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Monday, August 23, 2021 Monday, August 23, 2021 ForeVR execs Marcus Segal and Mike Pagano. Hollywood-based virtual reality gaming studio ForeVR Games Inc. raised $7 million in additional seed financing to grow its studio and slate of offerings.The round was led by Redwood City-based venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from investors including New York-based Galaxy Interactive, Zynga Inc. founder Mark Pincus and Twitch Interactive Inc. founder Emmett Shear, the company announced Aug. 17. The investment brings ForeVR’s total funding to $8.5 million. The company plans to use the funding to build out its team, develop new games, expand its products to additional platforms and continue to upgrade its recently released VR bowling game, ForeVR Bowl.  “ForeVR Bowl and the rest of the ForeVR lineup represent the best of what’s possible with VR games and, I believe, will be as important to this medium as Zynga was to mobile,” Sam Englebardt, general partner at Galaxy Interactive, said in a statement. Founded in 2020, ForeVR aims to translate popular and classic in-person games into VR formats. The company is led by Marcus Segal, former senior vice president of operations at Zynga, and Mike Pagano Doom, former chief executive of Built Games.…

StarTropics, part of Shacker's choice night! Tonight on the Stevetendo show, we have another Shacker's choice night, where one of our loyal viewers picks the game for me to play. This time the choice comes from Shacknews Contributing Editor/Skankcore64 host Bryan Lefler. He has spent his hard-earned Shack Points to select NES classic, StarTropics, for us to take on. For those who aren't aware, StarTropics was created for the North American market and didn't release nor was intended to release in Japan. Join me at 6 p.m. PDT/ 9 p.m. EDT to find out if we'll be able to help Mike Jones find his uncle, who's lost somewhere in the South Sea? Shackers who want to join in on the fun can head over to the Shacknews Twitch channel, where you can tune into the Stevetendo show every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. If you can't make tonight's show, we'll be back at 5 p.m. PDT/ 8 p.m. EDT Tuesday and Wednesday. We'll continue our Pokemon Emerald playthrough Tuesday and our Final Fantasy 7 playthrough Wednesday so join us for all the fun! The Stevetendo show, as well as other great Shacknews programs, wouldn't be where they are today without the help…

Genshin Impact livestream start time (Image: MIHOYO) Sign up for FREE for the biggest new releases, reviews and tech hacks Invalid emailWe use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More infoUPDATE: New Genshin Impact Redeem Codes have been shared today by Mihoyo as part of the official Genshin 2.1 release date reveal, with the latest codes available below:DSPVUN2BKH5M - 100 Primogems and 10 Mystic Enhancement Ores.CB7UU6KT2H59 - 100 Primogems and five Hero's Wits.NTPVU7JTJYPD - 100 Primogems and 50000 Mora.Today's stream confirmed that the Genshin Impact 2.1 release date has been scheduled for September 1 and will include Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn as the new unlockable character.ORIGINAL: The Genshin Impact 2.1 release date will be announced today as part of the big Genshin livestream hosted on Twitch. Developers Mihoyo is set to reveal all its big plans on Friday, August 20, as part of the ongoing expansion of the hit PS4, PC and Mobile game.We already know a little part of what to expect from today’s show, including what characters…

“Bloomsbury” is a neighborhood in London, but it is better known today as the group name for the area’s most famous 20th-century residents: a collection of British artists, writers, and intellectuals, including Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, and John Maynard Keynes, whose anti-establishment views changed the course of modern culture. The members of the Bloomsbury Group promoted free verse and free love. They wrote anti-war pamphlets, showcased post-Impressionist art, and published books via the Hogarth Press, established by Leonard Woolf and his wife, Virginia. They jokingly called themselves the “Bloomsberries.”Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism, a Biography, by Mark Hussey. Bloomsbury, 578 pp., $40.The linchpin of the group was Virginia Woolf’s sister, Vanessa Stephen (1879-1961), who married the art critic Clive Bell in 1907. Vanessa, Virginia, and their two brothers lived at 46 Gordon Square, in the Bloomsbury neighborhood near the British Museum, where they hosted the group’s meetings. Their house became a magnet for cultural elites such as D.H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Pablo Picasso, and others.Bell was part of this clique of trendsetters, but he was and is one of the least appreciated. Known primarily for his seminal 1914 book Art, Bell promoted modernism to a…

Steven Spohn passed a goal this week that he’s been chasing for nearly a year. He raised over a million dollars for AbleGamers, a charity that seeks to improve accessibility in games and connects disabled people with peer support and adaptive tech for gaming. Spohn has been its COO for 15 years. The charity’s mission, he says, is about giving people with disabilities access to “that sense of independence and that feeling of exploration or excitement or relaxation, whatever it is you’re going for, to help you mentally get through the tough times.” Spohn has multiple progressive illnesses that impact his functioning. He started the fundraising campaign, Spawn Together, in September of last year to celebrate his 40th birthday. He says he hoped that more funds for AbleGamers would enable it to continue its work as he eventually loses more mobility or the ability to talk or type. “I just want to make sure that when I’m not able to do that stuff, that everything’s gonna keep going as well as it can,” he says. Today is my 40th birthday!For my 39th birthday, I made friends with @TheRockTo celebrate this milestone, I'm going to raise $1,000,000 for charity.But I'm going…

Popular Musician and YouTuber Corpse Husband has officially joined Twitch after demand from his fans, and he's already making a splash on the streaming platform. After merely two streams, Corpse Husband has already reached an insane milestone. On July 31, Corpse Husband made an announcement on Twitter that he would be streaming on Twitch the next day with Valkyrae, Sykkuno, and Poki. Being unsure of how it would go, Corpse Husband expected some growing pains, but he got more than what he bargained for. After merely two streams on Twitch, Corpse Husband has been able to reach one million followers. After his Twitch announcement on Twitter, Corpse Husband gave his fans less than 24 hours to prepare for his first stream. During his first Twitch stream, Corpse Husband teased a new song for his very first viewers to get something out of joining him for his first stream. Within just a few hours of his first stream, Corpse Husband was able to reach 74,000 viewers. Maintaining his undead theme, Back 4 Blood was fittingly Corpse Husband's choice for his first two streams. Back 4 Blood is a co-op zombie shooter for which Corpse Husband teamed up with Valkyrae, Sykkuno, and…

by Steve Ellwanger , 2 hours ago  The first campaign for SunChips in four years is a design-led effort aimed at rejuvenating a brand that’s been around for more than three decades.“Be Your Own Wave” is a play on the whole-grain snack’s unique, curvy shape and a call to action for younger consumers to embrace their individuality.Consumer research led to packaging design changes before the campaign concept was conceived, according to Ciara Dilley, vice president of marketing at Frito-Lay North America.“Design-led thinking is critical for this brand,” Dilley tells Marketing Daily. “When we had done all the visual work, only then did we go to our agency and say ‘now bring us a campaign.’ Once we got that far, it wasn’t hard.”In the core 30-second spot from The Marketing Arm agency, Asian-American actress Deborah Lee Yi takes on the role of Stephanie—who walks along a beach while introducing musician Drew Forde, mural artist Erin Miller Wray and skater/dancer Keon Saghari.advertisementadvertisement The first iteration of “Be Your Own Wave” focuses on artists partly because “they’ve had a really hard time during COVID,” says Dilley. As the campaign progresses, “We can see how we can start to bring even more and more real-life…

On Friday Aug. 13, Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa spent a whopping 14 hours on camera. However, this was not the unusual part of her day; as one of the most tireless streamers on Twitch, she racks up hours with workmanlike consistency. The curveball didn’t come until later, well into the evening, when a strange gleam outside Siragusa’s window signaled that something was amiss. Upon closer inspection, the cause quickly became clear: Garbage stacked against the outside wall of her Houston, Texas, home — and precariously close to both her and her assistant’s cars — had burst into flame.Fortunately, firefighters arrived before the fire could spread enough to do serious damage, but the implications of the incident are worrying.“The cause of the fire has not yet been determined, but investigators strongly suspect arson,” Siragusa wrote on Twitter of the incident, of which The Post has viewed both a video and photos.Story continues below advertisementSiragusa is, in terms of hours watched, the most popular female streamer on Twitch. In the second quarter of 2021 alone, viewers spent nearly 13 million hours watching her — roughly double that of Siragusa’s closest competition. But notoriety and controversy often go hand in hand, and this goes…

100 Thieves co-owner Rachell ‘Valkyrae’ Hofstetter hasn’t streamed on Twitch since she signed a contract with YouTube. How Twitch is handling her account over a year later has left her speechless.  Since signing an exclusive contract with YouTube over a year ago, Valkyrae has definitely stayed too busy to think about Twitch and her 1.1 million follower account. The creator has starred in a music video with Machine Gun Kelly, in which she plays the faceless YouTuber and musician Corpse Husband, as well as becoming an official co-owner of 100 Thieves alongside CourageJD, Drake, Nadeshot and a few other investors. During an August 16 stream on YouTube, Valkyrae received a comment in chat: “Did you know if you search your name on Twitch, it shows Sykkuno?” YouTube: ValkyraeValkyrae has gained popularity in recent months by appearing in multiple music videos. Valkyrae reacts to the search results After reading the chat message out loud, the streamer responded, “Hold… hold up. HOLD UP!” before opening the Twitch homepage and typing her name into the search bar. After a couple of seconds staring at the screen, she yelled: “Whta? HUH?!” before scrolling halfway down the result page and yelling out “Valkyree?! One?!” —…

Legendary Twitch star Asmongold is predicting that WoW will be seeing some monumentally huge changes in upcoming patches that will either make or break the iconic MMORPG. World of Warcraft has been bleeding users in recent months, thanks in part to other games rising the ranks and Blizzard’s own issues, both pertaining to WoW and the company as a whole. Now, the popular streaming personality is claiming that fans will be in for some crazy new updates soon that will change the game forever. “I think WoW needed this,” the streamer revealed. “They needed this, because odds are the executives and the leadership that’s in charge of the game will see this and they will restructure the team. I guarantee you that they will.” According to Asmongold, these changes have been needed for many years, with the current team being too slow to make decisions, unwilling to listen to the players, and constantly making mistakes.  Read More: The best race for each class in WoW Shadowlands “The team that works on WoW doesn’t know what they’re doing,” he added. “You don’t lose over 50% of your player base and get to claim that you know what you’re doing.” The Warcraft…