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Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata has spoken up again to talk about why it was decided that the long-awaited and much-anticipated game be delayed from September to November.Speaking with Famitsu, as translated by and reported on by Kotaku, Tabata started off by stating that "the optimization isn't [yet] sufficient." There are "various bugs" throughout the game, while frame rate is not holding to its 30 FPS target as well as Square Enix would like.Some of Final Fantasy XV's bugs won't keep players from advancing (a lot of games have bugs like this), but there are others that Tabata hopes can be fixed before release. "There are still of number of bugs like characters floating uaturally i...

Here's our weekly bullet list of topics on today's long episode. Enjoy!Headline Deep Dive: We discuss MIT's DuoSkin tattoo technology, Audi's plan to coect its cars to street lights, and Intel's Project Alloy aouncement. Guest: We drag Producer Logan out of the control room to sit and chat a bit about the history of the show and where we're headed. Segment [Back It or Hack It]: Grow an organic chair made of grass with the help of Terra.Into It: Jeff raves about Kubo and the Two Strings, while Ashley loves the cute chaos of Overcooked on PS4. ...

Following several reports that the release of upcoming role-playing game Final Fantasy XV has been delayed, Square Enix has confirmed a new launch date for the game. Final Fantasy XV will be released globally on November 29--nearly two months later than its previously scheduled September 30 launch date.According to a statement released by Square Enix, the new date "will allow the development teams time to further polish and conduct quality testing so that the reality of the game can match the expectations of both the fans and the creative teams."Game director Hajime Tabata said: "From the moment we joined this project, our vision was to create a level of freedom and realism previously unseen...

Relying on bio-ethanol to generate electricity, instead of compressed hydrogen gas, Nissan is hoping that its latest powertrain iovation will keep us from relying on complicated new infrastructures....

Enlarge Image Softbank Pepper, Japan's friendly neighbourhood robotic humanoid companion, is finally coming to the United States -- but just for a week.The robot will be greeting customers at B8ta, a tech store in San Francisco, Califoia, from August 11 to 18, according to the store's Facebook page. Pepper made its debut in Japan, where it's been sold in 1,000-unit batches. Each time Japanese telco Softbank sends Pepper to the market, it sells out in seconds. Pepper has since also made appearances in Europe. The robot is programmed to communicate with users, follow vocal commands, read human emotions and reac...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryTesla posts $150 million Q2 loss, may miss 2016 delivery targetsTesla has posted Q2 2016 eaings and, while the word isn't resoundingly terrible, there's more bad news to be found than good. We'll start with the good, Tesla posting $1.56 billion in non-GAAP revenue for Q2. That's up from $1.2 billion in the same period last year. Total vehicle deliveries of 14,402 (9,764 Model S, 4,638 Model X) is also a big bump from this period last year, when Tesla shipped 11,507 vehicles. Tesla also says that average price of the Model S is up three percent. That's the good, here's the bad: Tesla posted a $150 million non-GAAP loss, which amounts to $1.06 per share. That's about do...

RoadshowNewsDiesel CarsBMW finally gets go-ahead to sell 2017 diesel modelsWhile diesels don't make up a large portion of BMW's sales, it must be a bummer for the small number of buyers that really do want a diesel Bimmer. Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images When the EPA aounced that it would place extra scrutiny on approving new vehicles in the wake of Volkswagen's diesel debacle, it was assumed that there'd be a number of delays. After an incredibly lengthy review process, BMW finally got approval to sell its 2017 diesel vehicles in the US.The Environmental Protection Agency approved BMW's 2017 diesels for sal...

Videos by Coldplay, fronted by Chris Martin, are among the first that Vevo will add from its agreement with Waer Music. Tabatha Fireman/Getty Images Online music-video company Vevo said Tuesday is has sealed a license with the last of the three major labels, Waer Music Group, to add selections of Waer's official videos into the Vevo library. It already has videos from the two other majors, Universal Music and Sony Music Entertainment, which together own Vevo. (YouTube's parent Google and outside investor Abu Dhabi Media also hold stakes.)For Vevo, Waer Music checks off a big box as it prepares to launch a sub...

It's time to put the "art" in Star Trek.To celebrate a half-century of the classic sci-fi series, which was first broadcast in September 1966, a range of artists were invited to pay tribute to the crew of the starship Enterprise in an exhibition called Star Trek 50 Artists 50 Years. Click through our slideshow below to see a selection of stuing images. Artists pay tribute to 50 years of Star Trek ...

Consumers are starting to hear Sprint now. The nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier has long struggled to get the attention of consumers, who for years were tued off by its poor reputation for coverage and reliability. Having shored up some of those network issues, Sprint has clamoring for more attention. It hired Verizon's longtime "Can you hear me now?" pitchman, Paul Marcarelli, to make the case that Sprint is good enough and affordable enough to warrant a second look. It jumped on the Pokemon Go phenomenon by adding lures to its stores and offering experts for tips on the game (after T-Mobile said that data from the game wouldn't count against their plan for the next year). CEO Marce...

Square Enix Square Enix, creator of the venerable Final Fantasy video game series, has launched a teaser website for a new role-playing game that will launch not on a powerful next-gen console, but on the humble Apple Watch.The website calls the game Cosmos Rings, and simply states it's coming soon. It's safe to assume that the specific mention of "Apple Watch", rather than "smartwatches" means that this won't be a game for Android Wear devices.It's not known what form the game will take, with only the small teaser image to go on, and that may not be representative of final gameplay. The watch's small screen...

[embedded content] With the release of David Ayer's "Suicide Squad" just weeks away, Waer Bros. has given us one last taste of the morally ambiguous super team before we see the real thing."Suicide Squad" stars Margot Robbie as Harley Qui, Will Smith as Deadshot and Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang, all members of Task Force X -- a secret squad of super villains given a do-or-die chance to commute their sentences. Jared Leto joins the cast as the Joker, facing down Ben Affleck, reprising his role as Batman and firmly cementing "Suicide Squad" in the DC Cinematic universe. The final trailer focuses on Viola Davis' character, mastermind Amanda Wal...

Enlarge ImageMastercard is expanding its Masterpass platform into mobile payments in stores. Mastercard How many in-store purchases did you make last year using your phone? If you're like most Americans, the answer is none.Hoping to make mobile payments just a little more accessible, Mastercard and 17 banks teamed up Thursday to let customers pay for stuff using bank apps on their phones. Citi, Bank of America, Fifth Third Bank and KeyBank are among the institutions adding mobile payments -- the ability to wave your phone or smartwatch at a payment terminal to make a purchase -- directly to their apps. Capita...

No Man's Sky, the indescribably enormous space exploration game, is finally finished. Creator Sean Murray tweeted out a photo of the team popping the champagne over what could well be the world's very first copy of the game.Originally scheduled for a June 2016 release, it was pushed back until mid-August. Don't worry, fellow astronauts. After a troubled 4-year development cycle, many feared the ambitious game might never see the light of day.The game is one of the most hotly anticipated indie darlings of the year, and with the promise of trillions of planets to explore and species to discover, it's easy to see why. Don't worry, fellow astronauts. The wait is...

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has struggled to tu around the inteet pioneer. Ethan Miller/Getty Images Yahoo's ongoing effort to sell itself may reach its conclusion this month.A third round of bids from the inteet company's suitors is expected Wednesday, and the final selection process will happen around July 18, Recode reported, citing uamed sources.The report said Verizon, considered the leading bidder, has AOL head Tim Armstrong leading its negotiations. Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert and private equity firm TPG are also in the mix.However, the story mentions that bids for Yahoo's core business are currently...

Enlarge ImageComet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as photographed by Rosetta's OSIRIS camera from a distance of 820 kilometres on March 29, 2016. ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA All things must come to an end, and so it is for Rosetta, the spacecraft in orbit around Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The European Space Agency has officially aounced a date for the mission's conclusion: September 30, 2016.On that date, the orbit will join the Philae lander on the comet's surface, but not with a gentle touchdown. The Rosetta team is going to send the orbiter plummeting into Comet 6...

Walmart Pay has expanded to more states as it strives to go nationwide during the first half of the year. Walmart Attention Walmart customers: You can now use Walmart Pay in a host of additional states.On Thursday, the retail giant aounced the expansion of its mobile payments service to Michigan, Virginia, the Carolinas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Teessee.Like other mobile payment services, Walmart Pay lets you use your smartphone to purchase goods on the fly. The service is accessible through Walmart's mobile apps for iOS and Android.Launched last December, Walmart Pay ...

The lonelygirl15 YouTube series is getting a reboot. Screenshot by Claire Reilly/CNET In 2006, Twitter was just a few months old, your MySpace Top 8 was prime real estate and lonelygirl15 captivated the inteet with her first vlog. What started as a series of webcam videos, filmed by a 16-year-old girl in her bedroom, lonelygirl15 soon tued into a massive sensation, pulling in millions of views. But after just a few months, 16-year-old Bree was revealed to be actress Jessica Lee Rose and the whole series was exposed as a scripted hoax.Sure, the action started to get weird when small-town Bree started talking a...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageAyesha Curry was not happy. Ayesha Curry/Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET In the aftermath of Game 6 of the NBA finals, Golden State Warriors' coach Steve Kerr said in a press conference that the referees called the game poorly. (His team lost.)He said three of the six fouls that MVP Stephen Curry was called for --he fouled out -- were, in the nicest possible way, utter bilge.Ayesha Curry, wife of Stephen, wasn't quite so generous.In a tweet that has now been deleted, but was screencaptured by ...

Tyler Hoechlin -- looks good in glasses! Jordan Strauss/Invision for MTV/AP Images) "Supergirl" recently found a new home at the CW, and now it's found a new hunk as well. According to Deadline, the network has revealed that Tyler Hoechlin will be playing Superman in the upcoming second season. The news signals big changes for DC Comics and the direction of the show, which has been carefully tiptoeing (quite literally) around the character of Superman up until now. Between "Supergirl," "Arrow" and "The Flash," the universe of the Greg Berlanti-produced hero shows has been in question for sometime. Now we fina...