Of all celebrity deaths — Robert Redford, Gene Hackman — just one has hit us like a depth charge. A week ago, Diane Keaton, beloved actress and many other things, left us at 79 years old. She was an absolute delight. For a celebrity never to have a bad word said about them is a rarity. But Keaton lit up …
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If life on Mars exists, it may be preserved in a frozen time capsule
If life ever existed on Mars, traces of it might still be frozen beneath the planet’s icy surface. A new study from NASA and Penn State University suggests fragments of biomolecules from ancient microbes could survive in Martian ice for tens of millions of years — long enough for future missions to potentially find them, according to a statement from …
Read More »Battlefield’s Boss Says COD Exists ‘Cause ‘EA Were Dicks’
Call of Duty has been such a staple of gaming that it’s hard to imagine a time when it wasn’t a household name. But way before its yearly release cycle kicked in and modern and futuristic settings became CoD’s bread and butter, even before the franchise made its debut and was largely about simulating World War II battles, there was …
Read More »‘The Only Reason Call of Duty Exists Is Because EA Were Dicks,’ Battlefield Boss Vince Zampella Says
Battlefield boss Vince Zampella has said that Activision’s best-selling Call of Duty franchise only exists “because EA were dicks.” It’s an eye-opening but typically frank statement from Zampella, who is of course now an EA employee himself once again. Over his career, Zampella has ping-ponged between rival publishers EA and Activision, working first on EA’s Medal of Honor series, then …
Read More »Call Of Duty Exists Because “EA Were Dicks,” Says Vince Zampella
In 2003, Vince Zampella and his Infinity Ward co-founders unleashed the original Call of Duty after previously shepherding EA’s Medal of Honor franchise. The latter never reached the heights of the former, and according to Zampella, Call of Duty would have never come into being if EA hadn’t come into conflict with his team. “The only reason that Call of …
Read More »Call of Duty only exists because “EA were dicks”, claims Battlefield lead Vince Zampella
Head of Battlefield Vince Zampella has given his opinion on the creation of the Call of Duty franchise, stating the series only exists “because EA were dicks”. In an interview with GQ, Zampella spoke about Battlefield 6‘s potential to save the modern military shooter, but also his own history in game development. After all, before he touched Battlefield, Zampella was …
Read More »The Apple Watch Ultra 3 you deserve exists: Apple just didn’t build it
The Apple Watch Ultra 3 could have been so much more, if only Apple didn’t want to play it safe and secure enough opportunities for upgrades in the future… The company positions its Ultra line of smartwatches as the pinnacle of what a premium smartwatch can be. The new Apple Watch Ultra 3, which just launched alongside the iPhone 17 …
Read More »Over three decades later, Nintendo remembers the Virtual Boy exists
It’s been a long wait Nintendo says 14 Virtual Boy titles will be made available to Switch Online Expansion Pack subscribers over time. The eventual software list includes cult-classic Nintendo first-party titles like Virtual Boy Wario Land and Mario’s Tennis, as well as extremely hard-to-find third-party games like Jack Bros. and Virtual Bowling, which can command hundreds or thousands of …
Read More »BioShock creator Ken Levine’s Judas game still exists, now has key art
Remember Judas? No, not the biblical figure and not the Lady Gaga bop, this Judas is a project from Ghost Story Games. If you don’t remember, it’s the game that was reportedly in “” before it was even . The team, led by BioShock creator Ken Levine, had gone pretty quiet for a few years after releasing the debut trailer, …
Read More »Kev Levine reminds the world Judas exists with update on a slick gameplay feature
Bioshock creator Ken Levine has stepped out from the shadows to remind the world about his next project Judas, the first-person action adventure game from Ghost Story Games, through a new dev blog. This post revealed a new feature called Villainy – a player-choice driven system that modifies who’ll become an antagonist throughout the game. Basically, you start off with …
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