Gaming

Twitch, the Amazon-owned streaming service for gamers, is poised to surpass 40 million monthly active viewers in the U.S. as of next year, according to a new forecast from eMarketer out on Thursday. By 2023, it will reach 47 million viewers. Currently, the analyst firm estimates Twitch has 37.5 million ...

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More posts by this contributor Venture investing in elder tech Voodoo Games is one of the most interesting startups alive today. In mid-2018, it had 150 million MAUs and raised $200 million from Goldman Sachs, yet I’ve never heard anyone mention the company. That might be normal for an obscure ...

HQ Trivia is dead. Today the company laid off its full staff of 25 and will cease operation of its trivia, sports and word guessing games, a source close to the company confirmed. You can watch the insane, drunken final episode here HQ Trivia had a deal in the works ...

The drunken HQ Trivia finale before it shut down was insane – TechCrunch Josh Constine @JoshConstine / 1 day “Not gonna lie. This f*cking sucks. This is the last HQ ever!” yelled host Matt Richards . And it just got crazier from there.The farewell game of HQ Trivia before it ...

A new project called GameSnacks is launching today from Google’s in-house incubator, Area 120, with the goal of bringing fast-loading, casual online games to users in developing markets. Billions of people are coming online through mobile devices. But they’re often on low memory devices with expensive data plans and struggle ...

When Ubisoft first approached “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” stars Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day about creating a new show set in the video game industry, McElhenney said they weren’t interested — at least not initially. “Anything that we had ever seen in the past, from a movie or television ...

The growing market of fantasy sports in India may soon have a new and odd entrant: ShareChat . The local social networking app, which in August last year raised $100 million in a financing round led by Twitter, has developed a fantasy sports app and has been quietly testing it ...

The future (and past) of mobile gaming – TechCrunch We spoke with QuizUp founder Thor Fridriksson about the industry’s next decade Jordan Crook @jordanrcrook / 1 month The summer of 2008 changed everything. Apple’s launch of the App Store a year after the release of the iPhone was a watershed ...

What to expect in digital media in 2020 – TechCrunch Eric Peckham @epeckham / 4 weeks As we start 2020, the media and entertainment sectors are in flux. New technologies are enabling new types of content, streaming platforms in multiple content categories are spending billions in their fight for market ...