After months of speculation, “Fortnite’s” Season Three is close to wrapping up and the tiny star in the distant sky has grown to become a massive comet. In recent weeks, the occasional meteor shower started dusting the sky as gamers played matches. Thursday, meteors began streaking from the sky and smashing into the ground all over the map during play […]

Update: Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is out now on iOS and Android. You can watch the launch trailer for the game – which allows players to become a student at the prestigious Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry – below: Original story (April 5): The new Harry Potter mobile game Hogwarts Mystery has been picking up hype over the way […]

Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima, who took on the role after the death of Satoru Iwata in 2015, announced his retirement today, saying he believes the company needs to be led by younger management. Shuntaro Furukawa, 46, will replace the 68-year-old Kimishima on June 28. The news comes as Nintendo announces it more than doubled its revenue through strong Nintendo Switch […]

Smart speaker maker Sonos is looking to go public as early as June, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The company has confidentially filed with the SEC for a public offering and is looking to be valued as much as $3 billion, according to the paper. Sonos has been mulling over an IPO for some time, in part to raise […]

Loot boxes in gaming have been a controversial subject for a while, but it wasn’t until last year’s Star Wars Battlefront II that they exploded into mainstream awareness. Basically, loot boxes are digital crates of in-game items that can be bought for real-world cash. Sometimes they can contain useful upgrades and sometimes they can just be filled with cosmetic items. […]

Gmail has begun rolling out a major update. A certain amount of hyperventilation is to be expected when a service used by 1.4 billion people changes anything. I'm here to report it's going to be OK. Truth be told, when Google first showed me the redesign, I thought: Who asked for this? It's like Gmail got a facelift to look […]

Dave Rocco will be leaving the company to take a role at Universal Music Group, sources tell Variety. While his title was not specified at press time, it will involve digital and streaming promotion and marketing. Along with Universal’s recent hire of Celine Joshua — who joined the company late in February with the unwieldy title of General Manager, Commercial, Content and […]

The notorious revenge porn website Anon-IB, which has been linked to celebrity nude photo hacks, has been taken down, marking a victory for human rights advocates and people affected by the site. Anon-IB – also known as the “Best Anonymous Image Board” – appears to have been seized by Dutch law enforcement authorities, Vice’s tech site Motherboard reported Wednesday. When […]

Bandai Namco, publisher of the “Tekken” and “Soulcalibur” series, is partnering with independent developer DigixArt and “Wallace & Gromit” creator Aardman Animation Studios on a new story-driven World War I adventure game called “11-11: Memories Retold,” the companies announced Wednesday. As of right now, details on “11-11” are relatively scant, but based on the game’s reveal trailer (seen below) it […]

While you might think that your hotel room is safe, a worrying study has revealed just how easy it is for hackers to open your room door. In the study, researchers from F-Secure were able to develop a ‘master key’ that unlocks millions of hotel room doors in thousands of hotels around the world – including those run by well-known […]