And the winners are… Check out the best from the Crunchies 2012!
Borderlands 2 cosplay + cover song = True Vault Hunter status
Required listening: Ni no Kuni, Anarchy Reigns, and an interview with Aliens: Colonial Marines composer Kevin Riepl
Open-source social-mobile games platform OpenKit goes into closed-beta test
Funding Daily: Crunchies!
Uber strikes deal with California regulators to expand into ride-sharing
Sony invites the world to see the future of PlayStation on Feb. 20
Awesome Samsung ad that is all about Apple without saying the word ‘Apple’
Drone pilots stationed in Afghanistan talk video games in a Reddit AMA
Investors open gates for ‘online but off-cloud’ storage device
How Christie Street is de-risking the crowdfunded gadget
Microsoft releases ‘Bing Apps for Office’ to transform your documents into something much more like the web
Splinter Cell’s creative director has the best Minecraft story ever
Will.I.Am challenges underprivileged kids to look up to tech founders
Amazon is back up and running after extended outage
Want a Square card reader? Verizon stores are literally giving them away
PagerDuty gets $10.7M to become ‘central nervous system of IT’
42floors takes $12.3M to hack commercial real estate at home, abroad
Tearaway is a digital love letter to physical paper (hands-on preview)
Ashton Kutcher channels Steve Jobs when investing in startups
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Building for the Internet of things (and the demise of the client-server model)
Amplify Partners launches with a $40M IT infrastructure fund
Calling all game developers: You need to play and learn from Antichamber (review)
Mobile shopping apps generate less than 5% of total e-commerce revenue
Temple Run 2 hits 50 million downloads in 2 weeks
Miracle of miracles! Here’s a new tool for modern IE testing
Android tablets keep chipping away at the iPad’s marketshare
Chartboost invites international developers to experience Silicon Valley
Facebook introduces Cards, a universal gift card you can send anyone
With AngelList, 500 Startups goes application-only for its next batch of companies
This week in the Nintendo Download: Fire Emblem, Puddle, and The Cave
Samsung’s stylus love affair continues: Buys 5% of Wacom for $58.2M
Chinese hackers bring cyberwarfare to The New York Times
Silicon Valley’s pioneers gather for screening of PBS’s American Experience documentary
Amazon approves production on five original children’s shows
Fired employees hijack HMV’s Twitter to livetweet their ‘mass execution’
Brain-training service Lumosity hits 35M users and is now adding 100K users a day
Grand Theft Auto V release date delayed to Sept. 17
