COMPUTING & GAMES from The Verge - Gaming Posts for 12/28/2018

Excerpts: One of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch's games is available to play right now Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is Netflix's new choose-your-own-adventure interactive special and, in traditional Black Mirror fashion, is full of fun Easter eggs — including giving people the chance to play one of the games featured in the film. Bandersnatch introduces viewers to a fictional game development studio, run by an ambitious leader who wants to turn the company, Tuckersoft, into the "Motown of games." The goal is to produce a series of hit titles that will reward its developers with fame and fortune. One of those games, Nohzdyve, is available to play right now — but there's a twist. Nohzdyve was developed for the ZX Spectrum, a personal computer that was released in Britain in the early 1980s. It's the same time period in which... Continue reading… Read on » The Verge 2018 tech report card: Nintendo How do you top a year like 2017? For Nintendo, that hasn't been an easy question. Last year the game maker shocked the world with the runaway success of the Switch, which was aided by the release of both The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild at launch and Super Mario Odyssey during the holiday rush. After the very public failure of the Wii U, 2017 was the kind of year Nintendo desperately needed. 2018, in contrast, has been about trying to keep that momentum going. For the Switch, that has meant three things: releasing more of the games fans are asking for, pushing for new kinds of experiences, and continuing to lure third-party developers to the platform. On the first front, 2018 has been a success. Particularly this holiday season,... Continue reading… Read on » The Verge 2018 tech report card: Microsoft Microsoft's 2017 was a year of focus, on improving from the failures it left behind in 2016. Over the last 12 months, Microsoft's 2018 has been a year of growth. Microsoft is now a top five PC maker in the US with Surface, revenue and cloud growth is up, and the software giant even briefly overtook Apple to become the world's most valuable company. It's also been a year of proof that the difficult changes CEO Satya Nadella has made are starting to pay off. Microsoft started the year off in a difficult position like many of its PC partners. Meltdown and Spectre security flaws revealed fundamental issues with processor designs over the past 20 years, and Intel, AMD, Microsoft, and many others had to scramble to issue software updates to... Continue reading… Read on »

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