TechCrunch 2024-04-12 12:00:40 Xpanceo is betting big on turning us all into cyborgs with smart contact lenses, securing a cool $40 million to make our sci-fi dreams a reality. Co-founders Roman Axelrod and Valentyn S. Volkov are on a mission to ditch traditional gadgets and make everyone’s eyes the new screens. Who needs smartphones when…
TouchArcade 2024-04-09 14:16:29 Over the last few years, I’ve been buying and using quite a few controllers across different consoles, PC, and mobile platforms. Some of them have been mediocre while others have been amazing. I also use these controllers across a variety of game genres and have slowly been finding how I sometimes prefer…
TouchArcade 2024-04-05 13:49:59 We’ve covered Aksys Games releases for about a decade by now here including the publisher’s old iOS releases like 999 (now delisted) to its output on Nintendo Switch and more-recently Steam Deck. Aksys Games was most known for Zero Escape and BlazBlue on consoles before the original Japanese publishers of those games…
TechCrunch 2024-04-05 11:00:41 Queerie is a dating app aimed specifically at LGBTQIA+ folks. It’s a very early-stage company that’s raising just $300,000 — a round size that typically falls into the “friends and family” category. Dating is a fiercely competitive space, and there’s been a fair amount of M&A activity over the years, so I…
TechCrunch 2024-03-29 11:00:37 It’s rare that I come across a pitch deck that ticks almost all the boxes. It’s so good, in fact, that I fed Plantee’s deck into an AI tool I builtand it determined there was a 97.7% chance that Plantee would raise money. This tool generally determines that only about 7.5% of…
TouchArcade 2024-03-26 14:20:23 Two years after launching, not only is Valve’s Steam Deck better than ever, but it also has a plethora of new big and small games arriving and working perfectly out of the box. There are some exceptions of course, but 2024 has been superb for the platform. While looking at what’s been…
TouchArcade 2024-03-15 14:17:27 The Steam Spring Sale 2024 began last night, and while it isn’t as big of a deal as say the Steam Winter Sale, you may as well take advantage of it to save money on some games you were planning to buy. I obviously recommend checking out your own Steam Wishlist to…
TechCrunch 2024-03-15 11:00:38 There are two industries that make a ton of money but they’re traditionally largely ignored by venture capital — movies and gaming. That comes as a bit of a surprise to many: Venture capitalists are known for their keen eye on high-growth opportunities, predominantly casting their lot with tech startups, healthcare innovations,…
GameSpot – All Content 2024-03-01 16:11:00 Some Helldivers 2 PC players are starting to use the Elgato Stream Deck to call in Stratagems while spreading democracy across space in the name of Super Earth. This is a strategy that some PC players have already been doing, but it started to pick up more traction when…
TechCrunch 2024-03-01 10:00:51 CommandBar, a B2B tool designed to make software easier to use, closed a $4.8 million raise in 2021 with one of the most starkly minimalist decks I’ve ever seen. The deck only has seven slides and is missing a ton of really important information, but that didn’t stop Thrive Capital and Y…
