mobile devices whatsoever....

The first thing we must do is download and install the Detours package, which will be installed in the C:Program FilesMicrosoft ResearchDetours Express 3.0 directory. After that we need to open the Visual Studio Command Prompt and execute vcvarsall.bat script. This can be shown in the picture below: In the same command prompt, we need to change the directory to the Detours directory C:Program FilesMicrosoft ResearchDetours Express 3.0 and run the nmake command to build the Detours libraries, tools and samples....

Apple has shared during its education event in Chicago today that student accounts through schools will now get 200GB of iCloud storage for free. A considerable bump from the current 5GB of free iCloud storage, Apple will be giving the 200GB allotment to every student with a managed Apple ID. Keep in mind this won’t work like the Apple Music student discount, where any student with a .edu is eligible. The updated 200GB plans are only for students with school provided Apple IDs....

Following up the official announcement of iCloud and iOS 5 this afternoon, Apple has begun seeding OS X 10.7.2 GM to the Developer Center. This final release gets the Mac prepared for iCloud’s official release October 12th, to the general public. The GM also features bug fixes, enhancements, and Safari 5.1.1. If you find anything interesting, we’re all ears. Also, check out the iOS 5 GM! Apple seeds new build of OS X Lion 10....

Tim Cook has shared photos from his recent trip to China where the Apple CEO spoke to media about upcoming initiatives in the country and visited new Apple retail stores opened in the region. The photos (above and below) were posted to Cook’s new Weibo account. The head Apple exec started posting to the Chinese microblogging site, much like he does on Twitter, earlier this month. Cook spent much of his trip discussing new environmental initiatives announced by the company this month....

Apple has confirmed it will be livestreaming its just-announced March 21st media event, expected to feature several product unveilings including a 4-inch iPhone SE and 9.7 inch iPad Pro. Although all recent Apple events have been streamed online (with varying levels of success), it is nonetheless reassuring that the trend will continue so everyone can watch Apple’s newest announcements live. Tune in here when the show starts at 10 AM PDT on March 21st....

Today, Apple announced that the App Store Subscriptions, originally found on The Daily, are now available for all developers. The subscription service is available for all content based apps such as magazines, newspapers, video, music, and basically anything else a developer could want their users to subscribe to. The revenue system for developers is the same as normal in-app-purchases or app sales: 30% to Apple and 70% to the application’s developer....

We’ve already detailed a handful of new features coming to Apple Maps in iOS 14.5, including Waze-style reporting and hazard features. Now, it also appears that Apple is working on a new feature to show users how busy a particular point of interest is before they visit. As first spotted by a user on Reddit, Apple has updated its Privacy menu in the Location Services part of the Settings app to describe a new feature that would use location data to aggregate details about how busy a point of interest is....

The Apple Maps app didn’t get any major changes in iOS 12, but the MapKit team announced at WWDC that they are officially launching MapKit as a web framework for others to use. Google Maps is incredibly popular as an embedded map for other web services, and now Apple is trying to take a slice of that pie. MapKit JS is the same map component that Apple uses in many of its web properties, including Find My iPhone on iCloud....

In a new interview with Wired, Apple Music’s Zane Lowe and Oliver Schusser dive into how the service will evolve and where it’s headed over the next year with more livestreams, behind the scenes content, and radio, but not as we currently know it. The last official report from Apple put paying Apple Music subscribers at 60 million. While Beats 1 radio has grown in many ways in the four years since it started back in 2015, Zane Lowe’s goal its to raise awareness and discovery....

In line with our report from last week, Apple has flipped the switch in its Apple Store app to allow for customers to check availability for the new iPhone models at Apple Stores. The process is similar to the one for Personal Pickup on Apple’s online store. To check for availability on the iPhone and iPod touch Apple Store app, navigate to the buy iPhone page, add your iPhone to the cart, then choose “Check Availability....

The latest Apex Legends hero, Octane, was launched to great enthusiasm a few days ago. With plenty of interest aimed at Octane and his tongue-in-cheek origins, it’s now been uncovered that there’s an Apex Legends Octane Titanfall link: the character’s design and concept are actually in reference to a well-known Titanfall 2 speedrunner. Cash Mayo, a well-known Titanfall 2 speedrunner, currently holds the world record for the quickest clear of a map known as The Gauntlet in the game and has footage of it up on YouTube....

According to Bloomberg, Apple and Google are teaming up on a $500 million bid to acquire Kodak’s patent portfolio. Prior to this new bid, several reports had claimed that Apple and Google were leading separate groups of several companies that wanted to acquire Kodak’s patents. Kodak’s patents have become available for acquisition following the company’s move into bankruptcy earlier this year. Bloomberg‘s report also notes that Apple’s previous consortium of potential bidders, prior to this new bid with Google, included Microsoft and Intellectual Ventures Management....

CNBC Mad Money host Jim Cramer says that strong performance by Apple and Tesla has led to a misleading impression of the performance of S&P 500 stocks. Cramer said that the S&P has grown more than 50% since its coronavirus low in March, but this is mostly due to the performance of tech giants, with Apple and Tesla particularly influential … Business Insider reports. Apple this week became the first ever publicly-traded company to hit a market cap of $2T, after doubling in value in just 21 weeks....

UPDATE: Workaround now available to restore access Thanks to an easy DNS hack called PlexConnect, non-jailbroken Apple TV users have been able to unofficially run the popular media server Plex on the second and third gen Apple TV since we first told you about it back in June. The hack, which required users to run an app on their Mac or PC that masquerades as the Trailers app, appears to be blocked in the latest Apple TV update pushed out this morning....

Apple MacArthur Center in Norfolk, Virginia will permanently close in the near future. The store originally opened in September 2006. In a statement issued to MacRumors, Apple confirmed the upcoming closure, although a specific date remains unannounced: MacArthur Center’s story parallels the downturn of countless malls not just due to the pandemic, but changing customer shopping trends. The mall has suffered a number of store closures in recent years. Apple hasn’t significantly updated is MacArthur Center store since it opened 14 years ago....

Apple is intent on stopping Samsung from marketing and selling “copycat” Galaxy devices in all of the European Union. Apple has already tried to ban the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in most of Europe (injunction lifted), but today they are going even farther with their legal proceedings, asking a Dutch court to ban all Galaxy series devices. The ban includes the widely popular Galaxy S II, which has seen some success in Europe....

Bloomberg reports that Apple has received preliminary approval for the $450 million lawsuit settlement reached over its ebook pricing practices. The settlement was first reached out of court about six weeks ago just before the case was set to go before a jury. Despite that development, Judge Cote in New York voiced concern over a clause in the settlement leading many to believe it may not receive approval, although she has since decided the settlement is appropriate....

According to a new report from Digitimes Apple is ramping up their orders for touch-screens Q4 of 2010. Apple along with other companies will be putting their suppliers, TPK Touch Solutions and Wintek, in short touch-screen supply during the 4th Quarter. The report notes that these touch-screens will mainly be for “handsets” so there is room to specultate that these touch-screens are for a new iPhone launching in early 2011 or the 5th generation iPhone coming Summer 2011....