If all you soft-hands city folk want to see how real workin’ people play a video game, Farming Simulator 19 is the latest free game available through the Epic Games Store. In Farming Simulator 19, players may develop and expand their back 40 in a variety of American and European settings. Farming Simulator 19 likewise has dozens of official licensing partners, mainly on the combines, tractors, pickers, and other vehicles that maintain your spread. Farming Simulator 19 is available from now until

Valve’s Steam platform appears to be having a partial outage. Users are currently having difficulty reaching the Store and Community pages. The outage arrives just days after the end of Steam’s Lunar New Year Sale, which concluded on Jan. 27. One high-profile launch is Days of War, a World War II-themed multiplayer shooter which is scheduled to go live at 1:00 p.m. EST. Meanwhile, the entire Community portal is still offline and the store itself is returning a 503 error.

Revenant is the latest character to join Apex Legends, and in the game’s season 4 launch trailer, Respawn Entertainment shows us the origins of the terrifying assassin. The trailer starts out with a calm and collected hitman preparing for his day before receiving a new contract. The guards that stand around the target are apparently no match for Revenant as he takes them out with ease. While we don’t know anything for sure, it certainly seems like these smoldering and smoky states could be previ

There’s one major difference: Overwatch’s Experimental game mode will be available on all platforms, not just the PC version where players are able take part in PTR matches. Changes introduced in Experimental are not guaranteed to transition to the standard live version of Overwatch’s quick play and competitive modes. Blizzard is also implementing a new system called Hero Pools to Overwatch’s competitive mode with the game’s upcoming season. Hero Pools will disable certain heroes in competitive

Here’s what you need to know before these indie films make their way to theaters, streaming services, and the cinematic zeitgeist. (In a particularly low moment, he snarls at Kyo, “I send flowers, and other people send pigs to eat them!”) There are elements of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Veronique in Nine Days, in the swoony way Will’s favorite charge on Earth lives for music, and in her ultimate fate. Nine Days’ unconventional setting and premise are a minor thrill all on their ow

After Slay the Spire taught me how to build a deck, I was ready to tackle Riot’s Legends of Runeterra card game head-on. Like any card game, Legends of Runeterra takes time to learn, and even longer to remember all the different cards. But Legends of Runeterra’s draft mode, Expeditions, makes for the perfect learning experience. In the Expeditions game mode, I pick out random different cards until I have a complete deck and two Champions (powerful cards you build synergies around). Because of Ex

If you wanted to catch up on the adventures of Jean-Luc Picard but don’t know if you want to shell out $5.99 a month for CBS All Access, fret not. For about a week — that is, until Wednesday, Feb. 5 — the first episode of Star Trek: Picard is free to watch on the CBS website. Star Trek: Picard premiered on CBS All Access on Jan. 23 and picks up 14 years after Capt. Unlike Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was typically episodic in nature, Picard is set to be more serialized. Also, Patrick St

Mike KempMarkets are underestimating the possibility that a trade agreement between the U.K. and the EU ends up resembling the much-feared “no-deal” scenario, some strategists say. The U.K. will officially leave the bloc at 11 p.m. London time on Friday, and both sides will then begin efforts to negotiate a new free trade agreement before the end of 2020. Little price movement is expected on the night, but the cloud of uncertainty is unlikely to lift for now. The Telegraph newspaper reported on

Nintendo has sold more than 52 million Switch consoles since the systems’s launch in March 2017. Nintendo announced the sales milestone in the company’s quarterly financial results (PDF), boasting of strong Switch sales boosted by the Nintendo Switch Lite (released in September) and the launch of the console in China. Nintendo’s Switch sales milestone also puts it ahead of lifetime Xbox One console sales, according to analysts. Also worth pointing out that according to our estimates the Nintendo

The Outer Worlds will launch on Nintendo Switch on March 6, Obsidian Entertainment announced today. Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of publisher Private Division, told investors in November that The Outer Worlds would launch on Switch early this year. Related The 50 best games of 2019Though comparatively brief for an Obsidian role-playing game, The Outer Worlds is still a critical success, earning multiple nominations at the Game Critics Awards (where it won Best Original Game) and The

Facebook’s growth remains healthy despite cost concerns: Wedbush SecuritiesDespite Facebook’s slowing growth performance, Daniel Ives from Wedbush Securities says that its monetization story will remain healthy as long as user growth continues to tick up.

Mondelez (MDLZ) came in a penny ahead of analyst forecasts with adjusted quarterly earnings of 61 cents per share, and the Oreo-cookie maker also saw revenue beat estimates. However, Mondelez also said it expects current quarter revenue to take a hit from the coronavirus issue. PayPal (PYPL) reported adjusted quarterly profit of 86 cents per share, 3 cents above estimates, while revenue was slightly above forecasts. Unilever (UL) is beginning a strategic review of its tea business, which include

The California Institute of Technology said on Wednesday that it won a $1.1 billion jury verdict in a patent case against Apple and Broadcom. Broadcom is a major Apple supplier, deriving about a fifth of its sales from the iPhone maker in its fiscal 2019. Last week Broadcom said it had signed deals to sell as much as $15 billion worth of chips to Apple. The verdict awarded CalTech $837.8 million from Apple and $270.2 million from Broadcom. “We are pleased the jury found that Apple and Broadcom i

A lawyer for Michael Avenatti told a jury that Nike was being probed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over claims that it made illicit payments to elite youth basketball players, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The SEC investigation on Nike was confirmed by Scott Wilson, a former lawyer who represented Nike, on the witness stand, Bloomberg said. Nike and the U.S. SEC did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Avenatti’s lawyer, Howard Srebnick, said the Justice Dep

Southwest flew planes with unconfirmed maintenance records, WSJ reportsThe Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that a forthcoming government report that has yet to be released says Southwest Airlines failed to prioritize safety and the Federal Aviation Administration has not don enough about it.

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAmazon’s ongoing effort to get orders to your doorstep more quickly is likely to drag down profit numbers when the company reports fourth-quarter results on Thursday. But revenue growth keeps chugging along. Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, wrote in a report that Amazon’s aggressive push into one-day delivery probably provided a “nice boost to (near) last-minute purchases ahead of Christmas.” “We expect another record revenue holiday quar

Citigroup is making a push for investors’ dollars with a new digital robo-adviser that’s free for customers with at least $50,000 in deposits or investments at the bank. That’s the threshold needed to qualify for the bank’s Citi Priority bundle of banking services, which will soon include access to an automated investing program, according to documents viewed by CNBC. Customers with Citi Priority or higher status can use the program, called Citi Wealth Builder, for one free portfolio; those who

Wall Street set to open in the redU.S. stock index futures were lower Thursday morning on continued worried about the spread of the coronavirus in China. CNBC’s Kate Rogers reports.

Eli Lilly posts EPS and revenue beatPharmaceutical company Eli Lilly reports quarterly earnings of $1.73 per share and revenues of $6.114 billion.

U.S. government debt prices were higher Thursday morning, as investors closely monitored the potential economic impact of China’s fast-spreading coronavirus. ET, the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to price, was lower at around 1.5582%, slipping below 1.56% for the first time since early October. Meanwhile, the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was also lower at around 2.0211%. Chinese health officials confirmed there had been 7,711 cases of the deadly pneumonia-like viru