Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by
Okay, so Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City wasn’t to everyone’s tastes, but just like the video games, leave it to the fans to be making amends. Case in point: director/producer Andrew Saullo is currently working on an adaptation of The Keeper’s Diary starring Charlie Kraslavsky from the original live-action cutscene for Resident Evil. For
It turns out that Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios previously worked on an Iron Man game for two years before it was ultimately cancelled. There are probably a million and one cancelled games we’ll never hear about due to non-disclosure agreements and the like, but recently Avalanche Studios co-founder Christofer Sundberg, speaking to MinnMax, revealed
The heat waves scorching the US this summer may just be the beginning of an extreme heat belt forming across the country. “If people think this was hot – this is going to be one of the better summers of the rest of their lives,” Matthew Eby, CEO of the climate-risk research nonprofit First Street
News Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal Gets Second Season at HBO The announcements comes on the same day as the Season 1 finale By Matthew Strauss August 19, 2022 Facebook Twitter Nathan Fielder in The Rehearsal (Courtesy of HBO) Facebook Twitter Tonight (August 19), the finale of the first season of Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal airs
Universal/Illumination’s Minions: The Rise of Gru bowed in China today (Friday), grossing an estimated RMB 21.74M ($3.2M), including midnights. This was good for the biggest opening day of a Hollywood animated film during the pandemic. Overall, and not including China’s Friday, Rise of Gru has grossed $461.2M at the international box office for $807.7M worldwide.
Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Reading recently about Germany’s €30 billion plan for its startups, I was intrigued. Did the country start to envy La French Tech? Is it
We have an exciting week ahead with some new shows! We have the highly anticipated Game of Thrones spinoff, new series Everything I Know About Love, and more! Scroll down to find out what we recommend. Saturday, August 20 8/7c Temptation Under the Sun (Lifetime) A detective embarks on a steamy affair with an ex-pat
Cinedigm announced today they have acquired North American rights to the Belgian survival horror film Deep Fear, which will have its world premiere at Fantastic Fest this September before streaming on the Bloody Disgusting-powered SCREAMBOX on October 11. Deadline first reported the news this afternoon. Directed by Grégory Beghin (Losers Revolution) and set in the
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Not long ago, cloud gaming was an afterthought for publishers and internet heavyweights like Google and Amazon, but it’s increasingly looking like the future. Nvidia has been working longer than most to make cloud gaming a reality, starting almost a
Play video content BACKGRID UPDATE 10:37 AM PT — A rep for Quando tells TMZ … “Quando was present during a shooting yesterday evening which resulted in the untimely death of another young man’s life.” UPDATE The rep continued … “He himself didn’t sustain any injuries during the shooting and is safe. We ask that
This San Diego Comic-Con announced several films currently in development. One of which was the extremely exciting announcement of the John Wick spin-off film, The Ballerina, partly thanks to the official casting of Ana de Armas as the title character. But it looks like de Armas had some conditions when she signed on to the
It is now known that during Hascon at the end of next month Hasbro will be showing the Indiana Jones 6″ line. Hasbro announced that they had the license earlier this year and I have been really looking forward to seeing this line. I don’t doubt that Hasbro will do figures from all five of
Hello hello! We’re back with another edition of Week in Review, the newsletter where we quickly recap the top stories to hit TechCrunch across the last seven days. Want it in your inbox? Sign up here. other stuff a16z backs WeWork founder’s new thing: When a company implodes hard enough that it inspires a miniseries,
If you’ve been seeing the chatter on Twitter about Barnes & Noble not stocking debut hardcovers, you’re not alone. Writers recently sounded the alarm after hearing from various sources (other writers, B&N reps, former B&N employees, other industry professionals, etc.) that the chain’s stores would only be stocking hardcovers that had proven sales records. When
Devolver Digital and developer Massive Monster have a hit on their hands with the recently-released Cult of the Lamb. The publisher took to Twitter to announce that Cult of the Lamb sold one million copies upon its first week of release across PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam, as well as release a new
Image: Nintendo The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is an amazing game and we probably could keep playing it forever, but as you might recall, it’s now been well over five years since this latest entry in the series was released (and next March will mark six). Yes, we’re talking about brand new
WASHINGTON — NASA is requesting information from industry on its capabilities and interest in developing a spacecraft that would deorbit the International Space Station at the end of its life. NASA issued the request for information (RFI) late Aug. 19, asking companies to supply information about how they could develop a spacecraft that would be
News Lorde Releases New “Oceanic Feeling” Video: Watch The latest beachside Solar Power visual By Matthew Strauss August 19, 2022 Facebook Twitter Lorde in “Oceanic Feeling,” directed by Joel Kefali and Ella Yelich-O’Connor Facebook Twitter Lorde has released another beachside video for a Solar Power song. This time, she’s shared the clip for “Ocean Feeling.”
Saturday AM: Thanks to two new wide releases, it’s not the lowest grossing weekend of summer, with all titles earning an estimated $77M, +14% from last weekend. However, we’re still way off from pre-pandemic times with the current weekend -36% from the same period in 2019. That’s when Universal’s R-rated comedy Good Boys opened to $21.4M
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. It’s been a week of people trying to make sense of what’s happening in tech. If you’ve been compartmentalizing: Cheers! Now let me walk you through what’s been going on. On Monday,
“Selling Sunset” producers are racing to fill the void left by Christine Quinn‘s departure … they need a new villain for the show, and they need to figure it out ASAP. Production sources tell TMZ … the folks who run the popular Netflix show are scrambling behind the scenes to figure out who is going
One Day at Horrorland was originally published in February 1994 (Spine #16). The series adaptation aired on Saturday October 25 & Saturday November 1, 1997 (runtime: 22 minutes). My eyes glossed over as they watched the trees thin through the car window and give way to seemingly endless stretches of farmland. We had only been driving
The latest video gaming software and hardware charts are in for the United States during the month of July from the NPD Group and it was the Smash Bros-inspired Multiversus which took the top spot this month. Xenoblade Chronicles fans will be pleased to see that the latest game in the series, Xenoblade Chronicles 3,
It’s sometimes said that you can smell fear, when, in fact, the signals that generate fear are often multi-sensory. A fire, for instance, has heat, smoke, and smell to give it away. An eagle flying overhead casts a shadow and creates a flapping sound as it swoops. It would be helpful for survival if animals
Johnny Depp has played many roles, but never a Moonman … and that’s all going to change at the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards with a planned surprise appearance from the movie star. VMA production sources tell TMZ … Depp’s been in talks with show producers to dress up as the network’s famous Moonman —
The John Wick series has always been a high-performance machine that outdoes itself with each entry. Keanu Reeves’ once-retired hitman sees the stakes increasing and the action getting more brutal with every continuing installment’s debut. The upcoming movie John Wick 4 is no exception, as director Chad Stahelski recently opened up about the pressure to
Zūm’s mission is simple — to introduce student transportation that is reliable, efficient, sustainable and transparent. To achieve the feat of modernizing an incredibly outdated, stuck-in-the-mud system, Zūm relies on cloud-based analytics software to create an agile bus routing system with real-time visibility for schools and parents. The startup also uses a diverse fleet that
ABC might take viewers back to the world of Ally McBeal. Almost 18 months after it was first reported that a revival of sorts could be in the works, Deadline revealed that a sequel series is in development. According to the outlet, the project would be written and executive produced by Karin Gist, and would
One Day at Horrorland was originally published in February 1994 (Spine #16). The series adaptation aired on Saturday October 25 & Saturday November 1, 1997 (runtime: 22 minutes). My eyes glossed over as they watched the trees thin through the car window and give way to seemingly endless stretches of farmland. We had only been driving