Cold War

Pundits like George Will think China will be deterred by an aircraft carrier. They misunderstand what Beijing wants. Perhaps alone among conservatives these days, I don’t hate George Will. That may be because I remember back during the Bush administration when he was among the first on the mainstream right…

Image via Treyarch Mule Kick has been a staple in Call of Duty Zombies history for a long time, making its debut on Moon in Call of Duty: Black Ops. Since then, it has always been a simple perk that allowed you to hold a third weapon when you bought…

Gen. Ripper has exceeded his authority Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War aficionados have a new reason to fear online’s finest, (or at least biggest cheating), players. The famously devastating “Nuke” scorestreak has returned, now available to launch in all of Black Ops Cold War‘s multiplayer modes. This Black…

Weaver’s keeping an eye out for you Activision has revealed the full contents for this week’s Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War & Warzone Season 4 Reloaded update, bringing a ton of new and returning content to the multiplayer shooter and its battle royale brethren. Among the goodies on…

For battle royales, it's a case of innovate or die. With several big-name competitors in the free-to-play genre, studios have to keep updating their games or risk losing players. Activision's latest offering for the Call of Duty: Warzone crowd is an objective-based mode called Payload. In a first for the…

It’s rare that U.S. foreign policy makes much of a dent in domestic politics—did anyone, outside of the families of military members and refugees, notice the end of the Afghan war?—but recent political unrest in Cuba has quickly been taken up by Republican politicians with fervor. Florida Senator Marco Rubio,…

A Chinese day trader plays cards with others at a local brokerage house in Beijing on August 27, 2015, the summer of a dramatic sell-off in Chinese stocks. Getty Images On Saturday, China's cyberspace regulator proposed that any company with data on more than 1 million users must go through…

On 19 June 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were sent to the electric chair for being Soviet spies. Sixty-eight years later, their sons are still trying to clear their mother’s name. Hadley Freeman reports “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs…” So begins Sylvia Plath’s…

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and the battle royale game Warzone are celebrating 4th of July with a new DLC pack that comes with a series of patriotic items. Available now from the in-game shop for Black Ops Cold War and Warzone is the "Fireworks" bundle headlined by…

Don’t Be Toxic Online multiplayer video games have brought people from all over the world together, yet since its inception and drastic, exponential growth in popularity, in-game voice and text chats have been plagued by toxicity. The toxicity includes racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic and other slurs that cannot be tolerated…