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Xbox Game Pass has been bolstered recently by the addition of Bungie’s Destiny 2 title, xCloud game streaming, and Microsoft’s ZeniMax Media acquisition, the parent company of Doom and Fallout studio Bethesda Softworks. There is a variety of ways to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass across both console and PC, with the ability to just play games streamed through the cloud to an Android device. … [Read more...] about Xbox Game Pass subscribers jump 50 percent to 15 million in less than six months

Though it's much like the current Series 3 watch in appearance, the Watch SE contains a more powerful processor than Apple's older timepiece. The Series 3 dates back to 2017, so customers may well be reassured to know Apple is doing more than rebadging an old product; the company has given the gadget a much-needed internal refresh to make it relevant in 2020 and beyond. … [Read more...] about Apple Watch SE: If you’ve been holding out on buying a smartwatch, now could be the time

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO : President Joe Biden is hiring a group of national security veterans with deep cyber expertise, drawing praise from former defense officials and investigators as the US government works to recover from one of the biggest hacks of its agencies attributed to Russian spies. "It is great to see the priority that the new administration is giving to cyber," said Suzanne Spaulding, director of the Defending Democratic Institutions project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Cybersecurity was demoted as a policy field under the Trump administration. It discontinued the Cybersecurity Coordinator position at the White House, shrunk the State Department's cyber diplomacy wing, and fired federal cybersecurity leader Chris Krebs in the aftermath of Donald Trump's Nov. 3 election defeat. Disclosed in December, the hack struck eight federal agencies and numerous companies, including software provider SolarWinds Corp. US intelligence agencies publicly … [Read more...] about After big hack of US government, Biden enlists ‘world class’ cybersecurity team

Vicarious Visions, the studio that developed Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and the remake for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2, has been reassigned within Activision Blizzard, GamesIndustry.biz reports. Moving forward, the studio’s team of about 200 people will now be “fully dedicated to existing Blizzard games and initiatives.” That means for any games Vicarious Visions works on in the future, it will not serve as the lead development studio. … [Read more...] about Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 remake studio will now focus exclusively on Blizzard games

Beyond the numbers, Bungie has made clear that this was the direction it was headed. As I reported back in May, when Bungie first unveiled Destiny 2, it was always the plan to turn the sequel into more of a social hobby instead of a second job. It inspired ridicule among the most cynical players in the community when Bungie community manager David “Deej” Dague wrote last week that “the ultimate loot is the friendships that can grow out of a game like this.” Yet he was making as much a philosophical argument for the game’s purpose as he was defending his employer’s decisions, which have come under constant fire from the vocal minority on Reddit and elsewhere. … [Read more...] about Destiny 2’s biggest achievement is that it fits into your life