Nintendo Says No Switch Pro in 2020, But That Doesn’t Mean Anything

Nintendo just announced a new model of the Nintendo Switch for 2020. And it’s the one we’ve all been waiting for. That’s right, to go along with Animal Crossing: New Horizons, this March you can pick up a new Switch featuring pleasing, aesthetic, pastel blue and green tropical island colored Joy-Con along with a Tom Nook dock. There’s even a leafy carrying case. Can a video game console make you feel comfortable just by looking at it? A #NintendoSwitch...

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How Dubsmash revived itself as #2 to TikTok

Lip-syncing app Dubsmash was on the brink of death. After a brief moment of virality in 2015 alongside Vine (R.I.P), Dubsmash was bleeding users faster than it could recruit them. The app let you choose an audio track like a rap song or movie quote and shoot a video of you pretending to say the words. But there was nowhere in the app to post the videos. It was a creation tool like Hipstamatic, not a network like Instagram. There’s a reason we’re...

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This $350 Baby Yoda Statue Is Priceless

In case it wasn’t obvious before, the real reason Disney was so quick to crack down on unofficial Baby Yoda merch on Etsy or whatever was so that they could sell you their limited toys featuring the breakout star of The Mandalorian. The demand to see the baby is off the charts. Countless adoring fans would surely say that no amount of money is too much for the chance to care for their own Baby Yoda. And now they have a chance to prove...

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‘Final Fantasy VII’ Remake Is a Real Game Now, I Guess

Final Fantasy VII Remake may have gotten pushed back to April 10, 2020, but it’s still a miracle that this game even exists and is coming relatively soon. And now this new official trailer hints at the weirder aspects of the original game we feared this hyper-serious remake might leave behind, including Cloud in a dress! After a decent but not mind-blowing debut of its State of Play online press conference, Sony’s latest stab at a Nintendo...

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Lavish Test Footage for Cancelled Live-Action Star Wars TV Show Resurfaces

With the success of The Mandalorian, a new season of The Clone Wars coming to Disney+ in a few weeks, and news of a live-action Obi-Wan show hitting the same platform somewhere down the horizon, it can be hard to remember a time before Star Wars television seemed like a natural extension of the franchise. But in 2005, shortly after Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith hit theaters, the only small screen presence for the series was the old Holiday Special,...

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Twitter suspends notorious UK hate preacher for violating abuse rules

Twitter has confirmed it has temporarily suspended the account of controversial rightwing commentator, Katie Hopkins. The move was reported earlier by the BBC. Hopkins, a former MailOnline columnist and presenter on LBC radio, is a veteran of the social media platform, joining Twitter just under a decade ago — and using it amplify her brand of far-right leaning, liberal-baiting politics. She regularly tweets anti-immigration and anti-Islam sentiments,...

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Blizzard Owns Your ‘Warcraft 3: Reforged’ Mods

While I really really really don’t like MOBAs, I can’t help but be impressed by their humble and weirdly accidental extremely online roots. The first incarnation Defense of the Ancients, or Dota, wasn’t a game but a mod. It was a fan remix of the hero unit-centric real-time strategy game Warcraft 3. Dota was indirectly birthed by Blizzard, which is why they weren’t too happy when rival PC juggernaut Valve put out a game called Dota 2 to massive...

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Untitled Goose App Terrorizes Your Desktop

Untitled Goose Game was one of the biggest gaming phenomenons of last year. And that’s not me just still being starstruck after seeing the goose in person at the New York Video Game Awards last week. However, a reasonable criticism could be that the hilarity surrounding the goose, its memeworthy antics of bothering townsfolk and stealing stuff, is more entertaining than the casual stealth game itself. What if you want to experience the...

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Daily Crunch: Facebook’s profits disappoint

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Facebook hits 2.5B users in Q4 but shares sink from slow profits In its latest quarterly earnings report, Facebook said it now reaches 2.5 billion monthly users, up 2% from Q3 2019. And it brought in $21.08 billion in revenue, up 25% year-over-year. But profits...

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Live-Action ‘One Piece’ Sets Sail at Netflix

If you thought Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise was a massive, endless piece of magical pirate mythology, One Piece became the best-selling manga is history by following a band of noble sea thieves still searching for the titular treasure after over two decades. If you’re a newcomer and that sounds too daunting, or if you absolutely need to see a real person stretch like rubber, Netflix has good news for you. The streaming TV service...

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Social media boosting service exposed thousands of Instagram passwords

A social media boosting startup, which bills itself as a service to increase increase a user’s Instagram followers, has exposed thousands of Instagram account passwords. The company, Social Captain, says it helps thousands of users to grow their Instagram follower counts by connecting their accounts to its platform. Users are asked to enter their Instagram username and password into the platform to get started. But TechCrunch learned this week Social...

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‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 1 Episode 2 Recap: Out of Warp Speed

Patrick Stewart (Via CBS) CBS All Access’ long-awaited Star Trek: Picard began with a giant lore dump. Last week’s premiere was so packed with information, it was hard to keep it all straight. This week begins with probably the most important detail, except it actually shows us this time. The show begins on Mars 14 years ago. A mining crew greets a a ship full of androids. These are much more robotic than Data was, acting more like tools than...

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‘Nancy Drew’ Season 1 Episode 12 Recap: It’s a Madhouse

Kennedy McMann as Nancy -- Photo: Bettina Strauss/The CW We know the drill on Nancy Drew by now. New week, new lead. Nancy helpfully reminds us what she found out at the end of last week’s episode: Her mom was Lucy Sable’s guidance counselor. Nancy found transcripts of their conversation implying Lucy was afraid of her own mom. That doesn’t mean Lucy’s mom killed her, but it means she might know something. Unfortunately, Lucy’s mom is...

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‘Riverdale’ Season 4 Episode 11 Recap: Jeo-Parody!

Sarah Dejardins as Donna, Alex Barima as Jonathan, Doralyn Mui as Joan and Sean Depner as Bret -- Photo: Cate Cameron/The CW Only a week has passed since the big football game and Riverdale is already preparing for another big game. This time, it’s a big quiz show. Despite the incredibly short amount of time between Betty getting permission to start the quiz club and now, she’s already got a crew. More than that, she, Veronica, Cheryl,...

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Japanese Billionaire Decides He Doesn’t Need a Girlfriend to Visit the Moon

Yusaku Maezawa is SpaceX's first citizen astronaut (via Yasunari Kikum) Money really can’t buy you love. Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has pulled out of a reality TV show designed to find a female partner for his journey to the Moon. The 44-year-old entrepreneur was revealed in September 2018 as the first private citizen to travel beyond low-Earth orbit. But the 22nd richest person in Japan doesn’t like to be alone. Maezawa plans to assemble...

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