Though PC games often have endless menus and submenus of graphics settings to tinker with, console games have historically run the same way for everyone on the same hardware. More recently, as consoles have diverged into multiple versions, such as the PS4/PS4 Pro or the Xbox Series X/Series S, you might get a choice between
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Whether you’re an avid gamer or just a casual fan, having a wide variety of games to choose from is never a bad thing, right? With Humble Bundle, you can easily stock up on a bunch of PC games. From first-person shooters to cozy forest games, you can get 12 games per month for just
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Y Combinator’s new era, with smaller batches, a refocus only on early-stage investing and a new chief executive, is in full swing. As The TechCrunch team sat through
Welcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. I spent quite a bit of time lately looking at the latest in insurtech. What’s great about zooming in on a sector is that
I watched The Super Mario Bros Movie during its opening week with the intent of writing this Easter eggs and references article, only to realize that the movie is nothing but Easter Eggs and references. A thorough roundup would be indistinguishable from a wholesale rundown of the entire movie. The plot for The Super Mario
Back in 2021 I wrote that foldable phones were disappointing, providing little to no revolution in how we use our phones on a daily basis, beyond the novelty of a screen that bends. They’re perfectly fine. But once you get over the initial fun of the fold, they’re really just another Android phone. The problem
Everyone loves a new phone. However, nowadays you don’t get everything you need in the box anymore. Which is frustrating to say the least. Especially when you’re shelling out for the latest and greatest iPhone. But luckily there are a lot of great, inexpensive chargers to choose from. Apple’s 20-watt USB-C power adapter sells for $18, which
Show more (1 item) Don’t settle for the expensive razors from the grocery store that only leave you with razor burn and an empty wallet. Online shave clubs have a lot to offer, including variety, quality and savings — not to mention the convenience of having shaving products shipped to your door. There are tons
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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is almost here, and from the looks of it, the enigmatic faction called the Zonai may play a big role in the sequel after mostly existing in the background of Breath of the Wild. If you’re feeling like you’re walking in on something or like you missed
Red, Green, and Blue are the bestselling Pokémon games of all time, and as the games that first launched the franchise on Game Boy in Japan way back in 1996, they’re old enough that I was convinced I’d seen every form of homage and fan media dedicated to Pokémon’s humble beginnings. I was wrong. I
Hello, you join us in the middle of the ongoing culture war between Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Walt Disney Company. This week, DeSantis seems mad that people are (rightfully) claiming Disney outsmarted him and his cronies. And he’s promising to escalate the war between him and Disney with new taxes and more. 10
When The Exchange wrote about Sweden’s startup scene at the end of last month, we said we’d revisit the Nordics this week. Well, a promise is a promise. But after spending hours watching YC’s Winter 2023 Demo Day pitches this week, we also couldn’t help but try to connect the dots: Are Scandinavian startups making
Every new PC requires the obligatory christening of your browser of choice, Steam, other game storefronts, and miscellaneous productivity apps (in my case, that’s Obsidian, VCV, Reaper, Guitar Pro, and Reason..new computer days are super busy for me) are obvious immediate downloads. But once you’ve got the basics, it’s time to grab some games. But
A YouTuber was shot in the stomach on April 2 in a Virginia mall after attempting to play what he called a “simple practical joke” on a man. The Week In Games: Trapped-Filled Towers And Teenage Dreamers Off English Tanner Cook is a member of the Classified Goons, a group that has been posting prank
Star Wars: Clone Wars and Rebels fans, rise up. We’ve been waiting a long time to be properly fed, and with the latest news and trailers coming out of Star Wars Celebration, we’re finally getting a good look at the Rosario Dawson-led Ahsoka series. Read More: Daisy Ridley Returns As Rey In Star Wars Movie
Skips and speedruns are basically like magic, to me. The tenacity it takes to find ways to break a game and circumvent entire sections is a skill and patience I don’t have. That being said, I’m always glad to watch someone just walk or drive through a wall and end up somewhere they weren’t supposed
iOS 16.4 is here and available to download now. The update comes with a handful of bug and security fixes, as well as new features, like fresh emoji and Voice Isolation for phone calls. Below are some of the biggest additions to your iPhone with iOS 16.4. And here’s what you need to know before installing the
/ Google is giving one year’s notice as it ditches more products it can’t migrate to Google Home, but there’s still no official end-of-life for the Nest app. One more year.Will Joel / The Verge Google is ending support for the Dropcam and the Nest Secure home security system in exactly one year, on April
I got excited — very excited — when I found out that Substack’s equity crowdfunding effort would result in it releasing financial results. Sadly, due to rules and the timing of the fundraise, Substack is not required to detail its financials for 2022, and so the startup released hard data for 2020 and 2021 along
Bluetooth speakers come in a variety of sizes and shapes. If you’re looking for a speaker that’s truly travel friendly, you’re going to want one of the top mini Bluetooth speaker options. But if you’re looking for something with big sound that packs some real punch, a larger Bluetooth boom box or party speaker is
Microsoft shut down classic game emulation on the Xbox Series X/S on April 6 and a small but passionate community of retro enthusiasts, preservationists, and homebrew devs are up in arms. They’re calling on the console maker to reverse course and make legal emulation easy again, even if it means potentially antagonizing competitors like Sony
On April 6, 5-Time World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen lost in a dramatic and surprising way: His mouse slipped and he moved his queen to the wrong spot, instantly costing him the match. Not only did this knock him out of the tournament and cost him a chance at the sizable $30,000 top prize, but
/ With Chrome 113 web apps may get more access to your graphics card. Image: The Verge Google has announced that WebGPU, an API that gives web apps more access to your graphics card’s capabilities, will be enabled by default in Chrome 113, which is due out in around three weeks. WebGPU will be available
Apple Watches monitor activity and biorhythms using sensors on the smartwatch’s underside that press against a user’s wrist. But future versions of Apple’s wearable could use sensors in the watch band to track hand gestures too, a new patent suggests. When an Apple Watch wearer makes a hand gesture, muscles and tendons in the wrist
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Well, hello there! Haje is getting a head start on the weekend, so it’s going to be me and you for the next two days. I’ve been among the group of TechCrunchers
AI research startup Anthropic aims to raise as much as $5 billion over the next two years to take on rival OpenAI and enter over a dozen major industries, according to company documents obtained by TechCrunch. A pitch deck for Anthropic’s Series C fundraising round discloses these and other long-term goals for the company, which
/ As Rafiki said to Simba in The Lion King: it is time. Here’s everything you need to know about leaving Wear OS 2 behind. Illustration: Samar Haddad / The Verge The Wear OS 3 rollout hasn’t been the smoothest. It’s totally understandable if you decided to stick it out on Wear OS 2 until
Apple has devised a pocket-sized companion that (hypothetically) does it all: music, videos AND books, sans the nagging smartphone or clumsy smartwatch. Cupertino, you’re so close. In a patent application published recently by the U.S. Patent Office, Apple sketched out such a device, a headphone-case-meets-pocket-computer with a touchscreen display and the prerequisite guts for flicking
Staytuned Digital has $34 million in new equity and debt to continue developing a software suite for e-commerce brands with a goal of what co-founder Serge Kassardjian described as “the Salesforce suite for e-commerce stores.” “E-commerce has completely shifted and is moving to these emerging platforms, with Shopify being the biggest one,” he said. “In