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Titanfall 2 will have a single-player campaign and a companion TV show, Respawn Entertainment’s lead writer Jesse Stern told Forbes in an interview. This revelation shows that Respawn — started by Call of Duty veterans Jason West and Vince Zampella — is being a lot more ambitious with its first-person shooter that was a big hit when […]... →

The Super Bowl is the crowning glory of sports in the United States, but it hasn’t been without it’s mishaps. They aren’t the last minute fumbles, missed field goals, or obvious interceptions either. They’re those unfortunate outside incidents that stopped or changed the course of the game. In many cases, today’s real time technologies could have been applied… Read More... →

Google is planning to release a new virtual reality headset for smartphones this year, pegged as a successor to its Google Cardboard platform and similar to Samsung’s Gear VR. The company will add extra support for the technology to its Android operating system, according to a people familiar with its plans cited by The Financial […]... →

Apple has repeatedly shown its contempt for gaming, and the company still hasn’t changed. Developer Tyrone Rodriguez, founder of studio Nicalis, revealed that Apple has rejected The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth from the App Store (first reported by EuroGamer). The game has players taking on the role of a boy named Isaac whose mother has […]... →

FEATURE: Today is Super Bowl 50, and about 120 million people are expected to watch the Denver Broncos square off against the Carolina Panthers. That’s one-third of all Americans, many of whom have never played pigskin, watching one professional football game. And yet there’s another sport that in just a few years has become played by […]... →

GUEST: As any entrepreneur will tell you, one of the biggest challenges in growing a business is knowing which responsibilities of the business to hand off. Even more difficult is knowing when to hand them off. In order for the business to grow, this handoff has to happen, but if you don’t execute it strategically, the […]... →

GUEST: There are now 24 billion-dollar companies in the sharing or collaborative economy. This is up from 13 in 2014, reflecting a jaw dropping 71% increase and about one new addition every month. The size of the sharing economy billion-dollar club has almost doubled every year since 2012. New additions in 2015 can be found across the collaborative economy landscape. Fintech […]... →

TechCrunch is excited to announce the 100-person Crunchies Board who collectively picked the winners of the 9th Annual Crunchies award. Early last month the law firm Perkins Coie delivered ballets to these TechCrunch editors, entrepreneurs, investors and other tech notables. The law firm then tallied the ballets and is keeping the winners secret until tonight, when the awards will be handed out… Read More... →

Graphene, the super thin carbon material that’s been exciting scientists in the decade+ since single-atom thick graphene crystallites were successfully extracted from the bulk material, continues to give hints of a promising future blending electronics and biology. Read More... →

GUEST: In life as in work, we’re constantly dealing with uncertainty. As parents, employees, leaders, we look at the future and estimate the odds: what’s the chance that our teenage son will do drugs? What’s the chance that this system’s load will exceed what we designed it for? How likely is this risky investment to result […]... →

To really appreciate how sophisticated this sport has become, here’s a look at some of the ways Super Bowl technology has evolved in the last fifty years. Read More... →

Самые популярные и обсуждаемые тексты уходящей недели на vc.ru — в традиционном воскресном дайджесте.... →

GUEST: Too many misconceptions persist about how to publish mobile games in Saudi Arabia. Here are some guidelines for would-be publishers to follow. You don’t need to hyper-localize! Yes, the top charts show that games like Tribal Rivals do well, but it’s not because the characters are in dishdashas and the landscape’s full of deserts. Gamers […]... →

Last year was one of great momentum for civic tech. We saw more people and resources than ever enter the space, garnering interest from startups, corporations, government agencies and investment firms. Kicking off 2016, civic tech is a fast-growing field with tangible potential to improve the relationship between citizens and government. Read More... →

Verizon, the parent of TechCrunch’s parent AOL, is being accused of violating net neutrality principles by excluding its own mobile video streaming service, go90, from data charges — thereby creating an unequal playing field. Read More... →

В начале 2016 года компания «Иннова» запустила новое игровое СМИ — «Фогеймер». Продакт-менеджер платформы «Фогейм» Микаэл Гелецян и руководитель «Фогеймера» Алексей Макаренков написали для рубрики «Рынок игр» статью, в которой рассказали как о редакционной, так и о менеджерской стороне проекта.... →

Более 180 тысяч пользователей iPhone пожаловались на появление «ошибки 53», которая приводит к исчезновению личных данных владельца устройства, а также оставляет смартфон в неработоспособном состоянии. Эта ситуация вызвана обновлением операционной системы до iOS 9 и спровоцирована самой Apple, пишет The Guardian.... →

Блогер, редактор и медиадиректор Сергей Король в своём блоге собрал несколько правил работы с электронной почты, которые могут помочь структурировать переписку, а также сделать каждое письмо максимально эффективным. vc.ru публикует материал с разрешения автора.... →

Предприниматель Олег Грибанов продал свой проект wwwRaiting российскому бизнесмену, имя которого не раскрывается. Об этом Firrma рассказал Грибанов. По его словам, сумма сделки составила 1 млн рублей. Олег Грибанов запустил проект в 2013 году и вложил в него 300 тысяч рублей. wwwRaiting представляет собой рейтинг студий веб-дизайна и digital-агентств.  Как рассказал Олег Грибанов, он решил продать проект, потому что последние полтора года им почти не занимался, так как работал над новым стартапом Darenta – ... →

Twitter и Applied Marketing Science выяснили, насколько пользователям важно внимание бренда в соцсети и что из этого можно получить

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