A quick 5G guide: Separating reality from hype
Exactly one year ago, I wrote about the onset of “fake 5G news” — the increasing use of 5G as a buzzword to attract...
The DeanBeat: Coming to terms with brutality in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Everybody has a line. We all draw it in different ways. That’s the theme of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, this year’s first-person combat...
Why Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has torture, child combat, and shooting unarmed women
GamesBeat: I saw The Last Men in Aleppo, the movie about the White Helmets (who rescue bombing victims and identify themselves as non-combatants with...
Watch Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s most gut-wrenching scenes
You can’t unsee some of the brutal scenes in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, this year’s first-person combat game from Infinity Ward and Activision....
Pixelbook Go review: Faltering on Google Assistant and apps
It’s kind of incredible that a Google-made laptop runs a hobbled version of Google Assistant. We’re referring to the Pixelbook Go, which begins shipping...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare review — disturbing and thoughtful
What you won’t like The occasional glitch The game was surprisingly stable when I played it at a review event as well as in...
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...