Month: February 2022
Netflix’s ‘Continue Watching’ queue gets a huge quality of life improvement
You no longer have to be reminded of your latest true crime binge or alert houseguests to the fact that you watch Emily in Paris. Netflix just added the option for users to delete titles from their “Continue Watching” list, reported The Verge. While technically there’s been a way for…
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EA says Battlefield 2042 ‘did not meet expectations’
For the most part, EA’s most recent quarterly earnings statement was a positive one. The games publisher says that the fiscal quarter ending on December 31st, 2021 was “the largest quarter in the company’s history for net bookings, underlying profitability and cash generation,” according to CFO Blake Jorgensen. Games like…
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Another gaming company just gave up on NFTs
Yesterday, Team17, the developer and publisher of many beloved indie games, announced a “MetaWorms” project tied to its series of Worms games that stretches over 23 years and has sold over 75 million copies. Team17 said the generative NFTs would be “giving fans the chance to own a unique piece…
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Riot’s latest League of Legends spinoff hits Netflix Games as a mobile exclusive
Netflix has announced that it’s adding two new titles to its small but steadily growing lineup of mobile games — including Riot’s newest League of Legends spinoff. Starting today, users can play Dungeon Dwarves and Hextech Mayhem on Android and iOS devices for free with a Netflix subscription. Dungeon Dwarves,…
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Google parent company Alphabet broke $200 billion in annual revenue for the first time
Google parent company Alphabet hit a new record for annual revenue in 2021, showing no ill effects from the lingering coronavirus pandemic or ongoing issues with the global supply chain. For full-year 2021, the company saw a 41 percent year-over-year jump in revenue to $257 billion. The company reported revenue…
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Extreme alien world with metal atmosphere shows how weird the universe can be
Audio player loading… When you think of air, you don’t typically think of metal, but that’s probably because you aren’t on WASP-189b. To be clear, you’d also be very dead if you were. WASP-189b is an exoplanet orbiting a star about 322 light-years away from us and it’s what astronomers…
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