Gamers flock to Palworld’s ‘Pokémon with guns’ despite copyright qualms

When Palworld made its inauspicious debut in a teaser a year or so back, few thought this strange, blatant Pokémon ripoff would be anything but a quickly forgotten oddity. But after its Early Access

ICE used ‘stingray’ cell phone snooping tech hundreds of times since 2017

Newly released documents show U.S. immigration authorities have used a secretive cell phone snooping technology hundreds of times across the U.S. in the past three years. The documents, obtained throu

All Hail The Hyetis Crossbow, The 41-Megapixel Smart Watch From Outer Space

Greetings, Earthling. I come bearing glad tidings of the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.hyetis.com/home/">Hyetis Crossbow</a>, a smartwatch with built-in mechanical movement and a 41-megapixel "l

With $100M+ Run Rate, Gett Reveals A New Look, App And Delivery Service As It Prepares To Do Battle With Uber

Another European on-demand car service <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/08/gettaxi-nyc/">is finding investors more than willing to bet</a> on its own fast-growing business, as it, too, follows

Watch Smartwatch Space For Continued Consolidation As Samsung Gears Up To Kick Off The Race

Last week, geek-focused early smartwatch player WIMM Labs was revealed to have been acquired by Google, lending strong support to earlier speculation that the search giant would enter the watch-based

Couples Apps, Please Stop Mating And Start Consolidating

Someone please make them stop. I know it's nearly Valentine's Day but couples apps: enough already. There aren't enough lovelorn long-distance teenagers in existence to sustain the rampant reproductio

Behind The Scenes: How Apple Keeps Grey Marketeers From Buying Out iPhone Stock In Shenzhen

Getting an iPhone in China has always been hard. For most of its life-cycle, the phone has been unavailable in the Mainland except through the grey market. Now that Apple is allowed to sell units in <

The 10 Best iOS And Android Games Of 2012

<b>Editor's note:</b> <em>Stephen Danos is the associate editor for the mobile app discovery site Appolicious.</em> This year’s most captivating games either pushed the envelope with state-of-th

Wreckateer: Microsoft Aims For Angry Birds With New Casual Game

We haven't been paying much attention to new games this E3 but a new title, Wreckateer, should be interesting to casual gamers who have a passing familiarity with another title involving avians who ar

Apple Opening Hong Kong Store, Should Prevent Future Crossbow-Related Smuggling

<a HREF="https://techcrunch.com/tag/Apple">Apple</a> will be opening a new store in International Finance Center Mall in Hong Kong this quarter. Ming Pao Daily, a local paper, noted that the store s

Chinese Smugglers Shoot A Zip Line Across A River To Illegally Ship iPads

Like <a HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bottle_Deposit_(Seinfeld)">Kramer and Newman</a> driving the mail truck into Michigan to make a profit on bottle can returns, Chinese smugglers shot an a

Introducing The Amazing, Magical HiPhone 5

If you've got $30 burning a hole in your pocket you can be the proud owner of a brand new HiPhone 5, a knock-off iPhone 5 modelled - we presume - on the leaked pictures of the iPhone 5. The phone, whi

Review: Rage

<strong>Short version:</strong> Probably the best-looking game I've ever played, despite a general lack of imagination. The gameplay itself, though, is (without exaggeration) probably less sophisticat

From The Makers Of "Machete Crossbow" – "The Avalaunche"

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/melon.jpg" />Remember a couple weeks back, we saw that <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/03/29/crossbow-that-shoots-machetes-is-jus

Daily Crunch: Lights Camera Edition

How To Survive The Coming Appization Of Just About Everything Double-Barrelled Pneumatic Water Cannon Makes The Greatest Noise Ever World Record Set For Most Flashes Used In One Picture: 300 Shoefitr:

This Is A Mini Crossbow Made Of Gold

For your morning edification I present to you without comment a mini-crossbow made of silver and gold. It can, if threatened, pop balloons. via reddit

CrunchGear Week in Review: Target Edition

Here are some stories from the past week on CrunchGear: This Is A Mini Crossbow Made Of Gold The Chargepad Is Panasonic’s New Wireless Charging Solution For Mobile Chargers Review: Antec Rockus 2.1

Crossbow That Shoots Machetes Is Just About Maximum Dangerous

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/crossboooow.jpg" />Up here in Seattle there's a band called <a href="http://www.myspace.com/agunthatshootsknives">A Gun That Shoots Knive

No Need For Arrows; This Bow Will Scare Your Quarry To Death

The last time I saw a tension-based projectile weapon this scary, it was when I posted this crossbow, attracting the ire of 2nd-amendment activists net-wide (my sarcasm apparently went undetected). Th

Pro gamers have brains like fighter pilots, lungs like career smokers

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/skull-xray.jpg" />File under: <strong>OMG</strong> Well, this isn't really that surprising. It's pretty much a natural progression from
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