OpenAI’s Sora, which can generate videos and interactive 3D environments on the fly, is a remarkable demonstration of the cutting edge in GenAI — a bonafide milestone. But […]
PlayStation will lay off 900 employees, including ‘Marvel’s Spider-Man’ and ‘The Last of Us’ developers
PlayStation will lay off around 900 employees, with studios such as Naughty Dog and Insomniac among the game developers impacted.
Gamescent Lets You Smell Your Video Games Because Why Not
Video game worlds are expansive places with lots of sights and sounds. With the advent of virtual reality, you can almost touch the environments you’re inhabiting. But scent has been one of the senses that gaming technology could never quite get right. (I mean, who wants to smell Ganondorf or Link when they probably…
Kevin Costner’s ‘Horizon: An American Saga’ trailer weaves a Western epic
Kevin Costner’s bringing all that “Yellowstone” buzz into a two-part Western epic, “Horizon: An American Saga”. Watch the trailer.
KKR to acquire VMware’s end user computing biz from Broadcom for $4B
We’ve already started to see big M&A, as in multi-billion deals, finally pick up this year after a slow period last year. Today, KKR added to that growing […]
Skull and Bones Review
There are too many Dutch. Six warships are actively engaged with me, lobbing mortars, zipping torpedos, and peppering my vessel with all manner of cannon shot. Along the horizon I count 13 more ships, all hostile. I’ve already plundered a cache of documents from this innocuous seaside lumber camp, so my duty to the…
With liquidity rare, VCs may get creative to return investor cash
Welcome to the very last issue of The Exchange! With TechCrunch+ sunsetting this month, The Exchange column and its newsletter are also coming to an end. Thank you […]
A bumpy road for EV manufacturers
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Need For Speed Unbound Drifts Onto PlayStation Plus
Driving games can loosely be divided into two sub-genres: simulation and arcade. The former category includes the likes of Gran Turismo or Forza (not the Horizon series) and focus on more realistic racing. But the latter is all about fun over realism. 2022’s Need for Speed Unbound, the latest release in the…
Golden Ventures secures another $100M to invest in Canada’s tech ecosystem
Golden Ventures, a Canada-based venture capital firm, closed on over $100 million in capital commitments for its fifth fund targeting high-potential, seed-stage founders working across technologies, including AI, […]