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The Biden administration is preparing new, harsher restrictions against the chipmaking industry in China. After a series of so-called “is informed” letters sent earlier this year to a few US companies, the Commerce Department now plans to turn these individual letters into a broader message to China: we won’t let…
Assassin’s Creed Codename Jade is a ‘AAA RPG’ for mobile devices
Ubisoft is bringing Assassin’s Creed back to mobile devices with Jade, a new title set in China. The game takes place around 215 BC, filling in the timeline between Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Origins, and it’s designed to feel like a mainline entry, parkouring and all. There’s no release date quite yet and all Ubisoft has shown is the classic eagle-flying-over-a-settlement sequence.
One thing we do know about Jade is that it will support the ability to create your own character, a first for the series. There’s no word on pricing or potential micro-transactions for the game.
Ubisoft has tried to make Assassin’s Creed a thing on mobile devices for nearly as long as the series has existed. The first mobile entry was Assassin’s Creed: Altaïr’s Chronicles, and it came out for the Nintendo DS in 2008, with iOS and Android versions the following year. The original Assassin’s Creed, meanwhile, hit PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2007. There have been a handful of mobile-first Assassin’s Creed games since then, but Ubisoft hasn’t released an iOS or Android title tied to the series in four years.
Take Assassin’s Creed everywhere you go with Assassin’s Creed Codename JADE, a AAA RPG action-adventure game for mobile devices set in ancient China.#AssassinsCreedpic.twitter.com/MykzIZdoHR
— Assassin’s Creed (@assassinscreed) September 10, 2022
In addition to Jade, Ubisoft is building a game based on the live-action Assassin’s Creed series heading to Netflix. Of course there’s also Assassin’s Creed Mirage, the new mainline title set in the Middle East.
Exploring GNOME-Based UIs For Mobile Linux Devices
“Now a team of developers have been working to bring GNOME to mobile devices running Linux-based operating systems.”
GNOME Shell for mobile provides a touch-friendly user interface optimized for smartphones and tablets. And while it looks a bit like Android or iOS at first glance, there are a few key differences. The GNOME team have outlined some of them in an article about recent updates to GNOME Shell on mobile.
Like other modern mobile user interfaces, you interact with GNOME shell using taps, swipes, and other gesture-based navigation. What’s different is that Android has three different views for navigation: a home screen, app drawer, and multitasking view. iOS has two: home screen and multitasking. But GNOME Shell has a single screen that allows you to view and launch apps and switch between running apps using gestures. There’s no need to wait for a new screen to load. In a nutshell, you can swipe up from the bottom of the any screen to view a list of installed apps, thumbnail images showing all currently running apps, and a search box. You can tap an app icon to launch a new app, enter a term in the search box to find an app, or swipe between running apps to switch which app runs in the foreground.
You can also keep swiping upward to shrink the multitasking thumbnails and provide more room for app icons. And you can flick thumbnail previews upward to remove an app from the multitasking section. Typing in the search box will bring up relevant results including apps and settings.
“One interesting new feature here is that notifications can be swiped away horizontally to close, and notification bubbles can be swiped up to hide them…” the developers point out. “While the current version is definitely still work in progress, it’s quite usable overall, so we feel it would make sense to start having experimental GNOME OS Nightly images with it.”
But Liliputing also notes that it’s not the only GNOME-based UI for mobile devices. There’s also Purism’s Phosh UI — the default UI for the PureOS on its Librem 5 smartphone (and available for other mobile Linux distros including Debian).
And Purism recently bragged that its smartphone is now also “the first mobile computer with a truly convergent OS” — meaning it can run on multiple hardware platforms, with apps adapting to their hardware.
The Librem 5 [smartphone] uses the same convergent PureOS as our Librem 14 laptop and Mini PCs, with the same adaptive applications that make the Librem 5 more than merely a phone, it’s a mobile computer in your pocket that can shape shift into a laptop, tablet, desktop, or even a server…. Scale your Librem 5 up to be a full laptop by attaching the Nexdock. Because our core apps are adaptive, they are ready to run on whatever screen you have….
With phosh-mobile-settings installed, you can flip the nexdock around and use the big screen just like a tablet…. Don’t have a laptop dock? The Librem 5 can also act like a desktop computer when connected to a screen, keyboard, and mouse using our USB-C dock. Using the beta phom virtual mouse app, you can turn your Librem 5 into a touchpad mouse while it’s connected to the big screen.
With the Librem 5, you can keep your desktop computer in your pocket and connect to a bigger screen at home or at the office and use the same apps on the bigger screen without restarting….
With the Librem 5 phone, you’re getting much more than smartphone to run mobile-only apps; you’re getting a laptop, tablet, desktop, all running software that respects your privacy and freedom.
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