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The big picture: John Roach, a key figure in helping popularize the home computer in the late 70s, died this week at the age of 83. Roach joined the Tandy Corporation in 1967 at a time when it still focused exclusively on leather goods. The newcomer had experience working with mainframes in college years earlier,…

A sequel to Call of Duty: Warzone and 2019’s Modern Warfare, have been revealed. Here are all the newest details.By DeVante Chisolm on February 11, 2022 at 2:42PM PST In this video, DeVante talks about a sequel to Call of Duty: Warzone and 2019’s Modern Warfare being revealed. According to Activision, the sequels to Modern…

Smilegate’s recently released PC game Lost Ark continues to soar on Steam, recently surpassing 1.3 million concurrent players on its way to becoming Steam’s second most-popular game of all time based on player numbers. Lost Ark is also only the fifth game ever to pass 1 million concurrent players on Steam, the others being Cyberpunk…

If there’s one game series that sets a fire in the hearts of gamers, it’s Dark Souls. The franchise has become synonymous with intense difficulty, it’s lack of desire to be inviting to new players, and it’s polarized reception by gamers. So, to prove her skill in time for Elden Ring, producer Jessie Earl dove…

What just happened? Amazon Games boss Mike Frazzini is stepping away from the division he helped create at the e-commerce giant. Frazzini told Amazon last Friday that he was leaving to focus on his family. In a statement to Bloomberg, Amazon spokesperson Ryan Jones said Frazzini’s leadership and perseverance helped build their games business from…

Facepalm: A few weeks ago, a Nintendo fan at Comfort Food Video Games uploaded a high-quality scan of the Super Mario 64 Complete Clear Guide, an officially-licensed guidebook released in Japan in 1996. It was super cool since copies of the book can cost hundreds on eBay. Besides containing tips and tricks to completing the…

Forward-looking: Intel’s marketing teams are going into overdrive this week ahead of the imminent launches of the mobile Arc Alchemist GPUs and a new flagship desktop CPU, the i9-12900KS. They put together a Bender video to give us a taste of Arc, and it’s looking pretty quick. Intel VP Lisa Pearce recently said that the…

Jordan Peele’s upcoming horror movie, Nope, has premiered its first trailer on Super Bowl Sunday, showcasing a terrifying threat from the sky. Check out the trailer below. Nope stars Kiki Palmer and Daniel Kaluuya as Jill and James Haywood, owners of the only Black-owned horse training ranch in Hollywood, and while the details of the…

From Han Solo’s DL-44 pistol to the Stormtrooper’s E-11 Blaster, the Star Wars universe is full of iconic firearms. In this extended chat from our previous Star Wars episode, Keeper of Firearms & Artillery Jonathan Ferguson breaks down some of the franchise’s iconic weapons and details the behind the scenes stories that led to their…

Thanks to the success of Lost Ark, publisher Amazon Games’ general terms of use have been recirculated, with players noticing one section in particular pertaining to how you must be a human, and not an AI (good or evil) to play the company’s games. The terms also explain what would happen if aliens, robots, or…