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It Took Apple 8 Years to Listen to Me and Add This Killer Feature to the Apple TV

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Welcome to a new series called Apple a Day, where we’ll share pieces of Apple content from our archives – an article, review and/or video – daily from now through late September. In addition to CNET, this series will include pieces from our sibling sites PCMag, Mashable, Lifehacker and Popular Science.

For the first installment, join me as we revisit the Apple TV, the company’s venerable streaming device.

Record scratch: Unlike many of my CNET colleagues, I’ve attended “only” two Apple events in Cupertino. Back in the day, I covered TVs and streaming and was invited for the launch of new Apple TV boxes, namely the Apple TV HD in 2015 and the Apple TV 4K in 2017.

I wrote a ton of articles and shot numerous videos about these overpriced little streamers, and one of my favorites was titled: 7 Ways Apple TV Can Get...

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'I worked for like 15 years on just Hearts of Iron and history, so you want to do something different' — Afterworld director explains the fantasy post-apocalyptic setting, and the pub trip that inspired the game

* Afterworld is the first Paradox grand strategy game with an original fantasy setting in a decade * Director Dan Lind says this brings a level of "design freedom" that would be possible in few real-world settings * He also wanted "to do something different" after working on historical