It was round 11 in a tight series when Ben “Bance” Bance made the call for the Toronto Ultra. He and the team were going to plant the bomb at site A on Moscow and they were going to do it aggressively. It was the first step toward winning the Call of Duty League Stage […]
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Life is almost normal inside the Rainbow Six Pro League Las Vegas bubble
Joseph “Phozzo” Eisenmann was nervous on the drive from his team house to the strip in Las Vegas. He was headed for the first in-person Rainbow Six Pro League match since lockdown orders began last year. “There were a few nerves before the game,” he told me. “But I was more excited than anything else.” […]
Inside the Neopets ‘black market’
The Neopets “black market” is not a scary place — there are no poorly lit alleyways to walk through, no strangers shrouded in dark clothing. In fact, the black market looks a lot like the other parts of the community; players on forums and Discord servers who are passionate about the mostly broken Neopets website. […]
Inside Twitter’s growing interest in Google Cloud
Twitter earlier this month announced it would be expanding its partnership with Google, moving more data and workloads from its servers to the Google Data Cloud. While Twitter doesn’t yet have plans to port its entire infrastructure to the cloud, its growing relationship with Google’s Data Cloud highlights some of the key challenges companies face […]
You Can Play PS5 Inside This "Luxury 7-Eleven" Before It Opens (Because Why Not?)
7-Eleven is teaming up with PlayStation to offer a bizarre, overnight gaming experience to a couple of lucky fans. As if that collaboration wasn’t strange enough, Airbnb and even Dak Prescott are also getting in on the action. The popular convenience store is gearing up to open another 7-Eleven Evolution Store – one of only six […]
A Look Inside Consumer Perceptions of Oculus Go
The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox. Email Address More than just the latest in a long line of niche gadgets, Oculus Go represents the linchpin of Facebook’s lofty goal of putting […]
Relive Jurassic Park Inside Half-Life 2 With This New Mod
There is a new Half-Life 2 mod on the horizon – one that lets you explore Jurassic Park pretty much in its entirety. Jurassic Life is an entirely fan-made project led by a modest but super driven group of modders, who have spent an unbelievable number of years carefully recreating (and reinventing) the classic Jurassic Park world using the Source engine. The development […]