This week's biggest release is "Resident Evil Village," the latest in gaming's most popular horror series. In the new one, players must explore a creepy town and battle its monstrous citizens.
Driving the news: We asked the "RE: Village" producer Tsuyoshi Kanda about how the team figures out how scary their games should be.
In 2019, Epic Games agreed to a special deal getting a skeptical Sony to let PlayStation customers compete against Xbox gamers.
Why it matters: It was never clear why one of gaming's most frustrating barriers fell two years ago, especially given Sony's obvious, public resistance to cross-platform play.
The Apple/Epic trial includes formerly private emails between top CEOs and officials.
Why it matters: Both companies introduced documents into the court record highlighting each other’s failures, though that also showed how they handle emergencies.
Epic Games paid $146 million to exclusively sell "Borderlands 3" as it splurged to make its nascent Epic Games Store competitive with dominant PC gaming marketplace Steam, according to documents revealed on day one of Epic's high-stakes trial against Apple.
Why it matters: The documents illustrate how Epic has fared the last few years during its extraordinary "Fortnite"-fueled run. If not for the trial, much of this info would never have been made public.
Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen sent a note to more than a dozen senators on Monday expressing his concerns with T-Mobile's plans to shut down an older CDMA phone network still used by millions of Dish customers.
Why it matters: Dish has said it expected to have until at least 2023 to move customers over to newer networks, while T-Mobile now plans to shut down the network at the beginning of next year.
Tiger Global is talking to investors about raising $10 billion for a new growth equity fund, just one month after raising $6.7 billion for its last one, Axios has learned from multiple sources.
Why it matters: Tiger's investment pace is unprecedented, which means we have no idea how it's going to play out.
Uber and the electric vehicle startup Arrival are teaming up to develop an "affordable, purpose-built" EV for the ride-hailing industry that Arrival hopes to bring into production in late 2023, the companies said.
Why it matters: Making ride-hailing electric is important from a climate standpoint, given the mileage the vehicles travel and signs that ride-hailing replaces some walking, biking and mass transit use.
Twitter on Tuesday announced it's acquiring Scroll, the venture-backed news upstart from former Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile.
Why it matters: It's Twitter's second acquisition this year that's meant to help people read more long-form on the platform. In January, Twitter bought the newsletter publishing platform Revue.
Google and the energy company AES announced a 10-year deal to supply three Northern Virginia data centers with 90% power from zero-emissions sources on an hourly basis.
Why it matters: It's the latest move in Google's pledge to have all its operations run round-the-clock on carbon-free power by 2030.
Increased broadband usage is a pandemic trend that's here to say, analysts and telecom executives argue.
The big picture: Broadband usage increased 40% over the past year, the highest annual growth rate in nearly 10 years, according to new data from OpenVault. The massive jump is attributed to people spending more time at home with their devices, primarily streaming video.
The upcoming sale of Yahoo and AOL to a private equity firm for $5 billion represents a massive media markdown.
By the numbers: At their dotcom bubble peaks, Yahoo and AOL were valued at more than $125 billion and $200 billion, respectively, or $193 billion and $318 billion in 2021 dollars.
Former Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) is joining the board of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research lab that counted Elon Musk as a co-founder, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: Hurd is a former undercover CIA operative who's long focused on artificial intelligence issues in and out of Congress. He's been widely quoted since leaving Congress for his moderate perspectives and criticism of former President Trump.
