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People Can’t Get Enough of Pokemon: Legends Arceus’ Hisuian Growlithe

PokémonPokemon Presents clearly had its own breakout star during the digital presentation on Wednesday, Aug. 18—and that star was Hisuian Growlithe. / Game Freak, NintendoPokemon Presents clearly had its own breakout star during the digital presentation on Wednesday, Aug. 18—and that star was Hisuian Growlithe. In fact, the Pokemon is so popular that several major fan made databases have already updated its page with its new information.According to its recently released Pokemon Legends PokeDex entry, Hisuian Growlithe is known as the "Scout" Pokemon (rather than the "Puppy" Pokemon in the

All New Gameplay Features Revealed for Pokemon Legends: Arceus

Pokémon"This is a tale of a time long ago when the lives of humans and Pokemon were still separate." / Game Freak, Nintendo, The Pokemon Company"This is a tale of a time long ago when the lives of humans and Pokemon were still separate."In development by the longtime Pokemon studio, Game Freak, Pokemon Legends: Arceus received its own time in the limelight during the Pokemon Presents presentation earlier this Wednesday, Aug. 18. We've broken down the biggest gameplay features players can expect when they first step foot in this latest

China roundup: Games are opium, algorithms need scrutiny

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. The question for the tech news cycle in China these days has become: Who is Beijing’s next target? Regulatory clampdowns are common in China’s tech industry but the breadth of the recent moves has been unprecedented. No major tech giant is exempted and everyone is being attacked from a slightly different angle, but Beijing’s message is clear: Tech businesses are to

SenpAI.GG wants to be your AI-powered video game coach

With most popular online video games, there’s a huge gap between being a good player and a great one. A casual player might be able to hold their own against other casual players, only for a random pro to wander by and chew through everyone like they’re somehow playing with a different set of rules. Could an AI-driven voice in your ear help close that gap, if only a bit? SenpAI.GG, a company out of Y Combinator’s latest batch, thinks so. Much of that aforementioned gap boils down to practice,

TNC Predator announce brief hiatus from Dota 2 competitions to give players time off

TNC Predator hasn’t competed in a Dota 2 competition since the end of the 2021 Dota Pro Circuit’s regular season at the start of the month. Now, the organization has officially announced that its team will be taking an extended hiatus to “recharge and realign.” No changes to the roster are being made and the organization is keeping the team together, with plans to reconvene after a break to practice for a post-TI10 set of competitions and the 2022 DPC. This decision was made after TNC failed to qualify for

Pro tips from the team behind Kickstarter’s most funded app

Alex Ruzh Contributor Alex Ruzh is the CEO and co-founder of memoryOS, an edtech startup developing AI-powered gamified software teaching people how to remember anything. Here at memoryOS, we have a saying we repeat often: “Most of the Kickstarter happens before the actual Kickstarter.” Preparation is the key. But even if you understand that most of the work is done in advance, you should still prepare yourself for some sleepless nights after the launch date. The usual startup mantra will apply to your crowdfunding campaign just as well: Measure, analyze

PGL eye alternative locations for 2021 Major

PGL, the company in charge of the first CS:GO Major set to happen since the breakout of the coronavirus pandemic, posted an update on the PGL Stockholm Major on Tuesday. They confirmed reports that due to the COVID-19 regulations currently in place in Sweden, moving the Major to a different location is a possibility. PGL is considering two different European countries for the upcoming Major The tournament organizer explained that the Major was planned to happen in front of a large crowd, but current regulations in Sweden would allow just

Among Us free trial available for Nintendo Switch Online members starting July 21

Nintendo Switch Online users will have the chance to try out Among Us on the console for free over the next week thanks to a free trial offered by the service. Members of Nintendo Switch Online can download and try out the full game from July 21 to 27 and can pre-download the game right now. Among Us is the breakout hit of 2020 and was one of the most dominant titles in gaming while the world was stuck at home. The game that initially launched in 2018 found new

Cardano DeFi Project Spores Raises $2.3 Million in Funding Round

It was a tough week price-wise in the cryptocurrency market. The total capitalization lost around $100 billion as every single coin from the top 20 is in the red. Some lost more than others, but we’ll get to that later. Kicking it off with Bitcoin. It had a relatively calm week, and even though it’s down about 3% over the period, it’s still not as bad as a lot of the altcoins. BTC was trading at around $34,000 last Friday, and apart from a brief positive spike on Monday, it

LEC power rankings: 2021 Summer Split week 5

Just three weeks remain on the 2021 LEC Summer Split schedule and the playoff field is starting to formulate. Apart from some unlikely races shaping up in the middle of the standings, the LEC is looking pretty familiar to fans of the league.  But the next three weeks of the regular season will determine which League of Legends squads advance to the postseason and who goes home early. With just three games separating the top seven teams in the league, we could realistically see the entire LEC shift between now