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What an ‘Airbnbopoly’ Game Says About Silicon Valley’s Standoff With Lina Khan

What an ‘Airbnbopoly’ Game Says About Silicon Valley’s Standoff With Lina Khan

Four years ago, one of Vice President Kamala Harris’ top donors—the billionaire cofounder of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman—celebrated the IPO of Airbnb, a company he was heavily invested in, by fashioning Monopoly boards where the game’s “jail” space is replaced by “government regulation.” Since Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee, many billionaire tech investors have come out of the woodwork to support her campaign. While they often tout Harris as a business-friendly politician, they’ve been vocal in their dislike of Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan’s antitrust agenda. Hoffman is one of the most influential donors in that group. He has donated tens of millions of dollars in support of the Biden and Harris campaigns and has organized other wealthy tech investors to do so as well. When Airbnb went public in December 2020, the company was valued at more than $47 billion. Hoffman sent at least a handful of other investors a board game styled after Monopoly called “Airbnopoly,” according to images of the game obtained by WIRED. A top Airbnb investor confirmed that he …

Popular video game Football Manager delayed until next year | Science & Tech News

Popular video game Football Manager delayed until next year | Science & Tech News

Popular video game Football Manager has been delayed again – this time being pushed back until March next year. The franchise is one of the more popular sports games on the market but its production this year has seemingly been laden with issues. FM25, this year’s game, was billed by developer Sports Interactive (SI) as a “new era”, with it seeing the long-awaited introduction of the women’s game, as well as being powered by a new engine. SI admitted that it had been a “difficult development cycle” and in an update posted in September it admitted to having faced unanticipated problems as it announced a number of features would be stripped from the latest edition. Last month, SI said that features like international management wouldn’t be available in FM25, and that its release date had been pushed back from the start to the end of November. Then, on Thursday, SI said that the game was delayed until March 2025. X This content is provided by X, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To …

This Streaming Service Has All the Video Game Soundtracks I Love to Listen To

This Streaming Service Has All the Video Game Soundtracks I Love to Listen To

Game soundtracks are a way of life. Most gamers can probably remember the first time they heard the iconic Super Maro Bros intro, their favorite track from the Fantasy Fantasy series, or the legendary opening bars to the OpenTTD soundtrack. Okay, perhaps not so much the latter, but video game soundtracks often leave a special mark—and there is one streaming service with almost every soundtrack you could ever want to listen to. Why Spotify Is the Best Music Streaming Service for Video Game Soundtracks If you’re like me, you’ve grown up with and still love video games. I don’t have as much time as I’d like to play these days, but the soundtracks to the games I play live long in the memory. As said above, the Super Mario Bros theme tune is probably the most iconic video game music track, closely followed by the original Tetris theme tune. But while these pillars of the genre are almost universally known (and have a propensity to become earworms!), the video game soundtrack world is vast. It …

Kurt Vonnegut’s Lost Board Game Is Finally for Sale

Kurt Vonnegut’s Lost Board Game Is Finally for Sale

Kurt Von­negut’s life was not with­out its ironies. Fight­ing in World War II, that descen­dant of a long line of Ger­man immi­grants in the Unit­ed States found him­self impris­oned in Dres­den just when it was dev­as­tat­ed by Allied fire­bomb­ing. To under­stand the rel­e­vance of this expe­ri­ence to his lit­er­ary work, one need only know that his cap­tors made him live in a slaugh­ter­house. It’s not sur­pris­ing that anti-war sen­ti­ments would sur­face again and again in the books he wrote after com­ing home. But one would hard­ly expect him to have spent his time away from the writ­ing desk on a mil­i­tary-themed board game. “After releas­ing his first nov­el, Play­er Piano, in 1952, to pos­i­tive reviews and poor sales, he need­ed oth­er streams of income to sup­port his grow­ing fam­i­ly,” writes the New York Times’ Julia Carmel of the young Von­negut. Of all his endeav­ors — which includ­ed pub­lic rela­tions, a car deal­er­ship and a very brief stint at Sports Illus­trat­ed — he was most pas­sion­ate about design­ing a board game called Gen­er­al Head­quar­ters.” Read­ers of Von­negut’s …

The Rocky Horror Picture Show Is Now a Retro Video Game

The Rocky Horror Picture Show Is Now a Retro Video Game

The Rocky Hor­ror Pic­ture Show–it start­ed first as a musi­cal stage pro­duc­tion in 1973, then became a cult clas­sic film in 1975. Now, a half-cen­tu­ry lat­er, it gets reborn as a retro video game. Sched­uled to be released by Hal­loween, the game fea­tures “8‑bit chip­tune ren­di­tions of Rocky Hor­ror’s leg­endary songs,” includ­ing the “Time Warp” of course. Accord­ing to The Wrap, it also boasts “8‑bit-styled graph­ics bring­ing the show’s sets and char­ac­ters to life, com­bin­ing ’80s nos­tal­gia with the show’s ’70s retro vibes.” The game will be avail­able for Sony Playsta­tion, Xbox, Nin­ten­do Switch and Steam. Enjoy. via The Wrap Relat­ed Con­tent How Rocky Hor­ror Became a Cult Phe­nom­e­non 1978 News Report on the Rocky Hor­ror Craze Cap­tures a Teenage Michael Stipe in Drag Rare Inter­view: Tim Cur­ry Dis­cuss­es The Rocky Hor­ror Pic­ture Show, Dur­ing the Week of Its Release (1975) Source link

Whitney Cummings to Host ‘Friends’ Game Show for Max

Whitney Cummings to Host ‘Friends’ Game Show for Max

Whitney Cummings is set to host the upcoming Max Friends fan-competition game show, titled Fast Friends. The four-part special, announced earlier this week amid the 30th anniversary of the hit NBC sitcom’s 1994 premiere date, is set to start filming next month in New York at the city’s flagship location of the Friends Experience interactive exhibit. The location features a number of Friends set pieces, creating a familiar backdrop for series superfans to test how well they know the beloved show. The show’s description reads, “From racing through Rachel and Monica’s apartment to darting across Joey and Chandler’s bachelor pad and grabbing a coffee at Central Perk, fans will re-live their favorite moments while being put to the test with trivia, puzzles and games that will keep even the most die-hard Friends fans on their toes. The quickest team will win the title of ‘Ultimate Friends Fan.’” In a statement, Cummings said she was “beyond thrilled” about her new gig, referring to herself as a “longtime fan” of Friends. “After 30 years, the fandom surrounding …

How to Watch the San Francisco 49ers vs. Los Angeles Rams NFL Week 3 Game: Start Time and Live Stream

How to Watch the San Francisco 49ers vs. Los Angeles Rams NFL Week 3 Game: Start Time and Live Stream

The battle for California reignites once again on September 22, as the San Francisco 49ers take on the Los Angeles Rams in Week 3 of the 2024 NFL season. One of the most intense rivalries in the NFL, fans are bound to see that extra drive to stomp out the competition from both teams this Sunday.  Watch 49ers vs. Rams on Sling After an unlucky streak of injuries, both teams will be stepping onto the field this Sunday with some notable gaps in their lineup. The 49ers are missing McCaffrey and Samuel, while the Rams will be without Nacua and Kupp. So the win will go to the team that manages to rally, even without its star players. Here are all the ways to watch the San Francisco 49ers vs. Los Angeles Rams Week 3 rivalry game.  When Is the San Francisco 49ers vs. Los Angeles Rams NFL Game? The 49ers head to LA to take on the Rams on September 22. Kickoff is at 4:25 p.m. ET (1:25 p.m. PT). What Channel Is the …

How to Watch the Tennessee vs. Oklahoma College Football Game Tonight: Time, TV Channel, and Live Stream

How to Watch the Tennessee vs. Oklahoma College Football Game Tonight: Time, TV Channel, and Live Stream

The 2024 college football season has entered another jam-packed Saturday with more of the games on the weekend slate starting to count for conference standings. Tonight the Oklahoma Sooners get their official welcome to the SEC as they host the Tennessee Volunteers. This will be the Vols’ first real test of the season. Watch NCAA Football on Sling TV Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel will be back at his alma mater. In 2000, Heupel was the Sooners’ quarterback — leading them to the BCS national championship while finishing second in the Heisman Trophy race. That makes tonight’s must-watch game a homecoming of sorts. Fans who can’t make the trip to Oklahoma Memorial Stadium can still stream the game live at home. Here’s everything you need to know about how to watch the Tennessee vs. Oklahoma NCAA football game tonight, including the full Week 4 schedule and all the best livestream options. How to Watch the Tennessee vs. Oklahoma Football Game Without Cable Tonight’s Tennessee vs. Oklahoma college football game will air on ABC. If you don’t have cable, you can …

What Hamster Kombat is teaching us about game marketing | The DeanBeat

What Hamster Kombat is teaching us about game marketing | The DeanBeat

GamesBeat Next is connecting the next generation of video game leaders. And you can join us, coming up October 28th and 29th in San Francisco! Take advantage of our buy one, get one free pass offer. Sale ends this Friday, August 16th. Join us by registering here.  Game marketing is changing, thanks to Hamster Kombat, a tapping mini-game on Telegram that has been downloaded more than 300 million times since March. It took only 73 days for Hamster Kombat to reach its first 100 million users. Traditional marketing tactics are losing their power when it comes to attracting the attention of target audiences, said Tavia Wong, chief marketing officer at Credbull, a small private credit company in Asia with a dozen employees. The age of the viral game is back, at least on one platform. And many are starting to copy the formula like PiP World, Bondex, Gamee and Liithos. In an interview with GamesBeat, she said that Web3 tap-and-earn games like Hamster Kombat are the unexpected inspiration for marketing professionals, and she believes every …

How to Watch the Oregon vs. Oregon State College Football Game Today: Time, TV Channel, and Live Stream

How to Watch the Oregon vs. Oregon State College Football Game Today: Time, TV Channel, and Live Stream

Week 3 of the 2024 college football season features jam-packed lineup of must-watch games today. The No. 9 Oregon Ducks travel to face the Oregon State Beavers and renew their rivalry known as the Civil War. These in-state rivals both have 2-0 records this season and will now go head-to-head as the Ducks look for their first win in Corvallis since 2018. Watch Today’s Game on Sling TV For the first time in the history of this rivalry, today’s game will be a non-conference matchup. It’s the Ducks’ first season in the Big Ten, but they’ve had a less-then-stellar start with narrow victories over Idaho and Boise State. Meanwhile, the Beavers took down Idaho State and San Diego State in the Pac-12 that Oregon left behind. Fans who can’t make the trip to Reser Stadium can still stream the game live at home. Here’s everything you need to know about how to watch the Oregon vs. Oregon State college football game today, including the full Week 3 schedule and all the best livestream options. How to Watch the Oregon vs. Oregon State …