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Crucible sets Amazon Game Studios off to a promising start Crucible is a fitting title for Amazon Game Studios’ first big release. Amazon has released games before, but since the studio’s 2012 founding a mediocre racing game based on Amazon’s own The Grand Tour is the only title that’s appeared outside of Amazon’s App Store. Amazon made a big deal out of Amazon Game Studios when it first launched, with names like Kim Swift (Portal) and Clint Hocking (Splinter Cell, Far Cry 2) on board, but both of them left without releasing a game....

Disney’s head of streaming leaves to become CEO of TikTok Kevin Mayer, Disney’s most senior executive in charge of streaming, is leaving the company to become CEO of TikTok, the short video sharing app. Mayer resigned on Monday. The New York Timesreports that Mayer will act as chief operating officer of TikTok’s parent company ByteDance. TikTok is that rare Chinese owned digital company that has moved beyond its home country to have major success in the West....

EasyJet hacked: 9m customers’ details stolen EasyJet, like many other airlines, is a struggling business with the COVID-19 pandemic preventing anyone from flying. But now the company has suffered a huge cyberattack in which the email addresses and flight details of 9 million customers were put at risk. Worse, over 2,200 people’s credit card details were stolen. EasyJet revealed the embarrassing breach on Tuesday 19 May and has contacted all customers whose card details were exposed....

Epic Store introduces partial refunds for games bought before a sale As theEpic GamesStore continues to eat into Steam’s market share it’s quietly launched a new feature that’s impressively consumer-friendly: partial refunds for games bought just before a sale starts. The new feature hasn’t been announced or confirmed by Epic itself, but was spotted by Studio Mayday founder Joshua Boggs in an email he received after purchasing a game. Whoa whoa what?...

HTC U Ear are the company’s late to the party wireless earbuds If a new filing with the Taiwanese National Communication Commission is anything to go by, then these are the upcoming HTC U Ear wireless earbuds (viaAndroid Police). The beleaguered former king of Android barely releases any hardware these days, but it looks like it’s going to churn out an AirPods clone nearly four years after Apple announced its market-shaping headphones....