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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare multiplayer impressions — A romp through a battlefield playground

October 24, 2019
While the single-player campaign of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is intense, ponderous, and serious, the tone of multiplayer combat the opposite. It’s a romp through a battlefield playground, where players shriek for joy whenever they get a kill. I’ve played the full single-player campaign and a number of matches in multiplayer, both with the beta test for multiplayer and with the final code…
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Google Stadia’s first game-dev studio opens in Montreal

October 24, 2019
Google is launching its cloud-gaming service Stadia on November 19. The company is positioning this as the first giant leap into a console-less future. But one thing that will help Stadia succeed is marquee, exclusive content. So hopefully Google is starting to make some of…
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare — The single-player campaign begins with a couple of blasts

October 24, 2019
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare starts out with a notice that says it has mature content. You have to click on it where it says, “I understand.” That is your last chance to turn around before you get sucked into the enthralling but brutal story of modern war. Then it begins by grabbing your attention. A suicide bomber steps out of a truck into Piccadilly Circus in London. He holds a detonator in…
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GameStop may begin selling Call of Duty: Modern Warfare early

October 24, 2019
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launches tonight for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 when the clock strikes midnight. But you probably don’t have to wait until October 25 to start playing the military shooter. If you purchase it digitally, Activision plans to unlock the game…
AI & RoboticsNews

Incode raises $10 million to verify identities with AI

October 24, 2019
Incode, a San Francisco startup developing what it describes as an omnichannel biometric identity platform, today announced that it’s raised $10 million in seed funding from undisclosed investors. Founder and CEO Ricardo Amper said that the newfound capital will enable…
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Mike Ybarra joins Blizzard after years as Xbox services boss

October 24, 2019
Blizzard Entertainment is getting a new executive from Microsoft. Mike Ybarra is taking on the role of executive vice president and general manager at the Overwatch and World of Warcraft publisher. This comes two weeks after Ybarra left his long-time position on Microsoft’s Xbox team. Ybarra made the announcement in a statement on Twitter. In that tweet, the Blizzard boss said that he is…
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Microsoft used magnets to make its Surface Laptop 3 more repairable

October 24, 2019
When Microsoft introduced the Surface Laptop 3 earlier this month, Chief Product Officer Panos Panay casually lifted its top assembly (the part that contains the keyboard) on stage to show that it was designed better than its predecessors. Now, iFixit’s teardown has proven that it truly is quite easy to open the device, which could mean not just a more repairable laptop, but an overall…
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