Founded in 1994, the hardware company is expected to price today After the last few weeks of IPOs, you’d be forgiven if you missed Corsair Gaming’s own public offering. The company is not our usual fare. Here at TechCrunch, we care a lot of about startups, usually technology startups, which often collect capital from private…
Cloud gaming could be one of the biggest winners of the 5G revolution.Game makers, chipmakers, and carriers all stand to benefit.T, NVDA, AMD, and EA look like the best 5G stocks to buy.While coronavirus and the upcoming presidential elections have commanded investors’ attention lately, the rollout of 5G across the country could be another significant…
Some of the biggest names in online gaming in the United States have received letters from the U.S. government requesting information about their relationship with the multibillion-dollar Chinese technology company, Tencent, according to reports. Even as the U.S. Department of Commerce moves to block new downloads of the Chinese company’s popular messaging and payment app,…
There are some changes at the helm of Blade, the French startup behind Shadow. Mike Fischer is going to work for the company and become Chief Executive Officer. Jean-Baptiste Kempf is joining the company as Chief Technology Officer. Shadow is a cloud computing service for gamers. For a monthly subscription fee, you can access a…
Most gamers may not view Apple as a games company to the same degree that they see Sony with PlayStation or Microsoft with Xbox, but the iPhone-maker continues to uniformly drive the industry with decisions made in the Apple App Store. The company made the news a couple times late this week for App Store…
YouTube gaming streamer LazarBeam gets hit with a copyright strike on content from several years ago. The strike would prevent the streamer from uploading videos or streaming for a whole week. With nearly 16 million subscribers, LazarBeam is one of YouTube’s biggest gaming creators. He signed an exclusive streaming deal with the platform in January…
We continue to be stuck inside, and video games continue to sell well. It’s pretty much as simple as that, honestly. I mean, there’s more nuance than that, obviously, but that’s really the top line takeaway from NPD’s June gaming numbers. More specifically, last month saw $1.2 billion total spent on gaming, up 26% from…
The streaming wars have been getting more heated over the past year or two. Facebook has been making attempts at developing a streaming audience of its own, with a new app being the latest development. The new app focuses on mobile gaming and a casual audience, which might make it a more successful competitor to…
Valve publishes 2019 Year In Review. Over 20 billion hours of gameplay recorded in 2019. Valve plans to publish ‘data deep dives’ in 2020. Valve has published a 2019 Year In Review recapping the most significant improvements to hit the Steam digital storefront alongside some impressive figures. Over 20 Billion Hours of Gameplay in 2019…
When you look at all of the tech trend stories of the past decade, one important saga that’s likely to be overlooked is the platformization of gaming. In the 2010s, the value of video games was realized in a way that completely transformed how the majority of users experienced sitting down with their favorite FPS…
