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Rare’s Everwild Game Gets Encouraging Update
Key Takeaways
- Everwild’s development is going well, according to an insider.
- Everwild by Rare is an open-world action-adventure game with a magical twist.
- Fans still wait for more details about Everwild.
Rare’s upcoming title, Everwild, gets an encouraging update on its development and gameplay. An insider shares that development on Everwild is going well and that the gameplay loop is nailed down, keeping fans of the upcoming title hopeful for its release.
Everwild is an upcoming open-world action-adventure Xbox game developed by British game studio Rare. Rare is known for the development of Sea of Thieves, the high-seas sailing pirate game where players tackle an open world of adventures as a pirate sailing across the ocean. With the success of its previous game, Rare’s upcoming Everwild is looking to be Sea of Thieves but with a magical twist, as many of the elements of what made the open-world pirate game successful could easily be implemented into Everwild. While players have yet to see much gameplay for the upcoming title, a new update suggests that development on Everwild is going well.
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Originally talked about on the Xbox Two podcast and later shared in a tweet from GPN Game Pass News, insider Jez Corden shared some small updates on Everwild. During the final segment of the latest episode of XB2, Corden shared that development on Everwild is going well and that the studio has really “nailed down” the gameplay loop. This is especially uplifting, as Corden’s last positive update on Everwild was relatively scarce and provided limited details on the game.
Insider Shares Update on Everwild Development and Gameplay
While this is certainly good news for fans of the series, it is still unclear when exactly more will be revealed about Rare’s upcoming title. Official statements on the game still seem to be extremely limited, as this information is still technically unconfirmed by Microsoft itself. As it seems now, Everwild is still set to feature a large-scale multiplayer world, alongside some magic-heavy gameplay and action-adventure elements.
As fans are waiting for more official news on Everwild, October 17 is gearing up to be a huge day for Xbox gamers. The Xbox Partner Preview that day is set to showcase over a dozen new trailers alongside several world premiers for some Game Pass titles. Confirmed titles to be showcased that day include the DLC for Alan Wake 2, Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, and Wuchang: Fallen Feathers. MechWarrior 5: Clans is also set to release on October 17 for Game Pass holders, alongside several more exciting titles hitting the subscription service later this month.
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How to send pictures from iPhone to Android
You’d think that sending pictures from iPhones to Android phones would be easy — aren’t ‘smart’ phones meant to be smart? — but really, it’s anything but. That’s why we’ll help you figure out how to transfer photos from an iOS device to an Android one.
Whether you’re transferring a few snaps or hundreds of them, there are many reasons why you might want to send pictures you’ve taken on your iPhone (or iPad, as the process is the same) over to an Android phone. However it’s complicated for a few reasons.
Firstly, iPhones take photos in a file format that even the best Android phones don’t use. There are also the issues that popular messaging and social media apps have limits on how many pictures you can send at once (and compress them a lot) while iCloud doesn’t work on Android devices.
Usually, sending pictures from iPhone to Android is a mess, but this guide will easily walk you through what you need to do.
Tools and requirements
There are three key things that this guide will require:
- An iPhone (or iPad, as the process is the same)
- An Android phone (or tablet, as it’s also the same)
- A Google account or cloud storage account
Quick steps on how to send pictures from iPhone to Android
At a glance, here are the three steps for sending photos from iPhone to Android:
- Change the file format your iPhone shoots in (+ take the picture)
- Upload to the cloud on your iPhone
- Download from the cloud to your Android phone
Step-by-step guide
1. Change the iPhone camera file format
By default, iPhones take photos in a file format called HEIC, which doesn’t take up much storage space but can’t be read by Android phones. Sending HEIC photos to an Android phone will be like sending English books to a French speaker — it won’t make sense. So to send pictures from an iPhone to an Android phone, you’ll need to change the format your iPhone camera takes pictures in.
Changing the file format is, thankfully, very easy. Simply head to the Settings app (the one that’s a black cog on a gray background) then select Camera.
Now select Formats and you’ll see that ‘High Efficiency’ is ticked. Press Most Compatible to change it. Once you do this, photos you take will be in JPG instead of HEIC, which is one of the most widely-supported image file types around.
Ideally, you should make this change before you take the photos that you’ll want to send to your Android phone. If you don’t it’s not the end of the world, and you’ll still be able to transfer them, but your Android won’t be able to display the images.
2. Upload to the cloud on your iPhone
You’ve got some great pictures on your iPhone, that are in a JPG format, and you want them to be on your Android device. Now what? A few options will let you send small handfuls of pictures including email, social messaging apps and social media platforms, but the best option, especially if you have loads of images, is via the cloud.
The default iOS cloud app is iCloud but this isn’t readily accessible on Android phones without some technological know-how, and I’d instead recommend one of the many other apps to do this.
I’d primarily recommend Google Drive, because this is available on iOS devices and comes preinstalled on Android devices, and the photos accompanying this guide depict it. Another Google app, Google Photos, comes on some Android devices and can also be downloaded on iPhone.
There are loads of third-party options too like OneDrive, Dropbox and Box, which you can use if you’re already subscribed to these services. All are available on both iPhone and Android devices.
To upload your photos to the cloud, firstly use the App Store to download the cloud storage app of choice. To find it press the magnifying glass search logo at the bottom-right.
Once the app is downloaded, log in with your account details (and create an account first if you don’t have one).
Uploading from your iPhone to the cloud is easy. It’ll vary slightly by app but generally you need to find a + icon to upload files, find the photos you want to upload, and select them. Bear in mind that if you’re uploading a lot of files it may take a while.
3. Download from the cloud to your Android phone
Now find the Android phone or device that you want the pictures to be on.
On the phone or tablet, use the Play Store to download the app of the cloud storage platform you used in the second step. Then log in to the platform using the same account that you used in said step.
In the app, find the photos that you uploaded from your iPhone. The exact process to download the pictures onto your Android will vary by app, but they’re not a million miles away, and I’ll describe what to do on Google Drive because most apps will have a similar method:
In Google Drive press and hold on the first picture you want to download, until it turns blue. Now press once on each of the other photos you want to download, and when you’re done, press the three-vertical-dot hamburger menu in the top right. Finally, simply press download.
Now you’ve done it! The photos will be downloaded onto your phone, and you’ll be able to find them with the system file manager app. They’ll also be shown via your mobile’s Photos or Gallery app.
Troubleshooting
What if I sent a HEIC picture?
If you sent a photo taken in HEIC, the default iPhone file format, you’ll find that you can’t open it on your Android device.
By best advice to you would be to use the cloud storage system to transfer the HEIC picture to a computer, and use a software that supports HEIC (for example Photoshop) to open it. Then save the picture as a JPG and transfer that back to your Android.
A few third-party apps on the Play Store purport to convert HEIC to JPG but I’d urge caution before downloading an app from an unknown company.
Can I send pictures using a cable?
While Android phones can be plugged in to iPhones using very specific cables, that’s generally done as a way to set up an Android for the first time, and there’s no easy way to simply drag and drop files between devices this way.
You can use a cable to connect your iPhone to a computer, then move the pictures from your phone to a computer, then plug in an Android to the same computer, then upload the pictures from the computer to that device.
But honestly, this option is a little more work and requires extra tech (the computer and the cables) so I’d recommend relying on the cloud.
Is there an option that’s free?
Many cloud storage options require you to pay… if you have more than a certain amount of photos.
People with a Google account can get 15GB of free storage (which is shared between all Google apps like Drive, Photos, Docs, Sheets and so on) while OneDrive offers 5GB, Dropbox has 2GB and Box has 250MB (or a quarter of a gigabyte).
For context you can get roughly 200-300 photos per gigabyte (depending on the exact picture size and format, but that’s an average).
If you want to go over that limit, each storage option has paid tiers that offer loads more storage space.
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Red Dead Online Beta Led to Real-Life Marriage
Key Takeaways
- A player met their spouse in Red Dead Online and celebrated their wedding while honoring the game.
- Other players congratulated the couple, even sharing similar stories of finding partners in games.
- Despite the end of major updates, Red Dead Online continues to bring players joy and unexpected connections.
A Red Dead Online beta player is celebrating their wedding and thanks the game for making it happen. The story has charmed fellow fans Red Dead Online and its offline component, and has led to some other players sharing their own similar stories.
Although Red Dead Online‘s biggest content updates have come to an end, many players still enjoy Red Dead and the wild west they get to explore in it. While some players are still exploring with a posse, this player revealed how they met the person who has just become their spouse when they first played the game.
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Reddit user cat1nthedark shared a post with the game’s subreddit to celebrate their wedding. Cat1nthedark and their spouse met in Red Dead Online‘s beta back in 2018, where the two were members of a Red Dead posse together. Six years later, cat1nthedark is still friends with many of the same people, and wanted to share their happiness with other players at having tied the knot with their new partner for life. The two even paid tribute to how they met in choosing a venue for their marriage, as they tied the knot in Tombstone, Arizona, and a pair of their posse members even attended in real life. As the newlywed puts it, the couple were cowboys when they met, and cowboys when they married.
Reddit Users Share Congratulations with Newly Married Couple
As one might expect, fellow players have been coming out of the woodwork to share their congratulations with the newlyweds. Many thought it was cool that they met their life partner by complete chance via a video game like Red Dead Online. Many of the commenters celebrated and made jokes with ties to the game, like suggesting that the new couple should have had their honeymoon in Tahiti. Others said that the two clearly had some “God damned faith,” and that this was all part of the “God damned plan,” referencing some iconic memed lines from Red Dead Redemption 2‘s singleplayer components. Another fan said that Red Dead Online wasn’t the only Rockstar title to help two people meet like this, noting that they met their own spouse in Grand Theft Auto Online under similar circumstances.
While a lot of players cross paths all the time in games without making any connections, it’s neat to see gamers finding partners in their favorite titles. With any luck, the new couple will have a long and happy marriage playing lots of games together.
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