Guild Wars 2 advert pokes fun at WoW’s dragonriding–‘Why wait to ride a dragon?’ Nobody tell them you’ll probably be waiting longer in GW2 than WoW. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. ArenaNet is trying something to entice people into its MMO: dragons. Specifically, jokingly telling you that Guild War 2’s dragons are superior to World of Warcraft’s with a cheeky new advert....

How one writer became the core of early Apple II culture Softalk magazine helped the idea of everyday computer entertainment—and games—to flourish. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. In 1979, 39-year-old Margot Comstock, a freelance writer and editor, won $15,000 (around $62,000 today) on a game show called Password Plus. It was a key day for computer history, though no one, including Margot, knew that at the time....

How to find a Dial-A-Drop in Fortnite Call in supplies with this new consumable. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Where to find Mending MachinesHow to slide kick a runaway boulderHow to find and open VaultsHow to unlock the Bytes outfit and tune the TV Fortnite has just added the Dial-A-Drop to the battle royale and it’s worth hunting down for the extra items it can give you during a game....

How to unlock fast travel in Sonic Frontiers Speed your way across the map. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Sonic Frontiers' fast travel isn’t the easiest feature in the game to unlock, but once you do, you can warp across the Starfall Islands and save Sonic’s little legs having to run everywhere. It’s a slightly different system than what you’d usually expect in an open-world game, and requires more than your typical Assassin’s Creed-esque scaling of monuments....

Meta to lay off over 11,000 employees including in VR Reality Labs division “We’re making reductions in every organization across both Family of Apps and Reality Labs,” Zuckerberg tells staff. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. In a message to employees today, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, told staff that the company will be letting go of 13% of its workforce....

Microsoft may double down with ads in the Windows 11 Start menu As if we weren’t already up to our eyeballs in ads. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Microsoft has been trialling a bunch more advertisements and popups through its Windows 11 insider builds, and although these could change, Microsoft may decide to keep these somewhat intrusive features in the final versions of upcoming Windows 11 updates....

Modern Warfare 2’s new anti-toxicity tools are ‘foundational’ for CoD’s future “Combating toxicity is an ongoing commitment”. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. ActivisionBlizzard has detailedthe new anti-toxicity featuresintroduced with Modern Warfare II, which it says will be “foundational for all future Call of Duty titles going forward”. Essentially this is an overhauled in-game reporting system, combined with new tools for the publisher’s moderation teams to deal with problem players....