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Source: The Verge “ That’s one of the things about our museum, it’s hands-on,” says VCF East showrunner Jeffrey Brace. “If you go to the Smithsonian, everything’s locked away. You can’t touch it.” Throughout the festival, I played Oregon Trail on an Apple IIe, operated a renovated Heathkit H-89, doodled using every paint application from the…
Source: Venture Beat The Esports World Cup Foundation (EWCF) announced a record-breaking $70 million-plus prize pool for the upcoming Esports World Cup 2025. Read Full Article
Source: The Verge After a bit of a brief, unexpected delay due to a component issue, the Google Pixel 9A is here — and it was worth the wait. Allison Johnson’s review of the midrange phone just went live today, and the 9A seems like the ideal phone for those who want many of the…
Source: Venture Beat Xsolla, a global game commerce company, has partnered with Altava Group, a digital fashion and virtual entertainment company, to bring fashion IP to games. Read Full Article
Source: The Verge “Live from London, it’s Saturday Night” is a phrase you’re going to start hearing on a weekly basis next year. Variety reports that Sky Studios is working on a British adaptation of NBC’s longrunning Saturday Night Live sketch series. Like its American counterpart and previous international riffs on the series, Saturday Night…
Source: Venture Beat Mika Games Invests $2 Million in Hybrid-Casual Game Set to Surpass Plants vs. Zombies A gaming fund launched by Wargaming co-founder Nick Katselapov invests in Agonalea Games, the Buenos Aires-based studio behind Punko.io, the hybrid-casual tower defense game that delivers the mid-core experience players crave. With the product model’s revenue surging 30%,…
Source: The Verge Around 2009, Dweezil Zappa ran into a space problem. He was busy touring the US, performing some songs written by his father, Frank. Recreating those signature “peculiar sounds,” as Zappa calls them, required lugging around a massive rig — roughly the size of two large refrigerators — held together by more than…
Source: Venture Beat The University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication will be home to the Karch Gaming Institute. Read Full Article
Source: The Verge The United Kingdom is preparing to respond to the series of tariffs President Donald Trump has introduced since taking office. New taxes on everything from pure-bred horses to bourbon are on the table, but the Labour government seems more interested in a conciliatory approach, and it’s considering sacrificing a popular tax on…
Source: The Verge Allison Johnson is the smartphone reviewer for The Verge, along with, as she says, “a bit of telecom on the side, which means I am a professional phone user.” She came to The Verge from DPReview, where she covered digital cameras and smartphone cameras. That looks like a cozy space. Where in…
