For months, the CDC has warned people against vaping until it could determine the cause of a mysterious vaping-related lung injury. Now, the CDC confirms speculation that vitamin E acetate is “closely associated” with EVALI, or e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury.
A new clinical study analyzed samples from 51 EVALI patients and a comparison group…
Henry Cavill is right — in 2019, Total War: Warhammer is great
December 20, 2019
Creative Assembly’s Total War: Warhammer franchise has seemed to be quiet recently (apart from a shout-out from Witcher star Henry Cavill). IIts last new faction expansion, which is arguably the most newsworthy postrelease addition for a strategy game, was over a year ago.
Google Stadia achievements are live on the web, but not in the app
December 20, 2019
Google is slowly but surely expanding Stadia’s feature set. The Stream Connect split-screen mode emerged with the release of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint on the service this week, and now another aspect of the service is live: achievements. You’ll…
Epic Games Store celebrates the holidays with 12 free games
December 20, 2019
Fancy a few extra games to play over the holiday season? Start logging into the Epic Games Store. The deep-pocketed Fortnite developer is celebrating the festive season with 12 free games between December 19th and January 1st, 2020. A new offering will pop up each day — the first was the excellent turn-based strategy title Into the Breach, by FTL: Faster Than Light developer Subset Games…
Steam is, once again, poised to make a dent on your holiday budget. Valve’s gaming platform has launched its Winter Sale for the year, and it includes some of the most popular titles for 2019. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, which won Game of the Year at the recent Game…
Twitch is the undisputed ruler of the livestreaming-video space, but competitors are starting to make gains. Mixer and Facebook Gaming are both up year-over-year in terms of market share, according to data-tracking service Arsenal.gg and broadcasting-production-tools company…
Fortnite lost 28% of its viewership hours on Twitch in 2019
December 19, 2019
Fortnite is still one of the most popular games in the world, but it has definitely lost some of the unprecedented momentum that it had throughout 2018. This led to League of Legends reclaiming Twitch’s most watched game, according to data-tracking service Arsenal.gg. Fortnite finished at No. 2 with its hours watched dropping 28% year-over-year. Here’s the full chart from Arsenal and…
Fortnite lost 28% of its viewership hours on Twitch in 2019
December 19, 2019
Fortnite is still one of the most popular games in the world, but it has definitely lost some of the unprecedented momentum that it had throughout 2018. This led to League of Legends reclaiming Twitch’s most watched game, according to data-tracking service Arsenal.gg.
We knew it was coming, and now the multiplayer mode for Mario Kart Tour has arrived just in time for the holidays — but it’s only in beta and it’s only available to Gold Pass holders.
Mario Kart Tour was released for iOS and Android in September, but…
As 2019 winds down, it’s a time of reflection on the year that was, which includes how we used products and services. Spotify, for instance, has long offered a way to see your most-played songs of the year. Now, Nintendo’s getting in on the action with its own year-in-review tool for Switch.
It starts by going all the way back to the first day you used the hybrid console, even if it…