VCs see opportunities for gaming infrastructure startups and incumbents – TechCrunch

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[ad_1] As the infrastructure for developing games becomes more advanced, studios have turned to buying best-in-class technology from others instead of building everything from scratch (often with inferior quality). This shift underpinned Unity’s rise as the most popular game engine. The current focus on games as ever-evolving social hubs that can remain popular for a…

Clubhouse voice chat leads a wave of spontaneous social apps – TechCrunch

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[ad_1] Forget the calendar invite. Just soar into a dialog. That’s the concept powering a contemporary batch of social startups poised to take benefit of our cleared schedules amidst quarantine. But they may additionally change the best way we work and socialize lengthy after COVID-19 by bringing the free-flowing, ad-hoc communication of events and open…