Call of Duty: Modern Warfare review — disturbing and thoughtful
To say that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is provocative is an understatement. It makes you think about a lot of things, including how...
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...
Hasbro closes Backflip, studio behind DragonVale and Transformers mobile games
Hasbro has shut down its Backflip Studios mobile game developer in Boulder, Colorado, according to social media posts. The toy and entertainment company bought...
Micron Technology acquires Fwdnxt to move into AI hardware and software
Micron Technology said it acquired Fwdnxt, a maker of hardware and software tools for artificial intelligence deep learning applications. When combined with Micron‘s memory...
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...
Shroud joins Ninja in livestreaming exclusively on Mixer
Shroud is moving to Mixer. Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek, a popular Twitch livestreamer, has made a deal to broadcast exclusively on Microsoft’s livestreaming platform. Shroud...
Caffeine debuts livestreaming shows, starting with rapper Offset playing games
Caffeine has found a new direction for its social broadcasting platform, and today it is announcing that rapper Offset will create a couple of...
Google Stadia’s first game-dev studio opens in Montreal
Google is launching its cloud-gaming service Stadia on November 19. The company is positioning this as the first giant leap into a console-less future....
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...