Month: December 2020
PAX plans a return to in-person events in 2021
PAX events could return in their regular in-person format next year. Dates have been set for the 2021 installments of PAX East, West and Unplugged.As things stand, PAX East is scheduled to run June 3rd-6th in Boston. The gaming expo typically takes p… Source
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PAX still plans to host its in-person game festivals in 2021
ReedPop and Penny Arcade, the organizers of the PAX gaming conventions, announced on Friday that they plan to resume PAX East, West, and Unplugged in 2021. Organizers are planning to hold these events as long as it’s safe to do so. The organizers announced that they have no plans to…
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Why Slack and Salesforce execs think they’re better together
When Salesforce bought Slack earlier this week for $27.7 billion, it was in some ways the end of a startup fairytale. Slack was the living embodiment of the Silicon Valley startup success fantasy. It started as a pivot from a game company, of all things. It raised $1.4 billion, went…
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Biden coronavirus appointee has cut ties with Facebook, transition team says
President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming COVID czar, Jeffrey Zients, is facing new scrutiny over his corporate ties — particularly a two-year stint on Facebook’s board of directors. But the Biden transition team confirmed to The Verge that Zients liquidated his Facebook stock earlier this year and will retain no equity when…
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Razer is making gaming PCs for some reason, and they can come with up to an Nvidia RTX 3080 Razer Tomahawk
Razer has announced that its first modular PC, the Tomahawk Gaming Desktop, is finally here. The Razer Tomahawk was first shown off at CES earlier this year, with the company positioning it as a product than can take the hassle out of the PC building process for gamers, professionals and…
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Apple reveals its plan to make the App Store better for SMBs App Store
Apple has officially opened enrolment for its new App Store Small Business Program to help individual developers and smaller firms earn a larger cut of the proceeds from the apps they create. The program offers a commission rate of 15% for all developers that earn less than $1 million a…
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