Month: April 2023

The city-building genre is absolutely having a moment right now, whether at the big end of the market (Cities Skylines 2) or, more popularly, the smaller end (just look at Steam’s sales charts on any day of the week). Sliding effortlessly into this latter category is Terrascape, one of my favourite examples of the genre
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Warner Bros. Discovery unveiled more about its freshly rebranded streaming service, Max, during a press conference Wednesday. The event’s flurry of content-related announcements included new trailers for Max original series The Penguin and SmartLess: On the Road, plus the reveal that HBO has given a series order to Game of Thrones prequel A Knight of
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India’s smartphone exports have more than doubled, reaching over $11 billion in the fiscal year that ended in March, according to trade data examined by the industry body India Cellular and Electronics Association and government officials, underscoring the South Asian market’s growing ambition to become a global hardware manufacturing hub. Smartphone exports of $11.2 billion
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General Atlantic has poured another $100 million in PhonePe, three months after leading a $350 million investment in the Indian fintech startup that has so far raised $750 million in an ongoing financing round. Walmart-backed PhonePe disclosed the investment in a filing with the local regulator on Wednesday. A company spokesperson confirmed the investment. The
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed strict new emissions standards for cars, trucks and other light-duty vehicles that could lead sales of EVs to increase nearly tenfold by 2032. In what EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan called a “very ambitious proposal” in a call with reporters, the rules would greatly expand current emissions standards,
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I’ve reviewed a lot of board game adaptations of video games on this website, and with good reason: it’s the most intimate intersection of our board game and video game coverage. In nearly every case, the key consideration has been how does the board game feel compared to the original. What kind of concessions have
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The automotive industry’s transition to electric vehicles is ushering in a tidal wave of demand for batteries that’s upending national industrial policies, reshaping geopolitics, and sparking a surge of new factories that will pump out billions of cells. It may seem like the sector has exploded overnight, but founders, investors and multinationals have been laying
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