Anybody wanna see a Ms. Pac-Man kill screen? Okay, so the game doesn’t have a kill screen, but thanks to Microsoft we’re able to see what happens when someone, in this case something, scores one million points. Zero is what happens, as in the game flips over to a nil score. While … | Continue reading
Killer Instinct Season 2 developer Iron Galaxy recently revealed its upcoming fantasy game Extinction, which bore more than a passing resemblance to Attack on Titan with its player character fighting giants in a village full of crumbling buildings. Now publisher Maximum Games has … | Continue reading
Google has announced plans to release a new Backup and Sync app for PC and Mac users for backing up files, replacing the current Google Drive app. | Continue reading
At least 17 people have been killed and 20 held hostage Wednesday in an attack claimed by Islamist militant group al-Shabaab on a popular restaurant in Mogadishu.The attack began Wednesday evening local time after a car bomb was detonated outside Pizza House, a popular restaurant … | Continue reading
What We’re FollowingShots Fired: House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was among five people shot during a Republican congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, marking the first shooting that’s targeted a federal legislator in six years. President Trump praised Capitol … | Continue reading
Today in 5 LinesPresident Trump called for national unity after a gunman attacked a GOP congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia. The gunman, identified as James Hodgkinson, shot five people, including Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who hospital officials said remain … | Continue reading
Trucker Path, a three-year-old, Mountain View-based platform that helps connect drivers, brokers, shippers, and carriers, has just lined up $30 million in debt funding so it can start loaning some of those truckers money right after they deliver their freight. It’s seemingly a … | Continue reading
Back in August of 2016, we wrote a story about Rovio soft-launching Angry Birds Evolution [Free], and after a year in soft launch purgatory, the game is now out in the US. If you haven't heard anything about Angry Birds Evolution (or you're confusing it with one of the many other … | Continue reading
The internet has given us many wonderful things: social connectivity; convenience in shopping, banking, and education; immediate news; and so on. Something that does not fall into this category is the nauseating clickbait headline. You know the ones: “What you’ll read next will s … | Continue reading
HTC is back at E3 this year for its sophomore turn at the gaming expo, after its first show in 2016 following closely on the heels of the Vive VR headset’s consumer launch. I spoke to HTC VP of VR Dan O’Brien at this year’s E3, to find out a bit about how the company sees the ma … | Continue reading
Sony is giving away clean versions of its movies, as a free extra, in a blatant cash-grab. The free part makes it sound like the company is doing us a favor; you don’t have to watch it but it’s there if you want it. That sounds great when you think of it in terms of watching Spid … | Continue reading
American insurance giant AIG has made what appears to be its first foray into blockchain, completing a trial with Standard Chartered today.Source | Continue reading
In an attempt to even the playing field with competitors, Mozilla Firefox stepped up its game Tuesday by releasing an update that will increase browser speeds and cut down on memory usage.Firefox 54 has opened up its upper limit of processes from one to four, although users can c … | Continue reading
Telltale has plans to release an original IP title, but the episodic adventure game developer still has lots of licensed projects in its future. | Continue reading
The Nativ Vita music player looks like a tablet, except all you can do with it is play and control music. The 11.6-inch, 1920 x 1080 touchscreen device has onboard storage to host your digital music collection and can also access various streaming platforms, like Apple Music, Spo … | Continue reading
Netmarble is working on an open-world mobile action-RPG in the Lineage series for mobile, and have soft launched it on iOS. Lineage2 Revolution will have you playing in real-time with other people, undergoing quests, fighting monsters, teaming up with others for raids, and more. … | Continue reading
Bitcoin prices continued to edge lower after setting a new all-time high this weekend. Other cryptocurrencies saw a similar shift into the red today.Source | Continue reading
Jaguar Land Rover has brought two new startups into its Portland Tech Incubator: LISNR and PILOT Automotive Labs. Previous cohorts at the incubator have ranged from parking apps to drones; these two continue to build on JLR’s creative approach to the automotive future. LISNR use … | Continue reading
One day, we’ll have an entire Tumblr account for hilarious VR accidents, but until then, George Takei’s Facebook account will have to do. Takei, the Star Trek alum and current boss of sharing things on Facebook, recently shared a video of a man attempting to conquer a virtual cli … | Continue reading
Popular survival shooter PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is getting a new competitive mode where some players are zombies trying to infect the last surviving humans.As revealed on a Twitch stream earlier, this upcoming mode will be separate from the game's core Battle Royale mode, … | Continue reading
CaSA - Colombo and Serboli Architecture dark apartment into an open-spaced two-bedrooms home with a large living space and bespoke features. | Continue reading
Logitech has developed a wireless mouse charging system that can charge your mouse even while you're gaming. It's not cheap, but it neatly solves the battery life problem inherent to the wireless system. The post New Logitech Mouse Pad Offers Wireless Charging for Supported Mice … | Continue reading
Interview with Eddy Colloton This is the first in a series of interviews with people using MediaConch within their institutions. Eddy Colloton is Assistant Conservator specializing in electronic media at the Denver Art Museum (DAM). DAM is planning to use MediaConch primarily for … | Continue reading
If you like your Hearthstone [Free] classes mixed up or want to get a taste of how two-class decks would look, go play Cart Crash at the Crossroads, this week's Tavern Brawl. We've played this one in the past, but as is the case after every expansion, new cards make for fresh bra … | Continue reading
Consumers trust companies less than ever before. In that maelstrom, ratings and reviews are a life raft of information. | Continue reading
Supercell, the developers behind Clash of Clans and Clash Royale, have announced its next mobile game: a multiplayer combat title called Brawl Stars. | Continue reading
A terrifying scene unfolded in London early Wednesday morning when a 24-floor public housing tower went up in flames. Home to around 600 people, West London’s Grenfell Tower was the site of a fire that spread quickly to other floors, causing at least six fatalities so far, with t … | Continue reading
Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto has given an update to Eurogamer on his long-awaited next Pikmin project.Speaking to me today at E3, Miyamoto did not give much away - but confirmed the project was still in development."I've been told not to share anything about this from PR," Mi … | Continue reading
As was to be expected, Michael Bay's Transformers: The Last Knight, whose trailer looks like five movies combined into one, is paying a visit to Transformers: Forged to Fight [Free] in an update that's gone live today. This new update brings backgrounds inspired from various scen … | Continue reading
With the wildly successful press reception of ATB Сoin’s U.S. introductory launch last Thursday, the company’s Management Team is reporting over $12 million has been raised within the first fifteen minutes of the cryptocurrency’s highly-anticipated ICO. According to CEO Edward Ng … | Continue reading
Oftentimes, the best way to describe directions to someone is to explain using street view technology, so you can use notable landmarks as cues for turns and stops. While Google Maps has been pretty good at covering a large part of the world, it’s certainly missing one useful com … | Continue reading
You love your iPhone: the form factor, the user interface, the just straight-up coolness of it all. But a peek into the early days of the now-ubiquitous device reveals a startling truth. It was almost awful. SEE ALSO: This could be our first look at the iPhone 8's glorious edge-t … | Continue reading
Whisky in Antarctica In March, I boarded a ship to Antarctica to shoot a documentary on climate change. The Ocean Endeavor departed from Ushuaia, on the southernmost tip of Argentina, and sailed around West Antarctica for 10 days. My fellow passengers were a strange mix of scient … | Continue reading
At least 300 people have been killed in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, ISIS’s de-facto capital, since March in what UN war-crimes investigators have called a “staggering loss of civilian life.”The surge in fatalities coincides with intensified airstrikes by the Syrian Democra … | Continue reading
Fugia is only a teenager, but her sense of ambition is tangible. Just 15 years old, she has plans to be a doctor, and she understands education is the surest path to achieving her dream.But getting an education isn't easy. Fugia, whose parents are Somalian, is a refugee growing u … | Continue reading
The latest beta version of Nova Launcher offers users integration with Google Feed for the first time, via a companion app. | Continue reading
Google Drive is ready to be the answer to all your computer storage needs — and not just the files you create and upload using its cloud-based services like Google Docs and Photos. The search giant just announced a new Backup and Sync tool, which will give everyday users the chan … | Continue reading
If you want a fun game about launching a slingshotting cat through a psychedelic landscape, but don't want to pay anything, then I have good news for you! Star Cat Adventure [Free] is free today! You launch yourself from miniature planet to minature planet, collecting stars and e … | Continue reading
In the perhaps not-so-distant future, drones could be first responders.That's the conclusion from a report published Tuesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) following a simulated study involving drones carrying defibrillators in Sweden.SEE ALSO: Scientis … | Continue reading
Now it’s the GOP’s turn. “I can only hope that the Democrats do tone down the rhetoric,” said New York Republican Congressman Chris Collins after the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and five others at an Alexandria, Virginia baseball field. “The rhetoric has been ou … | Continue reading
If you paid close attention to the 9-minute Spider-Man demo at Sony’s E3 2017 event, you might have noticed the superhero knocking a goon off a skyscraper — only to sling him safely back onto the building. Bryan Intihar, creative director of Insomniac Games, explained that the ga … | Continue reading
Fantastic Four and X-Men: The Last Stand screenwriter Simon Kinberg has been tapped to direct the upcoming X-Men: Dark Phoenix movie for 20th Century Fox. Entertainment Weekly reports that it’s Kinberg’s directorial debut after producing several films in the X-Men universe, inclu … | Continue reading
The potential for VR truly boggles the mind. In the future, it’s easy to imagine the various use-cases in education, entertainment, business, and social. But like any new technology, VR needs a ‘gateway drug’, and thus far that initial use-case has been gaming. Sony is pushing P … | Continue reading
At long last, the perfect score for arcade classic Ms. Pac-Man has been achieved, though not by a human. Maluuba — a deep learning team acquired by Microsoft in January — has created an AI system that’s learned how to reach the game’s maximum point value of 999,900, using a uniqu … | Continue reading
Plugging things in is no fun, especially when a certain company refuses to embrace industry-standard plugs. Wireless charging is an obvious solution, which has been embraced by many Android manufacturers but has remained conspicuously absent from the iPhone. That might be about t … | Continue reading
Happy National Strawberry Shortcake Day, everyone. Sorry this Wednesday roundup is coming a little later than usual, Jared has the day off and I've been sort of glued to the new Brawl Stars stuff Supercell has been teasing. It's by Supercell, so, you know it's going to be the nex … | Continue reading
In the final days of 2016, President Barack Obama made a final addition to the conserved lands of the United States.He brought Bears Ears National Monument into existence, designating a new federally protected area of more than 1.3 million acres in southeast Utah. The park, Obama … | Continue reading
Less than 24 hours after her exit from Yahoo, it seemed like former CEO Marissa Mayer was taking a shot at her old company.But, she says, her words were simply taken out of context.At a conference in London, Mayer, who had worked at Google before jumping to Yahoo, reportedly said … | Continue reading