David Lumb

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Mobile Reporter at CNET

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Crisol is a BioShock-Like Cult Horror Shooter Using Your Blood For Bullets

1 week ago | cnet.com | David Lumb

One of the best things about Summer Game Fest is discovering games that blend some of your favorite classics into something wholly new. Crisol: Theater of Idols is a game with clear BioShock influence in its first-person shooter exploration, but melds some cult horror from games like Resident Evil 4 into the mix. On top of it all, to reload your gun, you've gotta sacrifice your own blood -- and take a chunk from your own health bar.
iPhone 'Flip': The Apple Foldable Is Still Rumored To Come in 2026

1 week ago | cnet.com | David Lumb |Vanessa Hand Orellana

We're half a decade into foldable phones, with plenty of devices from Samsung, Google and Motorola (as well as others from Oppo, Huawei and more) for consumers to choose between. Yet among big phone makers, only Apple still lacks one in its lineup. The latest flexible-screen devices, like the Galaxy Z Fold 6, the Motorola Razr Plus reboot and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold show mature designs and robust bending displays, leaving the foldables niche handily dominated by Android devices.
T-Mobile Debuts New Prepaid Plans With 5-Year Price Guarantee

1 week ago | cnet.com | David Lumb

T-Mobile has debuted new prepaid plans with a bump in data for its cheapest month-to-month plans, but the big upgrade is T-Mobile's guarantee that their prices won't change for the next five years, a feature on some of the best phone plans. T-Mobile introduced its five-year price guarantee on its premium plans back in April to appeal to subscribers wary of rising costs.
FBC: Firebreak Review - Fun in Co-Op, Dull in Solo

1 week ago | cnet.com | David Lumb

I'm hours into my second night of matches before FBC: Firebreak starts to make sense. I've got two other players in my squad, each with a different kit of equipment and weapons, as we fight off hordes of enemies while doing odd jobs around our haunted office building. After several missions, we've finally learned the game's atypical approach to team combat and how to back each other up. But one thing is clear: If you don't want to cooperate, this game isn't for you.
Hands-On: Crisol - Video

1 week ago | cnet.com | David Lumb
I Played FBC: Firebreak and It's No Fun Going on the Game's Dark Missions Alone

1 week ago | cnet.com | David Lumb

I'm hours into my second night of matches before FBC: Firebreak starts to make sense. I've got two other players in my squad, each with a different kit of equipment and weapons, as we fight off hordes of enemies while doing odd jobs around our haunted office building. After several missions, we've finally learned the game's atypical approach to team combat and how to back each other up. But one thing is clear: If you don't want to cooperate, this game isn't for you.
Ex-Inspector Craig Hurst recalls catching Coventry killer driver

1 week ago | bbc.co.uk | Caroline Gall |David Lumb

Image caption, Craig Hurst, a former inspector with West Midlands Police, was injured vaulting a fence reaching KasajA police officer forced to retire after breaking his ankle pursuing a man who had killed two people in hit-and-run crashes said it gives him solace knowing he stopped further deaths.
Cozy Horror Game Grave Seasons Is Stardew Valley Plagued by a Serial Killer

1 week ago | cnet.com | David Lumb

At Summer Game Fest, I tried a game that was bold enough to ask: Why doesn't Stardew Valley have more murder? Grave Seasons, due out next year, is a cozy farming sim with a morbid edge: It's about all the friends (and romantic partners) you make along the bloody way to stopping a serial killer. A little bit into the short demo of Grave Seasons, I took to the fields to clean up the run-down farm I'd broken into and decided to adopt, only to find a severed hand.
Cozy Horror Game Grave Seasons Is Stardew Valley Plagued by a Serial Killer

1 week ago | flipboard.com | David Lumb

9 hours agoThe Mennonite Colony That Made a Deal With a Diamond CompanyEight families of Mennonites have moved from Mexico to Angola, in southern Africa, raising fears among some Angolans that they will be squeezed out by the new arrivals.
Hands-On: Grave Seasons - Video

1 week ago | cnet.com | David Lumb