Month: March 2020
How to work during a pandemic
The world is bracing for the seemingly inevitable proliferation of SARS-COV-12, also known as COVID-19 and coronavirus, which has already paralyzed cities and isolated millions. In the U.S., especially the nonstop work culture in startups, we tend to think we’re immune to such things and carry on business as usual.…
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Lionkiller turns the legend of Mulan into an interactive story during the Opium Wars
It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend. Tools like Twine have made it easier…
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Facebook’s Messenger app redesign makes chatting more streamlined
If you use Facebook Messenger to keep in touch with family, friends, and random acquaintances you met on vacation six years ago, you’ll be seeing an update to the apps for Android and iOS appear over the next few weeks. As reported by TechCrunch, chat bots are getting demoted in…
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China Roundup: Apple closes a 4-year-old App Store loophole
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, Apple made some major moves that are telling of its increasingly compliant behavior in China where it has…
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Making money from games: the future of virtual economies
In Part 6 of our multiverse series, we discuss the business opportunities and compliance challenges of virtual economies Eric Peckham @epeckham / 11 hours Fictional portrayals of virtual worlds such as “Ready Player One” and “The Matrix” typically portray the physical and virtual worlds as distinct realms siloed from each…
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Run an America full of talking animals in Democratic Socialism Simulator
There are simulation games that try to be neutral. SimCity never lays out its philosophy of urban planning. Democracy lets you rewrite its rules to role-play any democratic system. These are games that aim to reflect reality, and sometimes, developers even recoil at the idea that they have an ideology…
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