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Earnings Results: Airbnb stock falls sharply on cautious forecast and as record bookings miss estimates
What has the Diablo 4 Beta taught us? Blizzard is back, but we need to be cautious
If you’re like most other gamers I have seen over the past few days, Diablo 4 is now high on your ‘most excited’ list for 2023. Move over The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, right? (Wrong). It’s been almost 11 years since the launch of Diablo 3, and since then the games industry has moved on. We’ve become more accustomed to ‘games as a service’, we’ve got better at implementing social elements into RPGs, and we’ve rethought lifecycle and monetisation – for better and worse – when it comes to triple-A projects.
Diablo 4 has been watching, like an ancient evil in the dark, learning from the mistakes of its peers. Countless Diablo-likes have come and gone in the decade since the dark lord last loomed huge over our consoles and PCs, and none have stood the test of time. Every newcomer that’s had its five minutes of fame before being unceremoniously killed off and cast aside has made Diablo stronger – anyone that so much as glanced at the past few weeks of beta tests could tell you that. The king is back, and it’s going to haunt the industry for a long time.
There are a few foibles I need to point out about the game itself, and they mostly stem from the technical side of things. The game suffers from disconnects, crashes, rubber-banding, and more than a couple of graphical aberrations (which I would care about more if the whole thing didn’t look so damn good). But all that is to be expected when you’re playing a game in its beta stage, really. The most insidious problem the game has is something Blizzard can’t wrangle out of the code in time for launch… because it’s Blizzard itself.
Mikel Arteta makes ‘extremely cautious’ admission ahead of January transfer window
Irish employers plan on hiring next year, but tech sector will be ‘cautious’
More than three-quarters of Irish employers surveyed by Hays plan on increasing salaries over the next 12 months.
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iPhone users have become more cautious about fast iOS upgrades
The urgency with which IT needs to prepare for major iOS releases seems to have slowed since the early days when everyone rushed to install the latest version of Apple’s mobile software.
At least this year, iPhone users appear to have become a little more laid back.
The installation patterns are changing
The reasons for thinking this are suggested by the latest Mixpanel stats. As of earlier today, Mixpanel claims roughly 13.3% of iPhone users have upgraded to iOS 16 since it was introduced this week. That’s a slightly more rapid adoption rate than iOS 15 saw (11.7%) last year, damaged as that release was by user reluctance to accept on-device content monitoring.
Flo Period-Tracking App Releases ‘Anonymous Mode,’ but Users Should Still Be Cautious
Period tracking app Flo is hoping its newly released “Anonymous Mode” will give users the confidence to continue using their product even as state law enforcement authorities around the country appear increasingly interested in soliciting data from apps to prosecute alleged abortion seekers. Privacy experts speaking…