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Back to news homeAnalytics, AI and robotics help MLB teams get a step closer to a perfect pitching machine
The first pitching machine dates back well over 100 years. Obviously things have come a long way since that injury-inducing, gunpowder-fueled machine made its debut at Princeton University, but most […]
Google Play Games for PC is now available to all players in five countries
Google announced today that Google Play Games for PC, a program that lets users play Android games on Windows, is now available to all users under an open beta in […]
Wake up, new Pokémon just dropped
Today’s “Pokémon Presents” livestream wasn’t as chock-full of news as previous announcements about the upcoming Nintendo Switch games “Pokémon Scarlet & Violet.” Last time, we learned that the generation 9 […]
Gmail gets a new look, Instagram trips while trying to be TikTok and India blocks Battleground Mobile
Hello hello! Welcome back to Week in Review, the newsletter where we do a quick rundown of the most-read TechCrunch stories from the past week. The idea: When you’ve had […]
Gaming vets promise to make blockchain games fun and sustainable
The runaway success of Axie Infinity and StepN has convinced a flurry of entrepreneurs that web3 gaming, where the ownership of in-game assets is in the hands of users via […]
Roblox beefs up its developer tools as it looks to a future beyond games
When I spoke to Roblox in 2020, the company was in the midst of rebuilding its entire underlying infrastructure. It had been running into issues with downtime due to insufficient […]
As regulation heats up, will gaming studios’ gamble on loot boxes pay off?
You’d be hard pressed to find a game that doesn’t include some form of microtransactions these days, especially in mobile games. It just makes sense for gaming companies — an […]
Gaming-focused UnCaged Studios raises $24M to build good crypto games
UnCaged Studios, a web3-focused gaming studio, has raised $24 million in a Series A equity funding round to continue growing the crypto gaming industry. The raise includes investors from Griffin […]
Japan’s gaming blockchain builder Oasys raises $20M in private token sale
Veterans from the established gaming world are flocking to web3. Whether they do it out of a fear of missing out or genuine belief in blockchain technologies, the trend appears […]