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Jose Andres and Eric Ribert have called for people to raise a glass to Anthony Bourdain on June 25 and called it #BourdainDay.One of the most popular first-person-shooter franchises of all time returns to the setting that made it a monster hit in the first official trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
To be clear, this is not merely an adaptation of 2007’s groundbreaking Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for current-gen consoles (Raven Software already did that with 2016’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered).
Instead, the newest CoD installment promises to be “an epic reimagining of the iconic Modern Warfare series from the ground up” that “shines a light on the changing nature of modern war.”
The reveal definitely has plenty of gun-slinging action. But more pointed scenes, including one of a civilian being hoisted on a stretcher and another of a child wearing a gas mask, indicate that Modern Warfare might venture into the darkest corners of military combat.
“We get dirty, and the world stays clean,” a narrator says at the end of the trailer. “That’s the mission.”
Gameplay will consist of a single player campaign, online multiplayer and co-op missions. To what will surely be the dismay of some CoD fans, there will NOT be a “Zombies” mode.
“We’re trying to create an authentic, realistic feeling world. We don’t have the flexibility to do something like put zombies in the game,” Campaign Gameplay Director Jacob Minkoff told PlayStation Lifestyle.
“That would compromise the feeling of playing in a world that feels realistic and authentic and relative to today’s conflicts and things we face.”
Gritty realism it is. We’ll see how it pans out when Call of Duty: Modern Warfare drops on October 25.
On the App Store, Apple is legislator, judge, jury, and executioner. Apple makes the rules. It has the final say about which apps you can officially purchase, download, and use on your iPhone or iPad. And importantly, Apple can change its mind at any time and make an app disappear — even to promote Apple’s own apps at the expense of a competitor and even if that competitor is a small business that relies on the App Store for its very existence.
As the world takes a closer look at the power Silicon Valley wields, that status quo is facing new scrutiny. Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) actually believes Apple should be broken up: “Either they run the platform or they play in the store,” she told The Verge in March. The…
In this guessing game nominally inspired by Tennessee, contestants guess whether a quantity is more than/greater than/higher than ten or fewer than/less than/lower than ten.
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Songwriter Carlene Carter explains how it felt to grow up in music and to carry on the family legacy. Then she plays a game guessing which artist or band is featured in a real pinball machine.
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In this here Grand Ole Finale, every answer ends with the letters O-L-E.
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Beep Boop Beep. Robots can’t love us, but we can write love songs about them. In this music parody game, contestants identify the real and fictional robots as Jonathan Coulton serenades.
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There are so many streaming options available these days, and so many conflicting recommendations, that it’s hard to see through all the crap you could be watching. Each Friday, The Verge’s Cut the Crap column simplifies the choice by sorting through the overwhelming multitude of movies and TV shows on subscription services and recommending a single perfect thing to watch this weekend.
Swamp Thing, Wes Craven’s 1982 movie about DC’s Swamp Thing, a comic book character created in 1971 by writer Len Wein and artist Bernie Wrightson. The film stars Ray Wise as Alec Holland, a scientist whose covert, government-funded work on the untapped potential of plant life — as both a food source and a bioweapon — draws the attention of a…
My favorite phone of all time is the BlackBerry Bold 9000. Unlike the iPhone 3G, which touted a revolutionary design when it was announced just a month later in 2008, the BlackBerry Bold wasn’t super flashy. But it had one thing the iPhone 3G didn’t: BlackBerry Messenger. It became a defining characteristic on BlackBerry devices and forever changed how business and casual conversations were held by phone users. Today, after years of dwindling usage and financial woes from BlackBerry developer RIM, BlackBerry Messenger is going away for good.
BlackBerry Messenger (better known as BBM) was one of the first instant messaging (IM) platforms that arrived on mobile devices in 2005. People could choose to use a BBM account tied to their unique…