Fourth of July weekend may be coming to a close but there are still countless deals to take advantage of online. We’re still seeing big discounts on everything from kitchen appliances to new tablets. Apple’s iPad is among the most popular tablets on the market, but it definitely isn’t the most affordable. Thankfully, the 64GB 10th-gen
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HP/Apple/CNET Although the Fourth of July has come and gone, you can still grab some excellent deals on a new laptop that can greatly upgrade your daily life. Whether you prefer an Apple MacBook, a Windows laptop or a Google Chromebook, you can save hundreds of dollars if you act now. We’ve compiled the best
This week saw some “discourse” flare up around the storytelling in Final Fantasy 14 and specifically its new expansion, Dawntrail, and we’ve got thoughts. Also, don’t miss our commentary on what appears to be Sony winding down active support for the PS4, and how cloud gaming can be really cool in the right situation. According
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This week, we’ve got the latest on how Nintendo plans to prevent its Switch successor from falling into reseller hell the way its current console did upon release. Also, a game that was banned for featuring underage nudity made an appearance in a convention sales booth, and we’ve got 16 great indies for you to
If you’re looking for a new mattress to help keep the hot summer night scaries away, try sleeping cooler with Purple. Our CNET sleep experts have been testing, reviewing and recommending Purple mattresses for quite some time. Senior producer and sleep writer Owen Poole even slept on one for five years. When you think of
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In 2002 a group of friends in Italy started developing an action-platformer with RPG elements for Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance handheld. Then 22 years passed and now, in 2024, Kien is finally launching on GBA, ending one of the longest delays in video game history. Suggested Reading Kotaku’s Hopes For Spyro The Dragon’s (Reported) Comeback
Welcome to Startups Weekly — TechCrunch’s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Most interesting startup stories from the week Even seemingly crowded categories can see newcomers climb up the ranks. This includes social media: A new app called
Everyone knows at least one super fan in their life who won’t shut up about the Trails series, Nihon Falcom’s sprawling universe of beefy RPGs with an overwhelming number of sequels, subseries, and interwoven narrative arcs spread out across multiple decades. Fortunately, the latest game in the franchise, The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak,
We are just about five months away from Sonic the Hedgehog 3’s theatrical release on December 20. It’s been three months since Paramount gave fans a private premiere of footage from the film in April, but after months of waiting and theorizing about when a public trailer might drop, most fans haven’t seen a frame
Arrowhead, the developers behind the hit co-op shooter Helldivers 2, have recently been struggling to get a bit of weaponry into the hands of its community. Helldivers 2 players have consistently failed to unlock a new stratagem—deployable weapons and tools to use mid-match—for months on end. Things have gotten so dire for those poor things
Capcom announced today that after just a year of updates, its live-service dino killin’ game—Exoprimal—will be going on life support as it has no further plans to add new seasonal content to the game after its last update. Suggested Reading Why Everybody Hates This Dragon’s Dogma 2 NPC Off English Suggested Reading Exoprimal was first
July is here and so are its wonderfully (or not so wonderful) high temperatures. Here in the States, we just wrapped a holiday that feels…well, do I need to spell out how discordant and weird things are here right now? Probably not. Oh, hey, that’s right: Video games! Escapism isn’t always the healthiest of strategies,
As one of the best-selling video games of all time, one that has individually outsold entire video game series like Assassin’s Creed, it’s always been disappointing that Grand Theft Auto V never got story DLC. The franchise has had incredible DLC in the past, like GTA 4’s outstanding The Ballad of Gay Tony, and yet
Foodfight!, an infamously horrible CG animated comedy starring product mascots, almost got a tie-in PS2-era video game. And while the tie-in game was never finished, largely because the movie lingered in development hell, we now have access to assets from the Foodfight! game and have a more complete story of what this thing was and
If you’re looking for Fourth of July sales on Apple products, look no further. Because, even though the holiday has passed, you have plenty of options right now across various models of Apple Watch, iPad, AirPods, MacBooks and more. We found deals from Amazon, Best Buy and other major retailers, and we’ve made things easy for
We’re about four months away from TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, taking place October 28 to 30 in San Francisco! We could not bring you this world-class event without our world-class partners — some of the startup ecosystem’s leading tech companies. Why? They show up armed with their expertise, educational resources and connections. They present sessions on
Quantum Rise, a Chicago-based startup which does AI-driven automation for companies like dunnhumby (a retail analytics platform for the grocery industry), has raised a $15 million seed round from Erie Street Growth Partners. Its approach is somewhat akin to UIPath’s, a company famous for bringing robotic process automation to the enterprise, but with a broader
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Urban Armor Gear is having a sitewide 20% sale on its products to celebrate the Fourth of July. By using the code USA20 at checkout, you can take advantage of this deal, which lasts from July 1 to July 7. This is especially great because Urban Armor Gear made CNET’s list of the best iPhone
Astonishingly, this is the fourth year in a row Kotaku has celebrated Indie-Penance Day, since the holiday was invented to mark the liberation of gaming from the cruel rule of the British monarchy. To mark the occasion, we’ve picked a selection of some of the most interesting, enticing, unknown upcoming indie games that deserve to
/ The upcoming Pixel 9 phones are expected to ditch the old optical fingerprint scanner for an ultrasonic one that works in more situations. By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Share this story It should be
According to a recent Dealroom report on the Spanish tech ecosystem, the combined enterprise value of Spanish startups surpassed €100 billion in 2023. In the latest confirmation of this upward trend, Madrid-based VC fund Seaya has closed Seaya Andromeda, an “Article 9” €300 million climate tech fund based out of Madrid. Article 9 refers to the EU’s Sustainable
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YouTuber and Twitch streamer Kai Cenat finished a livestream with MrBeast in style: He, seemingly, had his streaming room blown up by fireworks. The stunt, because of course it was, terrified the vast numbers of live viewers. Suggested Reading Kotaku’s Hopes For Spyro The Dragon’s (Reported) Comeback Off English Suggested Reading Kai Carlo Cenat III
In May, 2022, Variety reported that Netflix was developing a series based on hit PlayStation game, Horizon Zero Dawn. Part of the flurry of announced adaptations following the success of HBO’s The Last of Us, showrunner Steve Blackman was attached to the project that would see a live-action Aloy and her fight against the robosaurs
With the big day upon us, Fourth of July sales are at their peak. Thankfully, there are plenty of deals that will take the pinch out of buying a shiny new Apple product. There are significant savings to be had on Apple’s best products, including the all-new iPads and MacBooks. You can also grab a bargain
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Thus far, only one Activision Blizzard-published game has made its way to Xbox’s Game Pass subscription service, almost a year after Microsoft finalized its deal to purchase the massive Call of Duty publisher. But a new report claims more Activision games will (slowly) start coming to the service in the near future. Suggested Reading Why