Ubisoft is bringing a new free-to-play "Assassin's Creed" game to iPhone, where users get to customize their character and adventure in 215 B.C. China — registration for closed beta testing is open now.Assassin's Creed Codename JadeThe new Assassin's Creed entry, known only as "Codename Jade" for now, is a free-to-play game from Ubisoft and Level Infinite, and it will be built with the Unreal Engine for mobile devices. It will be available for both iOS and Android when it launches in the future. Read more...

Ubisoft is bringing a new free-to-play "Assassin's Creed" game to iPhone, where users get to customize their character and adventure in 215 B.C. China — registration for closed beta testing is open now.Assassin's Creed Codename JadeThe new Assassin's Creed entry, known only as "Codename Jade" for now, is a free-to-play game from Ubisoft and Level Infinite, and it will be built with the Unreal Engine for mobile devices. It will be available for both iOS and Android when it launches in the future. Read more...

Image: Apple Apple has spent years slowly making green bubbles feel like a worse kind of message — no typing indicators, tiny photos, no end-to-end encryption — but those constraints have always been limited to conversations in Messages; use any other app on your iPhone, and there’s generally parity with Android. But with iOS 17 later this year, Apple will expand those platform differences to phone calls, adding a big, splashy sign that your friend or family member bought the wrong phone. The biggest change is thanks to Apple’s new Contact Poster feature for phone calls, one of Apple’s banner improvements for iOS 17. When you set a Contact Poster, you choose a photo of yourself that fills an iPhone’s…

Image: Apple Apple has spent years slowly making green bubbles feel like a worse kind of message — no typing indicators, tiny photos, no end-to-end encryption — but those constraints have always been limited to conversations in Messages; use any other app on your iPhone, and there’s generally parity with Android. But with iOS 17 later this year, Apple will expand those platform differences to phone calls, adding a big, splashy sign that your friend or family member bought the wrong phone. The biggest change is thanks to Apple’s new Contact Poster feature for phone calls, one of Apple’s banner improvements for iOS 17. When you set a Contact Poster, you choose a photo of yourself that fills an iPhone’s…

Image: Apple Apple has spent years slowly making green bubbles feel like a worse kind of message — no typing indicators, tiny photos, no end-to-end encryption — but those constraints have always been limited to conversations in Messages; use any other app on your iPhone, and there’s generally parity with Android. But with iOS 17 later this year, Apple will expand those platform differences to phone calls, adding a big, splashy sign that your friend or family member bought the wrong phone. The biggest change is thanks to Apple’s new Contact Poster feature for phone calls, one of Apple’s banner improvements for iOS 17. When you set a Contact Poster, you choose a photo of yourself that fills an iPhone’s…

The new macOS Sonoma may have been drowned out in WWDC's focus on the Apple Vision Pro, but it has received a startling number of improvements — including ones Apple didn't even mention.With Craig Federighi starting with the new screensavers, it didn't sound like a banner year for macOS updates. Yet ultimately Apple spent 13 minutes of that keynote presentation talking up macOS Sonoma, and in actual use, we've been finding more and more excellent new touches.Screensavers and the lock screen Read more...