April 29, 2020 Apple will pay $18 million to settle broken FaceTime suit Apple has agreed to pay $18 million to settle a case accusing the company of intentionally breaking FaceTime on iOS 6. The class action…
April 29, 2020 Universal’s plans for more ‘premium VOD’ push AMC to drop its movies Earlier today the Wall Street Journal reported that a direct-to-home release of Trolls World Tour earlier this month netted Universal more revenue than the…
April 29, 2020 Google is killing its experimental social network Shoelace Google’s experimental Area 120 unit launched Shoelace in mid-2019 as a way to help people get together in real life. Unfortunately, the fledgling social…
April 29, 2020 Everybody and Their Mom Watched Trolls World Tour, Apparently Though trolls are generally a social menace we would all do well to keep out of our lives, recent events led to Dreamworks raking…
April 28, 2020 Lego’s New Harry Potter Sets Finally Give the World Centaur Minifigures Despite no new movies or books on the immediate horizon, the Harry Potter universe is so expansive there’s no shortage of locales or characters…
April 28, 2020 Report: Uber CTO Resigns Amid Plans to Slash Up to a Fifth of the Company’s Employees Taxi-hailing service Uber, which has been hemorrhaging billions for years and in the last few months has been hammered hard by the coronavirus pandemic,…
April 28, 2020 The 2021 Oscars Could Be the Weirdest Oscars Ever The movie industry has been turned upside down, and the people behind Hollywood’s most prestigious awards ceremony are scrambling to recalibrate. Today, the Academy…
April 28, 2020 Dead Space ideas came from game-design team’s ‘horror competition’ Striking Distance founder Glen Schofield talks about how creators find inspiration at GamesBeat Summit 2020. He draws from Dead Space and Call of Duty.Read…
April 28, 2020 The reigning Overwatch League MVP is switching to ‘Valorant’ For Blizzard and Overwatch, a professional esports league has always been a huge part of its strategy, and now other games are competing for…
April 28, 2020 Lincoln cancels its Rivian-based EV due to COVID-19 The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to another car cancellation: Lincoln’s Rivian-based electric SUV. After a report in Automotive News, Lincoln has confirmed to…