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Halloween: The Game demo remembers what makes Michael Myers so scary
Halloween: The Game PAX East demo highlights a faithful take on Michael Myers’ slow, stalking horror.
5 new Xbox games to play in April 2026
Xbox owners are getting a bounty of games to check out this month, including Kiln and Hades 2.
Global VC investment hit a record $297B in Q1 2026, up 150% YoY, with AI startups capturing 81%; OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo raised 64% of the total (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
Gené Teare / Crunchbase News:
Global VC investment hit a record $297B in Q1 2026, up 150% YoY, with AI startups capturing 81%; OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo raised 64% of the total — The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs.
Amazon's Monstress adaptation has tremendous potential, if handled right
Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda's Monstress is being developed as an animated series. It could be great, but the challenges are significant.
Austin-based Coder, which helps developers build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised a $90M Series C led by KKR, after raising $35M in 2024 (Julia Hornstein/The Information)
Julia Hornstein / The Information:
Austin-based Coder, which helps developers build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised a $90M Series C led by KKR, after raising $35M in 2024 — Coder, a startup making software for developers to build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised $90 million …