Nintendo and Microsoft are using Minecraft cross-play as a marketing weapon, while Sony continues to block cross-play.

Minecraft is a fun party you can attend together if you have a Switch or an Xbox One ... but Sony won't let you in with a PlayStation 4. Nintendo's new commercial ...

Google is delivering on the continued conversation feature it announced at Google I/O this year. Now, you can speak to Google Assistant without saying "Hey ...

The Google Assistant is getting a major update today, with the arrival of the Continued Conversation feature previewed at the company's I/O conference.

Among the ways that Google is trying to make interactions with the Assistant more natural is enabling follow-up questions and interactions without injecting “Hey ...

At Google I/O in May, Google introduced a new feature for Google Assistant called Continued Conversation. As the name suggests, this would allow you to carry ...

Rumors of a new Blazer being in the works have been confirmed with the debut of the 2019 Chevy Blazer today in Atlanta. However, unlike the old ...

ATLANTA, Ga. — After months of rumors, speculation and waiting, we finally have our first look at the new 2019 Chevy Blazer. The Blazer's sharp lines are a ...

An all-new Chevrolet Blazer that will go on sale next year was unveiled at an event in Atlanta on Thursday. General Motors (GM), Chevrolet's parent company, ...

At first, I didn't know where the Yalta fit in. With a 30L capacity, the Yalta 2.0 (Chrome Industries, $96) is not a small bag but it's not massive either. It's a little ...

The prophecy foretold is now fulfilled: The Steam Summer Sale is live! That means cards to collect, a badge to earn, a game to play, and yes, some deals on ...

Do you love video games and hate having money? Are you ambivalent on the idea of ever getting around to actually playing those video games? Well, GOOD ...

Valve's annual Steam Summer Sale just went live and as anticipated, you'll find discounts on a slew of games through Valve's digital distribution platform.

In addition to game discounts, the Steam Summer Sale also features sales on recent anime seasons, including Black Clover, Food Wars, and more.

YouTube announced several new features out of VidCon today that will shake up the way mid-sized creators monetize. In particular, it announced a Premieres ...

YouTube will offer expanded merchandising opportunities and allow users to begin charging monthly channel memberships.

Introducing a couple of new alternative payment methods for creators, dubbing it 'alternative monetization'

YouTube is having a busy day at VidCon 2018. Aside from launching Premieres, a new feature that lets creators hype pre-recorded videos with a public landing ...

Amazon's Fire TV Cube begins shipping Thursday, June 21 to customers who pre-ordered the hybrid Amazon Echo and Fire TV device. The small box sits next ...

The Good The Amazon Fire TV Cube lets you control power, input switching and volume on your TV, sound bar or AV receiver hands-free from across the room, ...

Facebook Messenger can now translate messages from Spanish to English (and vice versa) for you, whatever it is you and your friend are talking about.

Facebook is expanding its M Translations tool. Facebook. Facebook is expanding M Translations, its tool for automatically translating languages on the social ...

Facebook's been criticized for tearing America apart, but now it will try to help us forge bonds with our neighbors to the south. Facebook Messenger will now offer ...

Facebook today announced it is expanding chat translation within Messenger to all users in the United States and Mexico. When you receive a...

Instagram was born as a simple photo-sharing app in 2010, but it began moving into video in 2013, when it started letting users upload short clips. Now, five ye...

Instagram announced its new long-form video app on Wednesday, which is a new way for influencers, celebrities, and anyone with an Instagram account to ...

Just when you thought Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) was running out of places to put ads, the company seems to be more creative than ever about coming up with ...

Microsoft says it has no Xbox-specific plans for virtual or mixed reality, reversing an earlier commitment to putting VR on its gaming console.

Fans of virtual or mixed reality who have been clinging to the hope of a headset for Xbox One will need to keep holding out -- Microsoft has confirmed it isn't...

With high-end virtual reality headsets coming to PC and PlayStation 4 over the past couple years, the common presumption was that Xbox was just waiting for ...

If you were still waiting patiently for the virtual reality features that Microsoft promised in 2016, then I have some bad news for you. During E3 last week, ...

The Flip Grip is a Kickstarter Nintendo Switch accessory that lets you play arcade classics like Donkey Kong and Pac-Man vertically.

With more and more Nintendo Switch games supporting vertical display functionality, it's high time someone came out with a Switch accessory built specifically ...

Flip Grip, designed to allow the Nintendo Switch to be played in vertical mode, has begun a Kickstarter.

A number of PC developers have taken out alleged spyware Red Shell, a software designed to track player habits, of their games.

It seems as though some PC game developers are using a tracking program called Red Shell in their games. This is causing a stir in the gaming community and ...

A smattering of PC games are tracking where you go and what you do on the internet when you aren't playing. Reddit sleuths have discovered that games ...

When Apple debuted the iPhone X last fall, the company also announced AirPower, a wireless charging pad with special Apple magic that would let you charge ...

When Apple Inc. introduced AirPods earbuds in 2016, chief designer Jony Ive hailed the beginning of a new "wireless future." The company's devices would ...

The iPhones of the future may be wireless, portless and buttonless.

Apple aims to release its multi-device AirPower charging mat "before or in September," after facing a handful of technical challenges with its hardware and ...

Apple Inc. filed petitions challenging four Qualcomm Inc. patents Thursday, dragging the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office into a long-running licensing dispute ...

Apple today filed petitions with the United States Patent and Trademark Office challenging the validity of four Qualcomm patents amid an increasingly...

In the latest move in the legal spat between the companies, Apple has turned to the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Apple waded into familiar ground as its legal struggle with Qualcomm advances, and on Thursday filed petitions with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to ...

Facebook is testing subscriptions for groups. In the future, groups may charge for premium *content*.

Facebook itself might never charge a fee to its users, but admins of private Facebook Groups could soon be able to charge a subscription fee for exclusive ...

Facebook is introducing a paid subscription feature for Group admins to charge for exclusive *content*. The feature is being tested across select Groups.

The social media giant has announced that it is piloting a subscription-based program that will allow group admins to charge users $4.99 to $29.99 per month for ...

Thanks to contactless payments and mobile wallets, smartphones are already making a bid to replace physical credit cards -- and, one day, your driver's license.

The Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), an organization that includes Apple, today announced the publication of a new Digital Key Release 1.0 specification, ...

A new digital key standard will allow you to use a smartphone (and possibly Apple Watch) to unlock your car. The standard is backed by Apple, Samsung, LG ...

An international partnership of companies has worked together as the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC) to create a digital key to replace the old-fashioned ...

Microsoft's new news engine aims to take on Google News and Apple news.

Microsoft is beating Google to a new search feature across its platform. The company today introduced Bing's Visual Search feature on Bing, Microsoft Launcher, ...

Microsoft's Bing launched a mobile version of its Visual Search tool that pulls up relevant pictures, product listings, and text snippets through photos your phone ...

One of the phones I was really excited to spend time with last year was the BlackBerry Keyone, and it proved to be a device I really enjoyed overall. However ...

Did the BlackBerry KEY2 catch your eye when it debuted earlier this month? If so, we now know when you'll be able to get one of your own. The BlackBerry ...

The days of phones with hardware keyboards might be mostly behind us, but there is a steadfast bunch that sticks to their desire for increased tactile feed... by ...

Amazingly, our original Galaxy S9 review was published over three months ago. There was a good amount of hype ahead of this launch, despite all the leaks, ...

Samsung's plans for the future with the Galaxy S10 are coming on quick - even before the Galaxy Note 9 is fully revealed. What we're looking at today is a set.

Is the latest leaked image doing the rounds today the Galaxy S10? When Samsung's flagship smartphone is launched early in 2019 I very much doubt that the ...

Samsung has patented a smartphone design that comes with extremely really slim bezels, a secondary display, and no chin.

Amazon already has quite a few Motorola phones in its Prime Exclusive roster, and now it's adding two more to its lineup. The e-commerce giant now offers the ...

Amazon is adding two more phones to its Prime Exclusive collection, with the announcement of the Moto G6 Play and Moto Z3 Play. Both devices will come with ...

The Moto Z3 Play and Moto G6 Play are now available for preorder as Prime Exclusive phones.

Moto G6 and Moto Z3 Play are coming to Amazon Prime on June 29 with a $50 discount, which makes these already-affordable Android phones an even better ...

Here is where you'll find seven hungry gnomes to complete Fortnite's season 4, week 8 challenge. Yes, they've moved.

The weekly challenges for Epic Games' Fortnite Battle Royale have gone live for Week 8 of Season 4 and a host of new XP is up for grabs. While Fortnite...

A new week of challenges has emerged, Fortnite players, and it's time to get started! One of this week's task given to those with a taste for Victory Royale ...

Fortnite once again tasks players with searching between three points on a map in Season 4, Week 8's challenges. This time around you'll be thrust into a ...

Apple just released GarageBand 10.3, a major new Mac update that's not only free to download but also makes Artist Lessons-- formerly $4.99 each--free ...

Apple today updated its GarageBand music creation software for Mac to version 10.3, introducing new loops, sound effects, drummers, and more, all for free.

Apple today released an update to GarageBand for Mac with version 10.3 introducing free downloadable Artist Lessons alongside new Drummers and sounds.

Over a year after its last update, Apple's music-making app GarageBand has been bumped to version 10.3, and there are some treats inside for Mac users.

How do Android users know whether an app is genuine? Currently, the best advice is to study the app's source, but given they can be loaded from three – the ...

Microsoft's Groove Music is dying on Android, but that doesn't mean you can't stream your music from OneDrive to your devices.

The popular game Fortnite is attracting malware offering up bogus Android versions.

Epic Games is on the verge of releasing Fortnite for Android - so the crooks are jumping in to offer you "early access"... to malware!

By Joseph Knoop The official Overwatch. Twitter account posted a six-second video clip Thursday, potentially teasing either its 28th hero or a new map.

Leave it to Blizzard to rile up Overwatch fans with a simple video clip of a wall. We've long heard murmurs about Hammond, a test subject from Horizon Lunar ...

Blizzard has become the master of the tease, whether it be for new *content* in World of Warcraft or, in this case, its shooter Overwatch. The developer's latest ...

The camera's frame doesn't move. There's no Overwatch heroes, no moving characters—just steam from a vent, a soccer ball, and some posters. Blizzard ...

The Legendary Ice-type Regice from Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire is now available in Raid Battles, and it'll be followed this summer by Regirock and Registeel.

The newest Hoenn Legendary will be in the game until July 19.

A push notification in “Pokémon Go” confirms that Regice, one of the three Legendary Regis from the Hoenn Region, is coming to the mobile game.

Dataminers have discovered evidence that Pokemon Go's next set of Legendary Pokemon will be the three Legendary Golem first seen in Pokemon Ruby and ...

The Sims 4's latest expansion, Seasons, gives the game the rhythms of a passing year. While it might seem like a decorative change, after playing it, Seasons ...

Seasons-themed expansion packs of The Sims games are always some of the most frequently requested and favorite of fans. It's true now and it was true 10 ...

One of the best Sims 4 expansions packs so far, Seasons changes everything for your sim families with friendly bees, sinister gnomes and a chance to chat up ...

One of the things the press noted about the E3 Cyberpunk 2077 private demo was how good it looked. So good in fact, that it's hard to believe this game will be a ...

CD Projekt Red teases that there will be NO LOADING SCREENS in Cyberpunk 2077.

During my interview with game director Adam Badowski, the man leading the Cyberpunk 2077 team seemed apprehensive about the game's reception.

You're hungry for more Cyberpunk 2077 after it was exposed to the public for the first time in five years at E3 2018. You're at the point that you could be ...