Why are autoplaying Facebook videos suddenly screaming at you? Weren’t they supposed to be silent — and thus easy to consume in public places without subjecting you to embarassment? No more: Facebook has just decided to start autoplaying audio whenever you scroll past an autoplaying video in your News Feed, with an update rolling out …

Perhaps you’ve tried Fire Emblem Heroes, Nintendo’s new mobile strategy game. Perhaps you’ve crashed and burned. Perhaps you’d like a few tips so you can impress your friends and generally avoid sucking? I’m a Fire Emblem fan who’s pretty much beaten the entire game so far — as well as the last seven or so Fire Emblem games before that. …

Super Mario ran. Pokemon went. And then there was Fire Emblem. It’s on Android and iOS right now. What is Fire Emblem, and since when is it a thing? Remember when we got all weepy for ’80s nostalgia and it finally convinced Nintendo to join the modern era by bringing Pokemon Go and Super Mario Run to phones? Fire Emblem …

Steam, the world’s biggest PC game store, is about to get a lot bigger. That’s because its owner, game developer Valve, is done picking and choosing which games will appear there. (Yes, the same Valve behind Half-Life, Portal and DOTA 2, among other popular games.) Valve has been experimenting for the past five years with a feature called Steam Greenlight, …

Valve, the famous video game developer behind Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead and DOTA 2, doesn’t make a lot of games these days. When it does, they’re typically uber-popular, critically-acclaimed hits like the names above. So imagine our surprise to learn that Valve is working on not one, not two, but three new games right now — and …

Now playing: Watch this: Trouble for VR? Facebook ending slew of Oculus demos… 1:33 Enlarge Image Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dons an Oculus Rift VR headset. Facebook Ask any expert: You’ve gotta try virtual reality before you can understand its true potential. So it wouldn’t be a particularly good sign if, say, Facebook was having a hard time getting people …

I wouldn’t blame you for forgetting all about the Nvidia Shield Tablet, especially after Nvidia had to recall practically every single slate when they became a fire hazard two years ago. But the tablet’s successor, the Nvidia Shield Tablet K1, could be a fantastic deal at $200/£170/roughly AU$260. Particularly because the inexpensive slate can now be updated to Android 7.0 …

This, my friends, this glorious TV and movie trope, may be coming true. The ability to “zoom and enhance” an image, one that’s far too low-res for humans to understand, is now way, way closer thanks to a team of AI researchers at Google. Behold: Enlarge Image Google At left, the crummy low-res image the computer had to work with. …

In January, ZTE CEO Lixin Cheng told CNET that his company would release its first Android Wear smartwatch in 2017 — one with an LTE cellular connection and longer battery life than typical, so you can use it independent of a phone. Now, we may be getting our first glimpse of the device, which will reportedly be named the ZTE …

If you wanted to experience Google’s Daydream before now, you had to drop some serious cash: over $600 for a Google Pixel or Moto Z handset, and another $79 for the VR headset itself. The ZTE Axon 7 should make a Daydream investment a bit easier to swallow. ZTE said Tuesday the $400 mid-range phone will now be Daydream-ready as …