Joe Maring / Android Central:
LG Pay, with both NFC and magnetic stripe terminal support, is now available in the US for the LG G8, will expand to other LG phones in the coming months — LG Pay, LG's copy and paste alternative to Samsung Pay, has been available in South Korea ever since 2017.
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Riot's relationship with Tencent has reportedly been strained over declining profits and mobile games — Riot Games' relationship with parent company Tencent Holdings has been a rocky one over the past few years, according to a report published by news platform The Information.
Aside from a hands-off display at New York Comic-Con, we haven't seen or heard much about the upcoming, mini-sized NES Classic Edition since its first announcement in July. Now, new information is coming from Nintendo itself and from journalists at a recent hands-on preview event. They bring both good and bad news for retro Nintendo fans.
On the good side, the NES Mini apparently does have a few graphical options to play with. A recently updated promotional page now highlights three different visual modes: "pixel perfect" (i.e. square pixels), 4:3 (i.e. cathode ray tube ratio), and "CRT filter" (i.e. simulated scan lines on your HDTV). Nintendo also notes that you can create four "Suspend Points" for each of the 30 games on the system. You can lock any of those points so they don't accidentally get saved over.
Hands-on reports from journalists also confirm what we first surmised from an earlier NES Classic Edition trailer: that the emulated graphics and colors on the NES Classic Edition's 30 built-in games are much more faithful to the original games than Nintendo's previous Virtual Console releases. Wired's Chris Kohler notes that "the whites are sparkling white, and everything pops in bright color" on the new HDMI-powered system.
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Thanks to Griffon Enterprises, this summer you'll be able to display your own full scale replica Navigation Pixie Yui. The Sword Art Online figure is 15.5cm, or 19 on her stand, arriving in August for 8,000yen.
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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.
