[ad_1] It’s not certain why this mode got the cut where other changes didn’t, but it may be a simple matter of concentrating on what BFV does best. The Battlefield series is defined by large-scale multiplayer bouts, and even the Firestorm battle royale mode lines up with that philosophy. Intimate ten-player matches? Not so much […]
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‘El Hijo’ is a Spaghetti Western stealth game with heart
[ad_1] El Hijo is an isometric stealth game starring this 6-year-old as he traverses the desert, searching for his mother. She left him at a monastery, for his own protection, after their Wild West village was ransacked by outlaws. El Hijo — Spanish for “The Son” — decides to escape the monks, and the only […]
The best external graphics card enclosure
[ad_1] Why you should trust us I spent more than six years testing, reviewing, and otherwise writing about PCs and other gadgets for AnandTech and Ars Technica, and I’ve put in almost two years doing the same thing for Wirecutter. Much of that work has involved testing the performance of processors and graphics chips. I’ve […]
Tactics’ and the evolution of Netflix’s video game strategy
[ad_1] Netflix has even bigger plans for the future, though its ambition remains largely tied to the Stranger Things franchise. It hired Telltale Games to make a more complex narrative adventure set in the Duffer brothers’ universe, but that project fell through when the studio shut down in 2018. There’s still a location-based, augmented-reality Stranger […]
The Morning After: iPhone ‘Pro’ rumors
[ad_1] The end of XS.Rumors point to iPhone ‘Pro,’ new iPad and 16-inch MacBook Pro As usual, we’re expecting a slew of new hardware from Apple this fall, and according to Bloomberg that will include a new Pro variant of the iPhone to replace the XS and XS Max. So what could make it worthy […]
‘Blair Witch’ expertly remixes horror gaming’s greatest hits
[ad_1] Blair Witch, the video game, is terrifying. Developed by Bloober Team, the studio behind Layers of Fear, Blair Witch is a mosaic of modern tropes culled from the most nightmarish horror games of the past decade. It has a camcorder mechanic, a lot like Outlast; it uses a flashlight as a demon deterrent, à […]
Google, Intel and Microsoft form data protection consortium
[ad_1] Some of the early contributions include a Microsoft framework that helps you write code to run inside Trusted Execution Environments, an Intel framework for protecting code at the hardware level and a Red Hat tool that abstracts secure environments to the point where you can create and run private “serverless” apps. Appropriately, the Linux […]
Microsoft tests more control for apps that restart with Windows 10
[ad_1] As part of the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Build (build 18965, if you’re counting), Microsoft is testing a new setting that gives Windows users more explicit control over whether their apps automatically launch when they restart their PC. Outside of the latest Preview Build, the option that controls app restart behaviour is bundled […]
MSI’s new ‘content creator’ laptops are powered by Intel’s 10th-gen chips
[ad_1] The new laptops pack powerful guts, but also offer colorful, accurate screens to cater to creators’ workflows. MSI made what it’s calling True Pixel displays that render 100 percent of the Adobe RGB wide color gamut, and have a Delta-E color accuracy rating of less than two (the closer to 0 the better). The […]
Google Docs ‘live edits’ feature helps the visually impaired
[ad_1] Designed to be used with screen readers or Braille displays, the Live Edits sidebar lists real-time updates made on a document by others, allowing these changes to be read aloud by a user’s preferred voice device. You can follow a single collaborator, or track changes made by everyone working on the document. The feature […]