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Two releases ago, Fedora 21 introduced its namesake project's "Fedora Next" plan. The goal was simple—bring the massive, sprawling entity that is Fedora into some neatly organized categories that would clearly define the project's aims. And since Next launched, Fedora has been busy doing just that. The results are impressive, and it feels like the distro has found a renewed sense of purpose.

Fedora Next's structure is like a series of concentric rings where each ring is supported by the one inside it. At the center are the core components of the system, APIs that applications hook into, and so on. On the outside are the visible layers that users interact with, what Fedora calls "Environments."

For the recently unveiled Fedora 23, these Environments consist of Workstation (Desktop), Server, and Cloud. It's the same Environment trio that Fedora offered in its two prior releases. While Cloud still has the feel of an also-ran, the Workstation and Server releases see quite a few new packages. That's especially true for the GNOME-based Workstation, and luckily the changes are largely welcome.

AT&T is trying to nudge customers on grandfathered unlimited data plans to switch to ones with limited data. But the company's latest move isn't all that punitive: AT&T is raising the price, but for the first time in seven years, and by only $5 a month.

The $30-per-month plan will cost $35 starting in February, AT&T announced. The change will affect a few million customers.

Compared to AT&T's years-long history of throttling customers on the old unlimited plans (which aren't offered to new customers), the price increase is pretty tame. It's also still cheap compared to Verizon, which recently raised its unlimited price from $30 to $50 a month. (The AT&T and Verizon prices don't include what customers pay for voice calls and text messaging, which can bring the total bill closer to the $80-100 range.)

After about 25 to 30 hours of solid work, Xenoblade Chronicles X finally becomes a video game. Before that point, the game exists not to be enjoyed but to rhythmically clobber you into a biomass able to be sculpted into someone capable of playing the remainder of Xenoblade Chronicles X.

X, like its predecessor, is a sort of single-player-only take on the massively multiplayer experience, enabling players to traipse among colossal, uninhibited plains full of creatures that someone, somewhere, probably wants you to kill. But while most modern MMOs will guide you through some semblance of order or direction, X's world is an undirected mishmash.

More than you can possibly comprehend

Xenoblade Chronicles X starts with your protagonist and a whole mess of other poor unfortunates having crash-landed on the planet Mira. Earth is gone thanks to a passing intergalactic war that destroyed your home world as mere collateral damage. Thankfully, a few human cities managed to depart the atmosphere in search of new, habitable worlds.

Battles in Xenoblade Chronicles X play out in real time, in the sense that you can move your character around at will. While you can use any ability you have selected for whatever class you have selected, it's often a better idea to just let the game choose for you.

Samsung's mobile division is getting a new leader, as long-time division head JK Shin will be replaced by Koh Dong Jin.

Under Shin, the mobile division adopted Android and gained a dominating position in the mobile market, which culminated in five straight quarters of record profits ending in 2013. The ride ended in 2014, though, when the company saw huge drops in profits due to its inability to compete with low-cost Chinese vendors like Xiaomi and Huawei. Shin is also blamed for not producing enough handsets to meet demand for the curved-screen Galaxy S6 Edge, which proved more popular with consumers than Samsung expected.

As for the new guy, Koh Dong Jin, no one seems quite sure what direction the new mobile leader will pull the company in. One analyst tells Bloomberg that "the new leader will try to boost software power and foster new innovations." while another analyst tells Reuters, "There is no real change and Samsung appears to be continuing on the hardware-centric path."

Usually it's just PC players that get stiffed when it comes to launch day bugs—the disastrous Arkham Knight port being a prime example—but Just Cause 3 is reportedly causing problems on PC and console. Reports are coming in from multiple media outlets and Reddit users that JC3 is suffering from random frame rate drops, crashes, and disappearing oceans, to name just a few problems.

An early analysis of the the Xbox One version from NX Gamer claims that playing the game for more than hour leads to loading times of over 15 minutes, with the frame rate dropping to as low as 17FPS. NX Gamer also experienced multiple crashes—which is a particularly big problem for a console game—and other problems which could only be resolved by a full system reboot.

"This just looks like memory leakages where it's clearing out RAM," NX Gamer's video analysis says. "Some of the AI goes mad, the physics can react really oddly, and unfortunately on top of all these problems, the performance with a game that's totally designed around blowing stuff up and having this chaotic world doesn't perform very well at all."