The RetroBeat: Digital Eclipse revisits (and maybe improves) Aladdin for Genesis
I love retro video games (hence this column’s existence). I also love Disney. Yes, I’m one of those folks, the person who would karaoke...
Ubisoft lowers financial targets after soft Ghost Recon: Breakpoint launch, major game delays
Ubisoft announced today that it is lowering financial targets for fiscal 2019-2020, now expecting net bookings of $1.6 billion. It also pushing back the...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare multiplayer impressions — A romp through a battlefield playground
While the single-player campaign of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is intense, ponderous, and serious, the tone of multiplayer combat the opposite. It’s a...
GameStop may begin selling Call of Duty: Modern Warfare early
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launches overnight for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 when the clock strikes midnight. But you probably don’t have...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare — The single-player campaign begins with a couple of blasts
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare starts out with a notice that says it has mature content. You have to click on it where it...
Illumix goes free-to-play with Five Nights at Freddy’s AR: Special Delivery
Illumix said that Five Nights at Freddy’s AR: Special Delivery, the next installment in the popular horror series, will be the first free-to-play game...
SuperData: Facebook sold 180,000 Oculus Quests in Q3 2019
Back in September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at Oculus Connect 6 that the company was making Oculus Quest virtual reality headsets as fast...
Mike Ybarra joins Blizzard after years as Xbox services boss
Blizzard Entertainment is getting a new executive from Microsoft. Mike Ybarra is taking on the role of executive vice president and general manager at...
Conan O’Brien is also in Death Stranding, I guess
Gaming auteur and famous-friend-haver Hideo Kojima is putting yet another one of his buddies into Death Stranding. On last night’s Conan, host Conan O’Brien revealed...
Xbox One hardware falters, but software and services are bright spots
Xbox One hardware sales are continuing to fall, and that put a drag on Microsoft’s gaming division. Xbox revenues for Q1 of fiscal 2020...