Dragon Quest Treasures Demo Released January 13, 2023
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Square Enix has released a demo for the recently released Dragon Quest Treasures which can be downloaded right now on the Nintendo eShop. Here’s the announcement trailer!
Progress from the demo will carry over to the full version of the game.
Dragon Quest Treasures is out now exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.
Japan Travel Tips – New Years in Japan January 10, 2023
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Happy New Years! It’s Tuesday! Hope you all have enjoyed some of the time for this holiday. Personally I’ve been spending a lot of my time exploring VR in whole new ways. Since we started posting Japan Travel Tips, we’ve highlighted some of the best independently produced content about the country in order to help people interested in visiting. Today, we’re going to take a closer look at how the people of Japan celebrate their holiday season.
This fantastic video, produced by Life Where I’m From, is a perfect display on how people in Japan celebrate the holiday season ranging from Christmas to New Years. Enjoy!
How to Transfer Data From Your Old iPad or iPhone to a New One Without Using iCloud January 3, 2023
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The Holidays are ending and I’m sure many of you are sitting on brand new iPhone or iPad models. For those of you who already possess iPhones or iPads, this can be a concerning time, as your personal data is very important and (barring legacy software incompatibility with new hardware) you can carry your data, settings and applications over from one Apple device to another. The best part is, you don’t need to have iCloud involved in this at all.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Apple Watch owners will need to use iCloud during this process. Before performing this backup make sure to enable a sync of your Health application to iCloud, as due to privacy reasons, Watch data is not included in a standard iPhone backup.
To start, you’ll need the following:
- A Mac or PC with iTunes installed that has enough free space to accommodate your device’s data.
- Your new iPad or iPhone and your old iPad or iPhone. Both must be functional.
- Charging cables that fit your new device, your old device, and can plug into your PC/Mac.
To start, open Finder on your Mac or iTunes on your PC, plug your old device into your computer, instruct the computer and device to trust each other, and perform a complete backup of your device onto your computer. You do not need to encrypt your backup, and if you do encrypt your backup there is no way to reset the backup encryption password if you forget it.
When the backup is finished, hit the eject button on iTunes or Finder next to your device’s name and unplug it. I recommend putting your old device into airplane mode and powering it off after this so it won’t accumulate new information after the backup.
Power on your new device and plug it into the same computer. iTunes on PC or Finder on Mac will notify you of the new device once trust is established between the two. Instead of setting up as a new device, tell the computer to load a backup with your old device’s name onto your new device.
Mac users may notice that Finder may ignore your prompt to load a backup onto your new device the first time your new iPad or iPhone is plugged into your Mac, even if your backup is good. If this does happen, the only way to fix it is to perform a RESTORE on your new device by pushing the RESTORE button in Finder. This will update your device to the latest system software version, and after it reboots you will have the chance to try again.
Once the restore completes, make sure to check your device to conclude any setup processes not usually backed up, such as Wi-Fi setup, iTunes password verification, as well as Face ID or TouchID setup.
Once you’ve made it to your new device’s Home Screen, your applications should start redownloading on their own automatically. Once they conclude, you can begin signing back into all of your applications. You may also need to reconnect third-party Bluetooth devices, but AirPods users will be happy to know that their pods will transfer in this process.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Apple Watch owners MUST transfer the use of their Watch to their new iPhone. After a new iPhone has all its data restored and the user is signed into their iTunes account, open the Watch app on your new iPhone and tell the app you wish to transfer an existing Watch to your phone. This process typically takes around five minutes. DO NOT WIPE OR TRADE IN YOUR OLD PHONE UNTIL THIS PROCESS FINISHES!
Mind of Maniac – What Movies Got Right About the Future December 23, 2022
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We’re coming to the end of the year, and I know a lot of science-fiction fans have been hoping that some of the things shown in popular films like Back to the Future Part II would be ready to purchase at any random corner store. We didn’t get flying cars but there were a lot of things we DID get, or got close enough to count.
What did we get? What movies were the most accurate? Watch Maniac as he sits down for this end of the year discussion about the future…or is it the present?
Don’t Bother Shopping for Meta Quest Gift Cards, No Retailers Sell Them December 17, 2022
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Christmas is a week away and I’m sure a lot of families are interested in offering gift cards to their respective gamer friends and families. There are a lot of options out there regardless of your respective platform, and people interested in buying gift cards for their friends or family that own Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo consoles should have no problem finding gift cards for their console’s online-store. That is, unless, your relative is a Virtual Reality (VR) Enthusiast.
If you happen to be a user of the Meta Quest or Rift platforms (which includes devices such as the Quest 2 and Quest Pro) games for those platforms are purchased digitally through the Meta Quest Store, which is run by Meta. The application will accept Meta Gift Cards in exchange for software purchases. Unfortunately as of the time this article is being posted, no major retailers in the US currently sell them. That includes stores ranging from Best Buy, GameStop and Target, big box stores that will actually sell Quest hardware and peripherals. You may be able to purchase a digital gift card through one of those retailer’s websites but if you’re a kid who does not have access to a credit or debit card, you’re entirely reliant on others who do to help you get games on the platform you use.
I know a lot of people have been writing off the Meta Quest line as a rounding error in Facebook’s coffers but I must say I’ve been honestly impressed by the Quest Pro headset so far. So much so that I’ve been trying all sorts of games for it, even ones I had played on other platforms like the PlayStation VR. Its been the VR device I’ve always hoped for. Surely Meta will someday decide to start shipping physical cards to retailers. But that is not today, and is unlikely to come this season.
iOS 16.2 Released December 13, 2022
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It’s Apple update night! Apple has released important updates for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV. The new update includes the highly anticipated Freeform Application as well as bug fixes and improvements to several first party applications that are included with the device.
The new update can weigh in between 750MB-1.3GB depending on what you’re updating. You can get it right now through your device’s software update feature. Just make sure you have plenty of free space to fit the update.
The Game Awards 2022 December 8, 2022
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The Game Awards 2022 are about to go live! It was a great year for games and next year looks promising with upcoming games I’m hoping will get previews tonight. If you are having trouble finding the feed, we’re embedding it below.
Rare/Weird Things I Own – Plasm #0 December 6, 2022
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Welcome back to the next video where we highlight some of the weirdest and/or rarest items from my vast collection. I know this may not be video game related, but if events had happened differently it could have been. Comic historians from long ago remember the name Jim Shooter. After leaving Marvel, he started his own studio, Defiant Comics, and attempted to create their own comic universe. However, to get their new properties out there they would be doing some very novel ideas the established publishers never considered.
Defiant’s flagship series would be Warriors of Plasm, and in the case of their Zero issue (Ed Note – it was the 90s, number Zero issues were a huge deal) it was released as a trading card pack. If you collected all the cards and laid them out in a 3X3 binder, it would produce a full comic that laid the foundation for the Plasm universe. Unfortunately, Defiant would not last and most people don’t remember Plasm at all. However, we do, and we have a (nearly) complete Plasm #0 with its official binder. It has been sitting in my closet for twenty years. Now, you can see it for yourself.
Jim Shooter is welcome to reach out to us 24/7 to explain himself.
Marvel’s Midnight Suns Prequel Series December 3, 2022
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Marvel’s Midnight Suns launched yesterday but before you start up your copy of the game you might want to check out this incredible five-part prequel series. It does more than set up the backstory of the game and introduce its characters, it’s freaking awesome!
Marvel’s Midnight Suns is out now for PC, Xbox Series X/S and PS5.
iOS 16.1.2 Released December 1, 2022
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Apple has just released an incremental update for the iPhone line of phones. The new update, iOS 16.1.2 promises to include the much anticipated improvements to the crash detection feature on iPhone 14.
The new update should weigh in at around 350MB. It is possible this update could only have come to the iPhone 14 line of devices as there doesn’t appear to be an Apple Watch update at this time.
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