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Stevie Bonifield

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    You’ll soon be able to work out with your favorite K-Pop music in Apple Fitness Plus.

    It’s part of an expansion to Apple’s workout service coming on December 15th that will not only add K-Pop as an option in the workout music genres (the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack is probably a good choice), but it’s also bringing new digital dubs of Fitness Plus videos in Spanish, German, and Japanese.

    Apple Fitness Plus will also be available in 28 new markets, including Chile, Hong Kong, India, the Netherlands, and more.

    An image of an iPhone with the Apple Fitness Plus music genre options on screen
    Image: Apple
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    Stevie Bonifield
    The new “slim” PC version of Helldivers 2 won’t tank your performance.

    Last week, Arrowhead Game Studios announced that they are drastically reducing the file size of the PC version of Helldivers 2, bringing it down to just 23GB (from 154GB).

    Testing by Digital Foundry shows that this “slim” version doesn’t have any noticeable performance drawbacks. Even on an HDD, it only took 6.3 seconds longer to load into a tutorial compared to the original version.

    Hands-on: Helldivers 2's "Slim" PC Beta Does Wonders - Even on HDD

    [Digital Foundry]

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    Stevie Bonifield
    Valve’s Android compatibility layer now has its official name, Lepton, and a cute frog logo.

    The name Lepton appeared on Steam and SteamDB just a few weeks after Valve unveiled the Steam Frame headset, which will be able to run Android apps.

    In our new interview with Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais, he mentioned the Frame uses “a similar compatibility layer as Proton, just targeted at Android.”

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    The header image for Lepton on Steam
    Image: Valve
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