In brief: Houseparty, the video conferencing and gaming app, is offering a $1 million reward to anyone providing proof it was the victim of a paid commercial smear campaign.

Houseparty, which was bought by Epic Games in 2019, has experienced a surge in popularity following the lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic. Its daily downloads have jumped from 24,795 per day on February 15 to 651,694 on March 25.

Yesterday, there were

WTF?! Dreams is a creative platform for the PlayStation 4 that allows users to create whatever they want, limited only by their imagination and the PS4's hardware, which is apparently stout enough to render a photorealistic forest in real-time. I don't think anybody anticipated Dreams to facilitate the creation of something this authentic looking.

When Little Big Planet developer Media Molecule launched Dreams on PlayStation 4 in Early Access last year, it seemed pretty limited. The sandbox-like application allows users to create anything

In brief: Foxconn's business was hit long before the coronavirus hit China, but the first quarter of 2020 will reveal the true extent of the damage. Meanwhile, things look optimistic for the iPhone 12 mass production, and the manufacturer is diversifying its business and building new regional hubs in Asia.

The US-China trade war and waning consumer demand has taken a toll on Foxconn's quarterly profit, which dropped 24 percent in the three months ending in December 2019.

In a nutshell: Toilet paper and hand sanitizer aren’t the only commodities in short supply as of late. Nintendo’s handheld Switch is also proving difficult to find in stock as more people are turning to gaming as a source of entertainment during shelter in place orders (and to play the new Animal Crossing).

A quick survey of some of the top retailers around including Target, Best Buy, Walmart, GameStop and Amazon shows zero local and online availability for new, non-bundle versions of the Nintendo Switch

In context: Apparently, cheat software can be used for more than just cheating against other players. Someone has used Cheat Engine to force Doom Eternal into a third-person mode. Although id Software did not program in third-person, the Doomguy's 3D model can be forced into view by this trick.

After being delayed , Doom Eternal finally hit shelves to rave reviews , and has been flying off said shelves like “hotcakes.” Although it has only been out for less than two weeks, somebody

In brief: Nintendo is reportedly planning to commemorate the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. this year by re-releasing much of the franchise’s back catalog on the Nintendo Switch. The news was supposed to be shared at E3 but with it being cancelled, Nintendo is said to be exploring alternatives.

Sources familiar with the matter tell Eurogamer that Super Mario Galaxy is being remastered for the Switch. There’s also a new Paper Mario game in the works alongside a deluxe version of Super Mario 3

Bottom line: It’ll be tough for many to justify a $999 Chromebook, especially in the current climate, and only Google has tested the waters at this price point thus far with its original Chromebook Pixel line. Still, it’s good to have options and undoubtedly, some will be willing to make the investment. With any luck, some of the system’s premium

What just happened? Rumors of a remastered campaign of 2009's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 had increasingly started to surface over the past few weeks, hinting at the game's imminent arrival. According to an official listing on the German PlayStation Store, that happens tomorrow, March 31, 2020.

It seems Activision wants to continue milking the Modern Warfare franchise, but then with CoD: MW2, the publisher indeed has one of the finest cows to milk. Players

The big picture: Governments worldwide are employing several strategies to track the spread of Covid-19, and the US too has started using anonymized location data from mobile ads to get a clear picture of the pandemic's evolution. The pretext of using surveillance to plan an appropriate response to the virus has also raised some questions about the persistence of these measures once the situation is under control.

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