Justin is the Editor-in-Chief at 9to5Toys. For well-over a decade he has covered everything from video games and smart home devices to iPhone and MagSafe accessories, EDC gear, and just about everything in between. A professional audio engineer/producer, he also specializes in home recording, microphones, digital audio, and streaming gear. See something cool out there? Developing the next viral Apple gear accessory? Or just want to talk deals? Contact him directly at justin@9to5mac.com for tips, pitches, and more.
In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Mystery of Fortune 2, Tempest: Pirate Action RPG, Scan QR/Barcode Reader and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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(Update 3/6 8:35am): You can now grab the new Gold headset for $15 off today at Rakuten using code SAVE15.
Last week, Sony debuted its brand new DualShock 4 controller designs. Along with the previously released retro-style translucent variants, the new Midnight Blue and Black Steel options are already among some of my personal favorites in the collection. But Sony is continuing the new hardware announcements this week with a brand new Gold Wireless Headset for PlayStation 4 and PSVR…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Oflow, Monogram Wallpapers, Brainbean, Meteor Multitrack Recorder and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild released in March of 2017 as a launch game for Nintendo Switch. It quickly became one of the highest rated games of all time and is widely considered to be one the best games Nintendo (or anyone for that matter) has ever made.
Players are still searching every corner of the map to find new secrets, max-out their character builds and more. While it can be hard to say goodbye to these experiences once we have completely exhausted the content within, one Zelda player has thought of a very interesting way to immortalize their time in Hyrule…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Dungeon Survivor, 7 minute workouts, SharpScan Pro and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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Nintendo has clearly had a strong foothold on the gaming market over the last year or so. Switch has now crushed Wii U sales as the fastest selling gaming console in U.S history over its first 10 months on store shelves. So it’s clearly going to take some serious heavyweights to sway the balance of power at this point, and if anyone is going to do it, it’s going to be Rockstar.
The Grand Theft Auto developer’s releases are just about always the biggest of the year and Rockstar has had its sights set on 2018 for a while now. We all know the company will be taking us back to the wild west in its next installment of the Red Dead series and Rockstar (might) have just given us an actual official release date along with some brand new screen shots of RDR2…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Flick Kick Field Goal, KORG Module, Doom and Destiny and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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After debuting new retro-style translucent DualShock 4 controllers ahead of the Black Friday season last year, Sony is now ready to out its latest designs. We got a look at the amazing new controller for the New Monster Hunter World PS4 Pro bundle earlier this month, and now it’s time to look at the new Midnight Blue and Black Steel options.
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While it has been somewhat slow for iOS and Mac app deals this month, it looks like we are heading in to February with a good batch of discounts. This time around we are seeing around 15 very notable Mac App Store deals on everything from LEGO games to Batman, Deus Ex and XCOM. Each of the apps listed below is at the lowest prices we can find.
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Stickman Tennis, Catan Classic, LEGO Star Wars III, Deus Ex, Braid and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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Fireproof Games has made a name for itself among gamers with The Room series over last few years. The game is highly touted as one of the best of its kind on mobile, and it just kept getting better every time another sequel dropped. The original game in the franchise launched way back in 2012 followed by a pair of sequels in 2013 and 2015. Fireproof has kept us waiting for a while on the next entry in the critically acclaimed series, but wait no longer.
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Well we don’t see very many Nintendo Switch console deals, and we aren’t expecting to start any time soon. However, we do have a rare bundle discount today courtesy of trusted game dealer AntOnline via eBay Daily Deals. You can grab the Nintendo Switch with Super Mario Odyssey and a Switch Pro Controller for $399.99 shipped.
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Office Story, Crowntakers, Power Hover, Custom Notch and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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Square Enix released the latest main installment of its flagship RPG franchise in late 2016 to solid reviews. While Final Fantasy XV may not be a perfect experience, long time fans of the series were certainly appeased and steady DLC add-ons have helped the game’s post-release life span. More recently, Square introduced the Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition with the full season’s pass worth of DLC content, a brand new dungeon/environment, first-person mode, new gear and additional boss battles. Needless to say it is most definitely the version of the game to get if you haven’t invested in the standard version and its DLC just yet.
While the Royal Edition is offering those jumping in on this long after release a great chance to catch up on the entire package, Square also has a mobile version of the game set for release on iOS and Android…
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One of our favorite Apple accessory makers, Pad & Quill, is now offering up to 15% off on all of its iPhone cases for Valentine’s Day. And it gets even better. Using code PQ5 on any of the discounted cases will drop it down an additional 5%. That’s 20% off all of Pad & Quill’s high-quality and rarely discounted iPhone X/8/7/Plus cases.
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Earth 3D – Amazing Atlas, Awesome Calendar, First Strike: Final Hour and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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NAMM 2018 is in full swing this week highlighting the best of what the audio/music production industry will have to offer over the coming year. All of the biggest music gadget companies flock to Anaheim, California to show off their newest products and this year is no exception. We have been bringing you some of the major announcements from the show over the past week (or more) and now it’s time to round-up the best of NAMM 2018…
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NAMM is fully underway now with loads of new products hitting the show floor from Korg’s new polyphonic synth Prologue to new Universal Audio interfaces and the latest Teenage Engineering’s Pocket Operators. After introducing the Digitakt 8-track Drum Machine/Sampler and easily making our list for Best of NAMM 2017, Elektron is back in 2018 with its latest musical gadget.
Known for its quirky and yet extremely powerful sequencer design along with a growing line-up of incredible hardware instruments, Elektron is now unveiling the new Digitone polyphonic digital synthesizer.
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Samson is one of those audio brands that might not standout in a lineup, but it has been offering high-quality products at affordable prices for over 2 decades. The company made its way to Anaheim, California for this year’s NAMM show with a number of new products including new cables, microphones and most interestingly, new powered monitors.
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on BeatMaker 3, Battleship Online, Minecraft: Story Mode and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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After the massive new Logic Pro X update hit today and with all of the new products coming out of NAMM 2018, it is certainly going to be a busy weekend for producers and musicians. And we have already seen new instruments from Arturia and Korg as well as Focusrite’s USB-C interfaces for Mac and the brand new metal-series Pocket Operators from Teenage Engineering.
It was only a matter of time before IK Multimedia started to unleash its 2018 lineup on us. On top of some exciting new software products/enhancements, it is now introducing the new iRig Stomp I/O…
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NAMM 2018 is now in full force down in Anaheim, California. The yearly trade show attracts the best and brightest in the world of music production from the major players like Moog, Korg and Roland, to smaller more boutique companies like Teenage Engineering. We have already seen some big time product announcements and now it’s time to look at TE’s brand new pocket operator synths…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Brave Guardians TD, Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty, Baldur’s Gate II and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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Virtual assistants are quickly making their way into just about every product category with the word ‘smart’ attached to it at this point. CES 2018 was dominated by new Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant laden devices from smart home gear to helper robots, sound bars and much more. Clearly, virtual assistants aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, despite what Cortana has to say about it. And now it looks like Alexa and Siri might be getting a new friend courtesy of the folks at Ubisoft…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on The House of Da Vinci, LightEaters!,iBasket Pro, Pro Paint for Mac and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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One of the biggest release dates likely to be on any PS4 owners’ calendar has now been revealed. The long-awaited and much-anticipated God of War is finally getting an official launch date today alongside a brand new trailer, pre-order bonuses and the full reveal of the various collector’s editions…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on BADLAND 2, Healthy Vegetarian Recipes, Wuzzit Trouble and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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Apogee has been one of the top names in digital audio in the music production world for years. It successfully jumped into the mobile game with its iOS friendly interfaces among other things a few years back, and recently launched the second generation MiC+ USB/Lightning Microphone. Apogee rarely opts for affordability over quality, but we had to give it a run for its money anyway.
We have now had a chance to go hands-on with the company’s latest portable mic over the last little while. Apogee has certainly stepped its game up here, but is it still worth the world-class price tag? Head below for our full review…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on The Quest, Nimian Legends,Warbands: Bushido, Remote Drive for Mac and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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January is typically a slow month for game releases, and 2018 is no different, but it won’t be much longer before the highly anticipated Monster Hunter: World releases for consoles. We are also seeing what appears to be the version of Street Fighter V fans have been waiting for as well as some notable Nintendo Switch and 3DS releases.
Last month’s lineup was headlined by the launch of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 for Switch along with Okami HD and Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds. But for everything you should be keeping an eye on this month, head down below…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Cardinal Land, Jet Ball Arkanoid, RadioApp, Super Tank Battle and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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In today’s best game deals, Amazon is offering the Destiny 2 on Xbox One for $24.94 with free shipping for Prime members or in orders over $25. It also available on PS4 for a few bucks more. Still $60 at Best Buy, this is the current best price around.
ICYMI: We still have the Playstation 4 Pro + Destiny 2 & Overwatch GOTY for $400 shipped ($470+ value) or without the games for $339. Here’s the new Monster Hunter World and Glacier White PS4 Pro consoles are releasing this month.
Down below you’ll find more console game deals and new products. Your daily iOS/Mac app sales are on the way!
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Well, it’s that time of year. NAMM 2018 is just around the corner now and we are already seeing many of the big time music production company’s showing off their 2018 lineups. Arturia has certainly been busy the last few days with the second generation MiniBrute, Mini Brute 2S and RackBrute, not to mention the new interfaces from Focusrite and Universal Audio.
We suspected Korg wouldn’t be far behind Arturia here, and we were right. The company has now unveiled a brand new poly synth, a drum machine and the latest addition to its popular (and extremely affordable) Volca line…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on SimCity: Complete, Demon’s Rise, iPoe Vol. 3 and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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Native Instruments has been running the music production software game in a major way for quite some time. Along with some of its more recent hardware offerings like the Kontrol series keyboards and, even more so, the Komplete software bundles, its products have become mainstays for amateur and seasoned producers. Needless to say, the German-based company has been producing some of the best virtual instruments and effects for years and it is now ready to take its content management and library system to the next level.
Today, NI is launching Sounds.com. The new platform is a subscription based service where creators can access thousands of new samples, loops, sound packs and more for a monthly subscription…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Inspire Pro, Typic, GeoBee Challenge, iTranslate Voice and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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Sony has just unveiled a pair of new (for the most part) PlayStation 4 editions headed to the US market. While the standard version along with the Destiny 2 and Star Wars Battlefront 2 variants have been on store shelves for a while now, Sony’s high-end machine is getting a new face lift to celebrate a major upcoming release and is going solo with the Glacier White rendition…
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With NAMM 2018 just around the corner, we are starting to see some major new music production product announcements. Arturia has been busy unveiling the next generation MiniBrute synthesizers and Universal Audio’s most affordable new Thunderbolt interface is now available for purchase. While the higher-end Universal Audio options rank among our favorites in the price range, Focusrite is also revealing its latest I/O hardware with the new Clarett USB devices…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Better Habits, Vocabulary, Enlight and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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(Update 1/17 12:00pm):
French electronic music company Arturia started back in 1999 with some of the best analog emulation products on the market. The company more recently dove head first into the hardware business with its Brute line of analog synthesizers as well as some interesting digital hardware for modular users and the like. Most recently it released its massive flagship Matrix Brute for a cool $2,199, but it looks as though the company is back to focusing its attention on the more affordable and universal end off the product line.
Ahead of NAMM 2018 (kicks off later this month), Arturia has now unveiled the latest hardware product with the MiniBrute 2…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Infinity Dungeon Evolution, Essential Anatomy 5, Brainbean, True Horror and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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(Update 2/13 1:05pm): The New Nintendo 2DS XL Pikachu Edition is now available for $159.99 shipped at Amazon, GameStop, Target and more.
Nintendo had a record-breaking 2017 with major new hardware releases and some of the highest rated first-party titles in history. The hybrid Switch console was apparently the highest selling home video game console in U.S. history in its first 10 months on the market, and we all know how fast the SNES Classic Edition flew off store shelves. But the company’s best-in-class handheld division has been pretty busy as well. We saw the new Zelda 2DS for Black Friday, the Poké Ball Edition 2DS XL and the Super Nintendo-themed 3DS handheld, just to name a few. To sum it up, Nintendo has been on fire lately.
After some major new game announcements during yesterday’s Nintendo Direct Mini, including Super Mario Odyssey DLC, Donkey Kong on Switch and Dark Souls Remastered, we now know the New Nintendo 2DS XL Pikachu Edition is coming later this month…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Iesabel, Disney Stickers, the Tower of Fortune games and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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The Japanese gaming giant released a new Nintendo Direct today via YouTube. With a shorter run-time than its usual events, today’s broadcast is referred to as a Nintendo Direct Mini. But don’t be fooled by the naming scheme, we got some major new Switch announcements including new Super Mario Odyssey and Pokemon Tournament DX content, Dark Souls: Remastered, Hyrule Warriors, Donkey Kong for Switch and more…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Doom & Destiny, ReadKit, SimCity, Weather Now and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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Amongst the rollable prototype OLED displays, smart home hubs and live translation headphones of CES, there are always a few amazing little robot helpers. From adorable home companions to futuristic commercial fleets, you can always count on new AI bots to appear in Vegas come January.
One such bot that caught our attention is Aeolus. The large wheeled robot can bring you a drink, sweep the floor, liaison with Amazon’s Alexa and much more…
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From smartwatches and basic tracking bands to smart rings and head-mounted gear, wearables are everywhere this year at CES. It seems as though companies are trying to cram smart tech and sensors in to just about anything they can think of these days. But one particular avenue of this kind of technology yet to make its way to the masses is smart, connected “ingestibles”…
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These days it can be difficult to get into smart home products with so many different standards and brands out there. Anytime we see universal gear that attempts to bring the whole thing together, regardless of how you have invested your cash already, it’s worth investigating. Brilliant showed up at CES 2018 with what it describes as “the world’s smartest light switch” and so far, it has our attention…
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