月份: 2021 年 4 月

The Galaxy Z Fold 2 hits a new low.

What you need to know

Samsung is lowering the starting price of its Galaxy Z Fold 2.
By cutting the price by $200, Samsung hopes to make its foldable smartphones more affordable.
Samsung is offering $100 credit for owners of its foldables if they refer a friend.

Foldable smartphones are starting to mature, but they’re by no means accessible. Many of the best foldable phones start at over $1200, and that’s just for the cheaper models. Unless you take advantage of trade-in deals, you’re looking to spend a pretty penny for a new form factor that’s still in its early days. But Samsung is hoping to soften the blow and make foldable smartphones more accessible, so it’s lowering the price of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2.

Thanks to Samsung’s new $200 price cut, the Z Fold 2 now dips below $2000 for the first time. It’s unclear if Samsung will take the same cost-sensitive approach with the rumored Galaxy Z Fold 3, so if you’ve been on the fence about p…

The co-op game has finally launched, but not without some bumps in the road.

Square Enix and People Can Fly’s sci-fi shooter Outriders has released for PS4 and PS5, with a demo still available to download (a pretty lengthy demo, at that). If you’ve hopped into the newest title — which also happens to be free through Xbox Game Pass — you may have ran into some issues already. While no game is without its faults — especially one that relies on servers — they should be noted all the same so that the developers can get to work on fixing them.

We’ve compiled a list of major issues that people are experiencing, including any workarounds that people have found so far. One major issue you’ll probably see a ton of: server disconnects.

Outriders Known bugs and how to fix them

PS5 and PS4 cross-play disconnects with PC

One of the biggest issues that players are reporting right now are frequent disconnects when trying to cross-play between console and PC. Apparently there was a desy…

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Outriders is out now across all platforms, but the Stadia version is suffering from some big launch issues like broken cross-play.

What you need to know

Outriders is out now for Stadia and all other platforms.
Cross-play does not work at all on Stadia right now.
The Stadia build is an outdated version of the game and is suffering from several other launch bugs and issues.

Outriders released on April 1 for Stadia and all other platforms. I’ve been playing it myself and am around five hours in so far—you can check back later this month for my full review of the Stadia version. As of now I’m having fun with how the Trickster controls, so it’s too bad the game itself is struggling in basically every way, way more than other Stadia games.

For starters, the majority of launch day was entirely unplayable. On the official Outriders ‘Status’ website, both ‘Core Components’ and ‘Multiplayer’ were marked as experiencing “Partial Outage” and would frequently disconnect me when trying…