Yearly Archives: 2021

Amazon Studios has revealed that its highly anticipated (but still untitled) series set in the world popularized by J.R.R. Tolkien's hugely influential high fantasy novel, The Lord of the Rings, will premiere Friday, September 2, 2022 on the Prime Video service for Amazon Prime members.

Microsoft has announced the general availability of its new cloud PC service, Windows 365.

As a follow-up to its Battlefield 1 promotion from July, Amazon is now offering free copies of DICE's previous Battlefield title, Battlefield V, to any and all Prime members.

Sony Pictures Entertainment has released a second official trailer for its upcoming Venom sequel, Venom: Let There Be Carnage.

Google has confirmed that it will be releasing two new Pixel smartphones this Fall called the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, both of which will leverage a brand-new system-on-a-chip (SoC) called the Google Tensor.

Valve has been spending some significant time over the past few years improving the state of gaming on the Linux platform with admirable initiatives such as Proton, a compatibility layer that allows many games that were originally developed for Windows to run on Linux-based operating systems.

YouTube currently offers a subscription service called YouTube Premium that allows subscribers to enjoy ad-free videos, ad-free music, and other perks such as the ability to download content to watch or listen to offline for $11.99 a month.

One of Microsoft's goals for Xbox Game Pass is to bring the Xbox experience and its library of games to as many users as possible by enabling the subscription service on an increasing number of platforms that already includes consoles, Windows 10 PCs, and Android devices with its cloud streaming technology.

Training Day writer David Ayer released Suicide Squad in 2016, a live-action adaption of DC Comic's popular team of disposable super villains that was heavily lambasted and chastised by both critics and fans for everything from poor editing to Jared Leto's polarizing depiction of a Joker with "Damaged" tattooed on his forehead.

As part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, McDonald's Australia (called "Macca's" locally) revealed last week that it had created 50 limited-edition PS5 DualSense controllers to give away as part of a special streaming event that would run through the week.

343 Industries could be the latest FPS developer to hop on the battle royale bandwagon. As spotted by a user on the ResetEra forums, data miners who have dug deep into the files for Halo Infinite's ongoing technical multiplayer preview have uploaded a voice clip of the classic Halo announcer saying "battle royale."

The capabilities of Intel's upcoming Thunderbolt 5 technology have leaked courtesy of one of the company's own executives, Gregory Bryant, who recently visited one of Intel's R&D facilities in Israel and accidentally shared photos on social media revealing some information that wasn't meant to be public.