Activision has announced several new details about the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 beta, whose first leg is set to kick off Friday. The official Call of Duty X account posted a dense image showing all content players have access to, and it's certainly more than many expected.
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Good for players on Linux / SteamOS and modders - Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is now free from Easy Anti-Cheat
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Apple is hiring a Studio Producer for its Fitness+ service with a background in live production, in what could be a hint at the future of the service. The job listing was posted last month, detailing an in-person role at Apple's Santa Monica studio. It calls for someone with a "strong foundation in live or live-to-tape multi-camera production and a genuine curiosity about where live content is headed next." Apple says it wants a "creative collaborator" who is "excited to experiment with new form...
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The Linux kernel version 7.2 has now been officially released with optimizations, new hardware support and lots of bug fixes
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Dinotopia was my FAVORITE thing when I was a kid. It's the story of a lost continent, where a peaceful society of dinosaurs and humans live in harmony. I always wanted a Dinotopia game. What I didn't realize is that... there were already three of them. Today let's look at Dinotopia: The Sunstone Odyssey, Dinotopia: The Timestone Pirates (boy there are a lot of...stones... in this series), and plain old Dinotopia. Guess what? Only one of them is an FMV with animatronic dinosaur puppets.
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Polybius is gaming's oldest urban legend. It's a cursed arcade machine that supposedly caused illness, amnesia... death. Of course, Polybius is just a story. But the legend is so believable because of real shady business dealings: knock-off Atari games, shell corporations, and military propaganda. Jenna Stoeber explains the true story behind Polybius.#polybius #atari
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France is the second-biggest producer of video games in the world. Franchises like Assassin’s Creed, Dishonored, Life is Strange, and … whatever the hell David Cage is doing, come from French-based companies. So France has had a huge influence on gaming, globally. But what you might not know is how weird and counter-cultural some of France’s early games are! In the 1980s, French game developers were going wild, making games that would fit right in on itch.io today.
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The way game saves are implemented in a game can affect everything from the difficulty, to the narrative, to the gameplay itself. And save scumming, that much-hated exploit that makes it possible to brute-force games like XCOM 2... or avoid consequences in Mass Effect... is now being built into games like Desperadoes 3, as a mechanic for you to exploit and enjoy.
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The Super Mario Bros. movie is famously bad — so bad it killed the hopes of any good video game movie adaptations for YEARS. Or... so they say. But what if Super Mario Bros. wasn't actually that bad? Jenna digs into the history of the Super Mario Bros. movie and gets the answers about why it's so reviled. And why, just maybe, you should watch it for yourself.
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It's spray day and we're making a big deposit at the blood bank. Here's why Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice borrows its iconic blood spray from Kurosawa and other samurai movies.
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I was hoping for "Dominion" but I'm OK with this.
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A fourth party is pursuing legal action against xAI, alleging that Grok was used to create CSAM based on her childhood photos.
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All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending August 16.
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When it was time to decide the fate of the galaxy, did you pick red, blue, green, or other?
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Prime Video's Reacher owes everything to this underrated Tom Cruise thriller
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Marvel's latest Spider-Man movie keeps breaking records, hitting $2 billion in less than 3 weeks. Could it be Marvel's first $3 billion movie?
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You can still watch the actor play a superhero in his breakout role
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Google has added some smart theft-detection features to Android in recent years.
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If you really want a OnePlus phone, you can still make it work.
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Marvel Tokon features a brand-new 4v4 fighting system. But if you want a classic 3v3 tag fighter, Dragon Ball FighterZ has everything you need.
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You probably don't need antivirus software on your Android phone, but there are some exceptions.
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While it may be one of the dumbest disaster sci-fi movies, Geostorm is still a rare distillation of everything that makes Gerard Butler great.
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Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Revenge Edition nets you the first 34 fighters released for SNK's latest Street Fighter 6-rivaling fighting game
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A Super Nintendo or PlayStation looked better on retro TVs than today's ultra-sharp displays, but why is there such a difference?
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He's short, angry, hairy, and murderous, but Wolverine has got some wisdom to share
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The program makes upgrading your hardware incredibly convenient, but weigh your options.
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Back when the game was seemingly 6v6, Sion had a beard, and the story revolved around "an antichrist of sorts."
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Amid the row between Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch and former writer Stella Sacco after he said he'd have "been happy to replace" her with AI, the studio has finally added the AI disclaimer to Rideshare Stimulator's Steam page that had been conspicuously missing since the game first went live for wishlisting on 30th July.
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The differences between the iPhone and Android show up when you connect them to your car, as well.
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Before it established itself as an awards-darling with A Plague Tale, Asobo Studio cut its teeth in the wild west of licensed games.
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The legendary game designer guides us through the games on his PC.
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Why does hearing it in public places feel so… wrong?
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Ledgerbound combines tactical turn-based RPG combat and a charmingly silly premise executed to perfection, topped with relentless flirting.
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Matthew McConaughey has explained why he ultimately passed on playing Joel in HBO's The Last of Us – a role that, of course, went to Pedro Pascal instead.
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