Two Charged over ‘Swatting’ Hoax That Led to Teen Being Shot by Police
Robert McDaid and Zachary Lee have been charged in regard to a 2015 “swatting” hoax that led to the shooting of Tyran Dobbs by police.

Robert McDaid and Zachary Lee have been charged in regard to a 2015 “swatting” hoax that led to the shooting of Tyran Dobbs by police.

A Korean undergraduate student is scrambling to reverse the effects of malware he created as a joke.

Mass Effect: Andromeda is a crushing disappointment from top to bottom and an inadvertent argument for letting the Mass Effect franchise rest in peace.

Goldman-Sachs made its case for mining platinum in space in a 98-page note to its clients.

Montgomery Markland wants to adapt one of the most storied American movies of all time, Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, into a video game that the team describes as “like Fallout: New Vegas on acid in Vietnam.”

The Co-founder and former CEO of Twitter is selling 30 percent of his shares in the company, claiming to be dumping the shares for “personal reasons.”

Homeowners from Florida, Michigan, and New Jersey have joined a lawsuit against Niantic, the developer of Pokemon Go, for the invasive antics of its most enthusiastic customers.

The University of Utah will become the first major sports university to officially sponsor competitive gaming.

Amazon is finally ready to take some measure of responsibility for charging customers’ credit cards for their children’s purchases without their consent.

“Barcades” like Button Mash in Los Angeles, California, are returning 80’s and 90’s kids to the bleep-blooping domains from whence they came — with the addition of trendy craft beers to sweeten the deal.

Twitter has lost its sixteenth leader in the last twelve months in its ongoing slide from chaotic cultural relevance into clean and curated silence.

A new study found that 52% of roadside accidents involved drivers distracted by their phones.

The Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders is using robots to both study and treat children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

PETA isn’t happy with the unrealistic depiction of milking in the Nintendo Switch minigame collection 1-2 Switch.

Multiple experts are calling into question the validity of the World Health Organization’s proposed revisions classifying gaming behaviors as a mental disorder.

According to a new report by the consulting firm Accenture, human bank tellers are on their way out.

In response to a lack of communication from both the publisher and developer about For Honor’s most pressing issues, members of the game’s community are planning a boycott of the game on April 3, 2017.

At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, Bill Kochevar was able to eat independently for the first time in 8 years.

Clouds Architecture Office has designed a skyscraper that would stretch toward Earth from the sky, suspended from an orbiting asteroid.

Italian company Jet Capsule has released details on their new two-seater flying saucer drone.

GameStop is reportedly closing at least 150 stores, or about 3 percent of its locations, in response to a growing consumer preference for digital storefronts.

The Australian Classification Board has rescinded the effective ban on Outlast 2.

Scientists may have discovered a proverbial Fountain of Youth that NASA is very interested in.

The developers of the flawed but original medieval brawler For Honor are getting a lot of heat from the game’s player base over its progression system and microtransactions.

It’s come to this: Twitter is now employing IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence to help fight the ongoing war against its own users.

At the MARS 2017 tech conference, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos hopped into Hankook Mirae Technology’s massive mechanized suit.

Contrary to consumer reports, Nintendo claims that Nintendo Switch issues are not widespread and fall in line with past hardware launches.

Ghost Recon Wildlands is a strange game that feels more like the errant love-child of Just Cause 3 and The Division than any previous title in the Ghost Recon franchise, but unfortunately it doesn’t pull off the best parts of either title.

First-person survival horror game Outlast 2 has been denied classification by the Australian Classification Board, effectively banning it from sale in Australia.

Windows 7 and 8.1 users with newer computer processors will no longer receive updates to their operating systems due to Microsoft’s support policy changes.

“D&D Beyond” is a new push from publisher Wizards of the Coast to make Dungeons & Dragons a more accessible experience through technology.

Google Director of Engineering and prominent futurist Ray Kurzweil believes that human-computer hybrids will be stronger, wittier, and more attractive.

Bay Area food tech startup Memphis Meats offered samples of their “clean meat” to adventurous taste-testers in San Francisco this Tuesday.

Google subsidiary DeepMind Technologies Limited, in partnership with researchers from Imperial College London, have developed a functional long-term memory for the DeepMind AI. The London-based company has taken a major step beyond the already impressive milestones they have achieved in machine

The launch of the Nintendo Switch is looking strong, buoyed by consumer enthusiasm for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

The latest chapter in the Legend of Zelda series is a masterclass in elegant design, filled with interlocking gameplay systems wrapped in a gorgeous aesthetic and played over one of the most endearing worlds Nintendo has ever created.

We Are Chicago by Culture Shock Games seeks to depict the truth of a city drowning in its own blood in an effort to stanch the flow.

Creepers of the web, rejoice! Now you can find someone’s social media account just by taking their picture.

Facebook is denying the use of its collected user data to law enforcement and also start-up companies that would sell that data to law enforcement customers.

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos wants to apply the same principles used in Amazon’s developing delivery services to bring supplies to the future population of the moon.
