GamesBeat’s Rachel Kaser sees the games industry has lost people in the last weeks, between widespread layoffs and high profile retirements.
A time of departures | Kaser Focus
Month: September 2023
VW bails on its plan for a $2.1B EV plant in Germany
Volkswagen’s $2.1 billion plan to launch a dedicated electric-vehicle factory in Wolfsburg, Germany is kaput. The automaker instead reportedly plans to modify its existing plants in Zwickau and Wolfsburg to handle production of a new flagship EV — the postponed Project Trinity — and an […]
When predatory investors damage your chances of success
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. You know what isn’t a great idea for my energy levels? Enjoying a week of TechCrunch Disrupt and then getting straight on a plane to attend a startup event in […]
Kick streamers consider leaving over CEO’s comments in a sex worker ‘prank’ stream
Streamers are leaving Kick en masse in protest of the platform’s lack of safety guidelines, after a prominent creator streamed an encounter with a sex worker without informing her that there were other people present. She was briefly prevented from leaving after she expressed discomfort, […]
The Gamer and the Mouth mixes gaming and comedy
Cinemark and RealGoodTouring are putting on a new kind of live gaming event that marries gameplay with stand-up comedy.
The Creator review: A visually stunning, yet deeply shallow, AI epic
Equal parts Terminator, The Golden Child and The Matrix prequel, The Creator is yet another sci-fi epic about a war between humans and AI, one told by someone who just can’t shut up about their time backpacking across Asia. Director Gareth Edwards clearly understands the […]
The co-founder of a collapsed crypto hedge fund was arrested in Singapore
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Su Zhu, the co-founder of the collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), was arrested in Singapore on Friday. Zhu was taken into custody while attempting to leave the country from Singapore’s Changi Airport, as reported earlier […]
A time of departures | Kaser Focus
GamesBeat’s Rachel Kaser sees the games industry has lost people in the last weeks, between widespread layoffs and high profile retirements.
Your phone will blare a national emergency alert test on October 4 at 2:20PM ET
The federal government will conduct a nationwide alert test on Wednesday, October 4. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will send notifications to cell phones (as well as radios and TVs) to test the National Wireless Emergency Alert System […]
BeReal pushes back at report that it’s losing steam, says it now has 25M daily users
Just under a year ago, the buzzy new social app BeReal looked to be on the rise, with reportedly 20 million users launching the app every day to snap their candid photos. However, in the months since, BeReal’s traction has declined, according to a new […]