Sharon Ross 
Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare’s fifth season is coming out on Aug. 5. The season’s release date was revealed by a tweet from the official Call of Duty Twitter account on Sunday. The new season for Modern Warfare and Warzone has been teased for a couple of weeks now, but this tweet is … Read more
Sony has just announced that its latest “State of Play” event is happening this Thursday, August 6th at 4PM ET — but don’t expect quite the volume of news we got at the last big PlayStation event. In early June, we saw a ton of PS5 games and the first look at the console itself, … Read more
Sony will broadcast a new episode of State of Play on Thursday, Aug. 6, promising new details on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR games, as well as some updates on PlayStation 5 games. The new State of Play will be more than 40 minutes long, Sony said, and will kick off at 4 p.m. ET/1 … Read more
This morning, Richard Branson’s space tourism venture Virgin Galactic unveiled the design of its proposed supersonic jet. The company claims the final version of the vehicle could carry between nine and 19 passengers and reach Mach 3, or three times faster than the speed of sound. Virgin Galactic’s primary focus is its space tourism business, … Read more
The next generation is just a few months away, with Sony and Microsoft both planning to launch their respective new consoles, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, this holiday season. Both companies have equipped their consoles with next-gen video features such as support for gaming in 4K resolution at 120 frames per second. That … Read more
Google has invested $450 million for a 6.6 percent stake in security company ADT, the companies announced today. The deal, which is expected to close in the third quarter of this year, will see ADT’s technicians selling and installing Google’s Nest smart home devices, such as cameras and smart displays, as early as this year. … Read more
At first glance, a Microsoft acquisition of TikTok seems a little unusual. Microsoft has spent years walking back consumer plays like the Groove Music service, the Kinect Xbox accessory, its Microsoft Band fitness device, Windows Phone, and more recently the Mixer streaming service. Microsoft has been favoring its enterprise software and services, and even Cortana … Read more
Many PlayStation 4 controllers and accessories, including racing wheels, headsets, and the PlayStation Move motion controllers, will work on PlayStation 5 and the games designed for the next-generation console, Sony confirmed Monday morning. But the PS4’s DualShock 4 controller will have an important limitation on PS5: Sony’s current-gen gamepad won’t be compatible with PS5 games. … Read more
Sony has clarified how both PS5 and PS4 accessories will work with its next video game console. First, let’s get the old DualShock 4 out of the way: it’ll work with PS4 games that are backwards compatible on the PS5, but it can’t be used for next-gen video games. The reason, Sony explained in a … Read more
Sony is confirming today that its existing PS4 controller will not work with PS5 games. “We believe that PS5 games should take advantage of the new capabilities and features we’re bringing to the platform, including the features of DualSense wireless controller,” says Sony in a statement confirming the company’s plans. Sony says that existing DualShock … Read more