Remakes have become projects to be frowned upon in the film industry, seen as lacking originality and creativity. But in Nightdive Studios case, in the videogames sector, the teams mission to preserve retro titles and render them playable on current-gen consoles by modern players is admirable.

Established in 2014, Night School released its debut game Oxenfree in 2016, which was nominated for multiple awards, including Outstanding Achievement in Story at the 20th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards. Initially starting their small team out of co-founder Sean Krankel's kitchen, the studio found its feet in the industry as well as being approached by Telltale to develop a companion game for their Stranger Things title.

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge Almost 12 years ago, Microsoft showed us the Surface for the first time. Back then, the company’s big bet was that the laptop market was ready for a shake-up, that it could radically change both the hardware and software of a Windows PC and make everything better. Windows 8 didn’t go so well, and neither did the early attempts at building Windows on top of Arm processors. The Surface, though, has turned into a pretty great device. Now, Microsoft is making a very different wager, this time on AI being the future of computing in practically every way you can think of. And once again, it’s making that bet with the Surface. On this episode of The Vergecast, Microsoft’s Windows and devices head Pavan Davuluri joins the show to discuss the... Continue reading…

Image: Activision Microsoft is confirming today that Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, the next installment in the popular franchise, will be available day one on Xbox Game Pass. After a premature notification earlier today, an official Xbox Wire blog post has now revealed that Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be available on Microsoft’s game subscription service later this year. “We’re excited to confirm that Game Pass members will be able to jump into Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 on day one with Game Pass,” says Megan Spurr, senior community lead of Xbox Game Pass. The confirmation of a Game Pass release for the next Call of Duty installment comes after questions about Call of Duty’s availability on Xbox Game Pass. I reported earlier this month that Microsoft had... Continue reading…

Fear is taking hold of some of those at the highest levels of the Democratic Party over President Joe Biden's reelection prospects, Politico is reporting.

The Biden administration recently announced a new policy that allows classified information to be used in immigration proceedings, NBC News reported.

Ohio's Republican secretary of state said he's enforcing the law, not playing politics, on whether President Joe Biden will be on the state's ballot in the November general election.

If he wins the race for the White House, former President Donald Trump said he will consider pardoning WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Melinda French Gates said she will donate $1 billion over the next two years to individuals and organizations working on behalf of women and families globally, including on reproductive rights in the United States.

Following two years of tough negotiations, efforts to craft a global treaty to help countries fight future pandemics have failed, the World Health Organization has acknowledged. "WHO Member States have ended intensive negotiations aimed at strengthening global capacities to...