Gaming

The flagship Xbox Series X is arriving on November 10, and will carry a retail price tag of $499, Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday. The console will also be available for pre-orders beginning on September 22. Alongside the Xbox Series X console, Microsoft is also going to be selling a less ...

Apple strikes back at Epic Games, Android 11 is here and Microsoft announces a new stripped-down Xbox. This is your Daily Crunch for September 8, 2020. The big story: Apple files countersuit against Epic Apple has made the latest move in a legal battle against Epic Games, filing a lawsuit ...

Tencent just added another portfolio member to its expanding global gaming empire to up its game in mobile casual plays. Voodoo, the French company that has amassed 300 million monthly active users from its suite of mobile games, announced Monday that Tencent has become a minority shareholder in its business valued ...

As you can see, it offers a familiar Mario Kart feel overlayed on top of your home. Thereu2019s a pretty simple set-up process involved, with the user spacing out a series of gates to create a circular course u2014 think of it like a far more fun version of setting ...

Quick, what was the first portable gaming system Nintendo made? If you said “Game Boy”… solid guess, but not quite. For nearly a decade before Nintendo released that iconic gray beast, it was making the Game & Watch — a collection of handheld devices, each dedicated to playing just one ...

It has always been considered a matter of if, and not when, Nintendo would begin capitalizing in earnest on content from beyond the SNES generation. The company is finally showing its intent to do so today — but with an uneven approach that leaves some fans worried about its intentions ...

India continues to crack down on Chinese apps, Microsoft launches a deepfake detector and Google offers a personalized news podcast. This is your Daily Crunch for September 2, 2020. The big story: India bans PUBG and other Chinese apps The Indian government continues its purge of apps created by or ...

“High Score” is a new Netflix documentary series that looks back at the early years of the video game industry. Across six episodes, key developers, artists, executives and even players discuss the initial arcade and home console boom, the emergence of Nintendo, the rise of adventure and role-playing games, the ...

With Dorian, co-founder and CEO Julia Palatovska said she’s hoping to empower fiction writers and other storytellers to create their own games. The startup is announcing that it has raised $3.25 million in seed funding led by March Capital Partners, with participation from VGames, Konvoy Ventures, London Venture Partners, Michael ...

discovered by reverse-engineer Jane Manchun Wong, who often finds new features within an app’s code before they go live.n Twitter is always experimenting with interface changes in the hope of enabling better conversations. But fundamentally, its concept of an “online town square” may be at fault for the chaos and ...