The reborn Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is off to a rough start if you’re an Xbox One X owner. Infinity Ward has identified a problem that leads to frequent crashing for some owners of Microsoft’s higher-end console, in some cases rendering the game virtually unplayable. There’s no timeline for the fix, but the developers said they were working with Microsoft to address the…
If you’re playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, it will look best on a gaming PC with Nvidia GeForce RTX hardware. I played the just-released first-person shooter game on the PlayStation 4 and have also started playing it on a Falcon Northwest Talon gaming PC with an…
Gothalion is the latest big Twitch streamer to switch to Mixer
October 27, 2019
Add another major streamer to the ranks of those jumping from Twitch to Mixer. Well-known Destiny streamer Cory “Gothalion” Michael (aka KingGothalion) has announced that he will exclusively stream on Mixer starting on October 29th. He explained it as not…
Fortnite’s blank screen propels a social video comeback
October 27, 2019
It’s an accomplishment to get millions of gamers to watch a blank screen, as Fortnite did during the weekend of October 12.
As audiences were expecting news about Season 11, they were met with a black hole and a blank screen — an explosion, then a significant amount of nothing. According to video measurement company Tubular Labs, Instagram and YouTube videos around the initial event collected…
Steam Remote Play Together sometimes stutters
October 25, 2019
Valve launched Remote Play Together for its Steam gaming service earlier this week. This feature enables you to stream a live local multiplayer session with your friends. So even if a game doesn’t have online multiplayer, you can still hop on with a buddy across the…
Twitch stripped Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek of his verified partner badge and his channel stopped showing up in the site’s search after the popular streamer and former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro announced yesterday that he was leaving the platform for…
Jaguar's 'first' all-electric hypercar exists only on your PS4
October 25, 2019
Jaguar has unveiled its first-ever electric hypercar. There’s just one catch: for the moment, it will only exist inside of Gran Turismo Sport. The all-wheel-drive Jaguar Vision Gran Turismo Coupé draws inspiration from the company’s past race vehicles, including the C-type and D-type.
In-game, the Vision’s three virtual motors will produce a combined output of 750kW…
GamesBeat Decides 129: Ubisoft and Last of Us: Part II delays
October 25, 2019
Somehow, October is almost over already. With 2019 barreling toward its demise, the GamesBeat Decides podcast is here to think for you so you can focus on finishing some games. On this week’s episode, reviews editor Mike Minotti talks more about Luigi’s Mansion 3. PC…
Everybody has a line. We all draw it in different ways. That’s the theme of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, this year’s first-person combat game from the Infinity Ward studio and big publisher Activision. But it’s also my own reaction from playing it, which has some of…
Why Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has torture, child combat, and shooting unarmed women
October 25, 2019
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has some of the most difficult scenes I have ever seen in a video game. When I saw a couple of the scenes during a preview in May, I felt like they went too far. The violence made me more than uncomfortable.
Now that I’ve played the full game (here is my full review), I would add another scene: the waterboarding of a freedom fighter by Russian captors. Taken by…
