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With the launch of the new Apple TV, Apple has positioned its set-top box as the heir to the Nintendo Wii, bringing accessible casual gaming into the living room with the device’s app store and motion-sensitive remote control.

The company’s all-singing, all-dancing press conferences regularly involve a quick play-through of a video game, but usually under the guise of a graphics demonstration. Hence the introduction of Vainglory, the mobile-first multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) that debuted alongside the iPhone 6, which was explicitly characterised as an example of what the company’s new Metal API could do for game developers; and Infinity Blade, announced as “Project Sword” by Epic Games alongside the introduction of Game Centre, again with the emphasis on its graphical fidelity. “Everything you see is in realtime”, Epic’s Mike Capps emphasised.

This time, the demonstration of Warhammer 40,000: Freeblade, a third-person shooter for the iPhone, followed a similar pattern: its compatibility with the new devices’ “3D touch” was trailed heavily. But the two games we got to see running on an Apple TV were somewhat different. Crossy Road, an already hugely popular iPhone game, served notice to existing iOS developers that porting games over to the living room was expected, while the debut of Beat Sports, a new game by Rock Band developer Harmonix, emphasised that Apple wanted to work with the sort of developer who normally steers clear of the ecosystem entirely (although Harmonix has released one iOS game previously, a port of Rock Band for the iPhone, which was co-developed with EA Montreal).

To be sure, both demos did touch on aspects of the device that Apple was keen to show off, with Crossy Road’s tight integration with the iPhone version and Beat Sports’ use of the motion-sensitive remote. But the subtext was clear: Apple thinks it can take on Nintendo for third place in the console market.

The problem is, even while it’s parading game developers on stage, it’s still not clear if Apple actually wants to take on the console market. The inconsistency within the company when it comes to games is painful to see, and shows no sign of abating any time soon.

The problem is that games are treated as just another type of app by the company – albeit a very profitable type. The games store, for instance, is organised in exactly the same way as the rest of the app store, with prominence given to a few select apps and then three charts of top-selling paid games, most-downloaded free games, and “top grossing games”.

Like all charts, those tend to be vaguely self-reinforcing – and their relation to the actual highest-quality games is loose at best – but “top grossing” takes it a stage further, encouraging the sort of cash-grabbing that makes Clash of Clans, Game of War and Candy Crush Saga a perpetual top three.

Similarly, in the newly-released guidelines for Apple TV apps, the company reveals that “the maximum size of an Apple TV app is limited…

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/12/apple-tv-games-console-can-it-be-trusted
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Monday July 13, 2020 9:31 am PDT by Juli Clover

Apple today shared a funny video focused on the problems that people working from home have to deal with, including noisy children, chaotic schedules, communication issues, and more. The video focuses on showing off Apple products and their capabilities that can be useful when working from home, such as the ability to scan a document with an iPhone, mark up a PDF, Siri Reminders, and more.The…

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Apple has a gift for all of us stuck at home under lockdown – it’s made a number of shows on its Apple TV+ streaming service free to watch. It already made season premieres free to watch, but now it’s unlocked entire series and feature-length movies for no fee at all.

Interested? Here’s how to watch without paying a thing.

What can you watch for free on Apple TV+?

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Apple has made nine series and movies completely free to watch. These are:

• The Elephant Queen – a documentary about a family of elephants as they travel across the African savannah. Narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor
• Little America – comedy drama focusing on immigrants who have settled in America
• Servant – psychological thriller about a couple who experience a tragic event, only for a mysterious force to enter their home
• For all Mankind – space drama from Star Trek‘s Ronald D. Moore
• Dickinson – comedy starring Hailee Steinfeld about the early life of writer Emily Dickinson
• Helpsters – kids’ puppet show from the creators of Sesame Street
• Ghostwriter – four kids are helped by a ghost on their mission to release fictional characters from the books they feature in
• Snoopy in Space – animation in which the iconic pup becomes an astronaut
• Oprah’s talks on the coronavirus pandemic

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Apple’s flagship shows See and The Morning Show aren’t included. It still wants you to subscribe to its £4.99/$4.99-per-month service, natch! You can, however, watch those for free by signing up to the Apple TV+ seven-day free trial.

How to watch Apple TV+ shows for free

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To watch, all you’ll need is the Apple TV app. This comes pre-installed on supported devices made by Apple (and some Samsung smart TVs) or can be downloaded for other devices like Roku and Amazon streaming sticks.

Then just follow these steps.

• Open the TV app on your supported device
• Sign in with your Apple ID
• Select a show and start watching

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Following the launch of an eponymous standalone Apple TV app, Charter Spectrum on Friday announced a promotion that allows new and existing Spectrum TV and Internet customers to add an Apple TV 4K to their subscription for $7.50 a month.

The hardware offer was detailed in a press release touting the launch of the Spectrum TV App for tvOS, which hit the App Store on Thursday.

According to terms of the deal disclosed in the document, new and existing customers will next week be able to add Apple’s top-tier streaming box to their monthly plan for $7.50 plus tax for 24 months. While not specified in the release, Charter is assumedly marketing the 32GB Apple TV 4K, as the full-term cost is comparable to purchasing the $179 device at retail pricing.

“With Spectrum TV on Apple TV 4K, customers can now enjoy the ultimate entertainment experience across their iPhone, iPad and Apple TV,” said Apple VP of marketing Greg Joswiak. “We want to help customers get right to watching their favorite channels, shows, movies and sports, and with innovative features like zero sign-on, the Apple TV app and Siri, they are able to jump right in.”

With the launch of Spectrum TV this week, Charter Spectrum became the first U.S. basic cable company to offer support for tvOS 12’s zero sign-on functionality. The feature automatically authenticates existing subscriptions, allowing users to seamlessly access channels and on-demand content provided through their selected cable bundle.

Zero sign-on is fashioned as a successor to “single sign-on” functionality, which debuted in 2016 to streamline the log in process for a growing number of third-party video streaming apps.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/04/spectrum-offers-apple-tv-4k-to-subscribers-for-750-per-month
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Learn how to jailbreak your Apple TV 4. Everything you need to jailbreak your Apple TV here. Find out why you should jailbreak your Apple TV 4 and the benefits of a jailbroken device.

What are the benefits of jailbreaking the Apple TV 4?

Jailbreaking your Apple TV 4 gives you full control of the device which includes the ability to install non-App Store apps. Currently, if you do not jailbreak your Apple TV, but choose to use the “sideload” method to install third-party apps, the apps will expire in 7 days and you will need to re-install them again after they expire. However, with a jailbroken device, you will be able to install these apps and use them forever. Apps on a jailbroken device do not expire. Some notable third-party apps includes NitoTV, Kodi (XBMC), emulators, and a web browser.

What you will need:

• Apple TV 4 (running tvOS 9.0.1 or earlier)
• Computer running Mac OSX (Macbook, iMac, Mac Mini, Mac Pro, Hackintosh etc.)
• USB Type-C to USB cable

You do not need a paid Apple Developer account, simply sign in with your Apple ID (or create one if you do not have one).

1. On your Apple TV, go to Settings > System > Software Updates > and turn off Automatically Update

2. Download and install Xcode from the App Store to your Apple computer

3. Open Xcode and select Create a new Xcode project

4. Go to tvOS > Application

5. Select Single View Application and hit Next

6. Name Product Name “Jailbreak” and name Organization Identifier “com.YOURNAME” (replace YOURNAME with your name – no spaces) and hit Next

7. Save Git Repository to your computer

7a. If you see a “No matching provisioning profiles found” (if not applicable, skip):

Hit Fix Issue, log into your Apple ID account, and select your profile

If your Bundle Identifier is not unique, you will need to rename it. Follow the format, com.UNIQUENAME.Jailbreak (replace UNIQUENAME with something else).

8. Download and unzip Pangu Jailbreak for Apple TV and iOS App Signer

9. Run App Signer

9a. If you are getting the “iOS App Signer can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer” error (if not applicable, skip):

Right-click App Signer and click Open

10. For the Input File, hit Browse, and select the atvipa.app file in the Payload folder from the Pangu download in step 8. For the Provisioning Profile select the profile you created earlier in Xcode and hit Start

11. Save the .ipa to your computer

12. Connect Apple TV to computer with USB-C cable

13. In Xcode, go…

https://sideloadappletv.com/jailbreak-apple-tv-4/
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Using this tutorial you will be able to untether jailbreak iOS 5.1.1 (5.0 9B206f and 5.0.2 9B830) running on Apple TV 2G. This tutorial uses Seas0nPass for Mac OS X or Windows.

UPDATE: Please, consider reading our Jailbreak & Unlock FAQ, especially if you have questions or troubles.

Step one

1. Make sure you’re running the latest version of iTunes.
2. Download Seas0nPass: Mac |Windows
3. A micro USB cable will be required to connect Apple TV 2G to computer.
4. Disconnect all iPods, iPhones, and iPads from the computer before running Seas0nPass.

Step Two

Extract the archive you downloaded. Then double click the extract application to launch it

Step Three

You might be asked to sign in as an Administrator. Enter your username and password then click the OK button.

Step Four

You will be asked to enable UI Scripting. Click the Enable button.

Step Five

Click the Create IPSW button from the main screen.

Step Six

Seas0nPass will now download the latest Apple TV firmware file

Step Seven

Seas0nPass will create a custom IPSW file for you.

Step Eight

Once your custom IPSW file has been created, Seas0nPass will ask you to connect the Apple TV to your computer via a micro-USB cable and use the remote to put it into DFU mode by holding MENU and PLAY/PAUSE for 7 seconds. The power cable should be unplugged during this process.

Step Nine

Once your Apple TV has been detected in DFU mode, Seas0nPass will upload some files, automatically launch iTunes, and beginning restoring to the new firmware.

Step Ten

That’s it! Your AppleTV 2G is jailbroken!

Update: Here is a video tutorial for this jailbreak:

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Does Apple TV require a subscription?

You do not need to pay a monthly subscription fee in order to use the Apple TV. It comes with a variety of pre-installed apps. Many of the apps and functions of the Apple TV are free – for example, you can view your photos and videos via Apple TV and listen to your music as well. Some content from some networks like PBS, ABC and CBS is free as well.

Some apps, like Hulu Plus and Netflix require a direct subscription to view their content. Other content from networks like Showtime requires a subscription through a cable or satellite provider. HBO, on the other hand, recently announced HBO Now, a stand-alone subscription service that will be available in April. À la carte content such as this will likely expand in the future.

On March 25, 2019, Apple announced Apple TV Plus. The streaming service doesrequire a subscription. Unlike other subscription services, Apple TV Plus only includes original series and movies. It does not include a back catalog of films and television series, like Netflix or Amazon Prime.

The bottom line is there is no specific Apple TV subscription fee required in order for you to use the device, but much of the content you might want to access does require a subscription.

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Apple Arcade launched with close to 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added regularly. Follow along with our guide on the latest from Apple’s gaming service.

You can learn more about and download all the new games by heading to the Arcade tab in the App Store, then swipe down to the very bottom and tap “See All Games.” The newest games are listed at the top.

If you haven’t signed up yet, Apple Arcade is available free for the first month, then $5/month for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and Apple TV. PS4 and Xbox wireless controllers are also now compatible with Apple devices and select titles.

7/10: New to Apple Arcade today is a dark and eerie adventure puzzler called Creaks.

The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking – and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.

From the creators of indie classics Machinarium and Samorost comes Creaks, a new puzzle adventure game that delights the senses with its hand-painted visuals, precise animation, eerie sounds, and an eclectic original score from Hidden Orchestra. Proceed at your own pace at figuring out the solutions to dozens of carefully designed puzzles, explore the mansion for hidden paintings, and uncover the great secret.

6/25: A big release today on Apple Arcade is the futuristic adventure thriller and sequel to the popular Beneath a Steel Sky, Beyond a Steel Sky.

From Charles Cecil, creator of the Broken Sword series, with art direction by Dave Gibbons, legendary comic book artist behind ‘Watchmen’, comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, the long awaited sequel to the cult classic ‘Beneath a Steel Sky’.

You are Robert Foster. A child has been abducted in a brutal attack. You have vowed to bring him home. But the trail has led you from your community of desert wasteland dwellers, to Union City, one of the last remaining mega-cities in a world ravaged by shattering wars, and political meltdown.

Fortified and impenetrable, it is a utopia in which people live happily under the surveillance and control of a benign AI. But all is far from what it seems…

‘Beyond a Steel Sky’ is a dramatic, humorous, cyberpunk thriller in which engaging puzzles drive a fast-paced narrative set in a dynamic gameworld that responds to – and is subverted by – the player’s actions.

• An adventure set within a dynamic world, populated by willful characters driven by motivations that the player can subvert. In combination with a unique hacking tool, multiple solutions to puzzles emerge from player choices. • Unravel dark conspiracies, defeat a terrifying antagonist in this dramatic, humorous, cyberpunk thriller, which explores contemporary themes: social control, AI, and total surveillance. • Intelligent puzzles are interwoven with an intriguing dramatic narrative to deliver a compelling gameplay experience. • A beautifully detailed, comic-book styled world, from the mind of legendary comic artist Dave Gibbons.

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