Roblox Corp.’s valuation had been rising slowly and steadily until shooting up earlier this year. Ars Technica Roblox Corp.’s IPO instantly makes it one of the most valuable publicly traded video game publishers. Ars Technica Roblox Corp.’s revenues saw a large bump last year just as pandemic quarantines were going into effect. Ars Technica The […]
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iOS and iPadOS 13 beta 4 signals death of 3D Touch, rise of Context Menu
Back in 2015, Apple introduced pressure-sensitive iPhone screens alongside 3D Touch as a potentially major hardware-software innovation, but barely supported the feature, leading to informed speculation that all of 2019’s iPhones would lose their pressure-sensing hardware. Today’s release of the fourth iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 developer betas appears to put the final nail in […]
Putting Red Dead Redemption 2’s 23 million shipments in context
Fig. 1: Just a few months out, RDR2 is already approximating the sales of some much older and more storied franchises. Fig. 2: RDR2 still has a long way to go to match GTA V‘s incredible sales pace, but is already putting many older Rockstar titles to shame. Fig. 3: RDR2 was one of the […]