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- Call of Duty: Vanguard brings the series back to WWII in November
- Call of Duty: Warzone and Destiny are making moves to fight cheaters
- Quake gets a visual overhaul on Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch for its 25th birthday
- Justice Department says facial recognition helped end an almost 15-year manhunt
- Twitter is testing a newsletter subscription button on profile pages
- Razer Hammerhead True Wireless (2021) review: ANC with a colorful light show
- HP Pavilion Aero 13 review: budget Envy
- Toyota to reduce production in Japan and North America due to chip shortage
- Google secretly had a giant gaming vision that includes bringing games to Mac
- Apple’s new Foundation trailer has some serious ‘Game of Thrones but in space’ energy
| Call of Duty: Vanguard brings the series back to WWII in November Posted: 19 Aug 2021 10:45 AM PDT  As expected, Sledgehammer Games officially announced the next Call of Duty with the reveal of Vanguard, which will be launching in November. The new shooter is set during World War II and will feature a "historically inspired" single-player campaign, along with a multiplayer mode and integration with Call of Duty: Zombies and Warzone. The announcement comes as Sledgehammer's parent company Activision Blizzard, and in particular Overwatch developer Blizzard, has come under fire for a culture of sexual harassment, spurred by a lawsuit filed by the state of California. Since then employees have staged a walkout and multiple high-profile developers at Blizzard have left the studio, including president J. Allen Brack. During a meeting with...  |
| Call of Duty: Warzone and Destiny are making moves to fight cheaters Posted: 19 Aug 2021 10:45 AM PDT  Alongside its reveal of Call of Duty: Vanguard, Activision Blizzard announced that Call of Duty: Warzone, its popular, free-to-play battle royale, will receive an update later this year that weaves a new "multi-faceted" anti-cheat system into the game. It will arrive alongside a brand-new map that's currently in development by Raven Studios, though the system will work across all of Warzone. Cheating has been a huge problem for Warzone since it launched in early 2020, as it is for almost every online competitive game, yet Activision Blizzard's attempts to thwart cheaters — particularly in ranked matches — haven't worked. The company hasn't detailed exactly how its new system aims to succeed where it hasn't before, as well as whether it's...  |
| Quake gets a visual overhaul on Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch for its 25th birthday Posted: 19 Aug 2021 10:44 AM PDT  QuakeCon, the annual fan convention for the legendary first-person shooter, was canceled last year during the pandemic, but it's back today with a nailgun-like bang. Machine Games and id Software have teamed up to create a visually enhanced version of the original Quake game, after June 22nd marked the 25th anniversary of the game's release. It's the classic Quake, run-and-gun combat through medieval mazes with nailguns, grenade launchers, and shotguns, but it's all in 4K with widescreen support, online multiplayer, and even new expansion packs. The original version of Quake is now available on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch, complete with up to 4K support, widescreen resolutions, enhanced models, dynamic lighting,...  |
| Justice Department says facial recognition helped end an almost 15-year manhunt Posted: 19 Aug 2021 10:23 AM PDT  A fugitive who Justice Department officials say had scammed more than 20 people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday, after being on the run for almost 15 years. Austrian authorities were able to identify Randy Levine, 54, of Boca Raton, Florida, due to a facial recognition system according to the DOJ, after he tried to use an alias to open a bank account, leading to his arrest in June 2020. Levine fled the US in 2005, after authorities seized his passport as part of an investigation into an alleged scam he had been running, the DOJ said in a release. According to Levine's plea agreement, which he signed in May, he would offer to set up gambling accounts for people if they sent him...  |
| Twitter is testing a newsletter subscription button on profile pages Posted: 19 Aug 2021 10:02 AM PDT  Twitter is testing a feature that makes it even more enticing to use its recently acquired Revue newsletter platform: the ability to subscribe to a newsletter directly from a Twitter profile, without having to follow a link to a separate website. The feature can be enabled by all Revue newsletter writers, but the button is initially only being shown to a test group of Twitter users on Android and the web. The subscribe button has to be turned on in Revue's settings before it can show up on Twitter. Visually, the new button and newsletter card appear underneath your Twitter bio almost like a pinned tweet, populated with the title of your Revue newsletter, a photo, a short description, and the actual subscribe button. Tapping the button...  |
| Razer Hammerhead True Wireless (2021) review: ANC with a colorful light show Posted: 19 Aug 2021 10:00 AM PDT |
| HP Pavilion Aero 13 review: budget Envy Posted: 19 Aug 2021 09:59 AM PDT |
| Toyota to reduce production in Japan and North America due to chip shortage Posted: 19 Aug 2021 09:55 AM PDT  Toyota said Thursday that it would reduce production in Japan and North America due to a shortage of semiconductor chips, a sign that even the best-run supply chains are being affected by the shortage. In Japan, the automaker will reduce production by 40 percent later this month and into September, which will affect most of its production lines, the The Wall Street Journal reported; planned reductions in North America will be between 40 and 60 percent in August. The reductions mean Toyota will produce between 60,000 and 90,000 fewer vehicles. "Due to COVID-19 and unexpected events with our supply chain, Toyota is experiencing additional shortages that will affect production at most of our North American plants," the company said in a...  |
| Google secretly had a giant gaming vision that includes bringing games to Mac Posted: 19 Aug 2021 09:25 AM PDT  Apple's Mac has long been an afterthought for the video game industry, and few think of Google as a games company — despite running Android, one of the biggest game platforms in the world. But Google had a plan to change those things in October 2020, according to an explicitly confidential 70-page vision document dubbed "Games Futures." The "need-to-know" document, which was caught up in the discovery process when Epic Games hauled Apple into court, reveals a tentative five-year plan to create what Google dubbed "the world's largest games platform." Google imagined presenting game developers with a single place they can target gamers across multiple screens including Windows and Mac, as well as smart displays — all tied together by...  |
| Apple’s new Foundation trailer has some serious ‘Game of Thrones but in space’ energy Posted: 19 Aug 2021 09:16 AM PDT  Apple has released a new trailer for Foundation, its upcoming epic sci-fi show for Apple TV Plus based on Isaac Asimov's series of novels, and I'm getting some serious "Game of Thrones but in space" energy from it. There are vast (space) vistas, a sweeping soundtrack, numerous shots of people making very serious faces, and dramatic proclamations that wouldn't be out of place in an early episode of Game of Thrones:
And you know what? That's fine with me. For me, nothing has replicated the excellence of the first few seasons of Game of Thrones. Their gripping action, shocking twists, and captivating power struggles made...  |
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