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Throne, which lets fans gift items to creators from their wishlist, is launching a new gifting portal for family and friends called Happy Wishlist. However, the more interesting bit of the story is that last year, the company returned the money it had raised from investors and opted for the bootstrapped route. Starting Throne The startup was founded by Patrice Becker and Leonhard Soenke in 2021. The duo previously started the calendar management app Meeter, which was acquired by workflow automation startup Bardeen.…

Image: Shonen JumpOvernight, the world was shocked with the news that Akira Toriyama—the creator of Dragon Ball and Dr Slump among countless other manga, the character designer on legendary video games like Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger, and one of the most influential artists of our time—passed away. Now, fans and creators across the world are mourning his loss.There are not many ways to truly articulate just how influential Toriyama’s work was to legions of people—across mediums, across series, across forms and styles…

Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama has passed away. On Thursday, March 7, a statement published on the official Dragon Ball website announced that Toriyama had passed on March 1 due to an acute subdural hematoma. He was 68 years old. Toriyama was an acclaimed manga artist and character designer who first gained mainstream recognition in Japan through his sci-fi comedy manga Dr. Slump, published in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1980 to 1984. In 1984, Toriyama began publishing Dragon Ball, a martial arts adventure manga…

At the age of 68, Akira Toriyama, the legendary mind behind Dragon Ball, a globally adored Japanese manga, has departed. His passing on March 1, attributed to an acute subdural hematoma, a type of cranial bleeding, was confirmed on the official Dragon Ball website. Toriyama’s funeral was solemnly attended by close family and relatives. The statement on the website read, “We are deeply saddened to inform you that Manga creator Akira Toriyama passed away on March 1st due to acute subdural hematoma. He was 68. It’s…

Legendary manga artist Akira Toriyama, the creator of the internationally popular “Dragon Ball” series and character designer on the “Dragon Quest” video games, died Friday after suffering an acute subdural hematoma, his studio announced Thursday. He was 68.“He has left many manga titles and works of art in this world,” read the statement, which noted that Toriyama had multiple projects in progress at the time of his death. “Thanks to the support of so many people around the world, he has been able to continue his…

During the Capcom Highlights Day 1, Capcom revealed that the Character Creator for Dragon’s Dogma 2 is available now. Players interested in getting started creating their character as well as their Main Pawn can do so and then transfer the data to the full game when it releases in a couple of weeks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8MP3KyZX_4 Up to five Arisen & Pawns Instead of spending hours on release day figuring out exactly what Race and Class you want to make your character and Main Pawn, you can do so now…

RWBYImage: Rooster TeethSome 150 Rooster Teeth employees, as well as contractors and other creators, are left scrambling after today’s announcement that parent company Warner Bros. Discovery is closing it down after over 20 years in business. The production company created animated web series like Red vs. Blue and RWBY, as well as Max animated series gen:LOCK, which starred noted anime geek Michael B. Jordan.Who Wants DC’s Canceled Batgirl Movie? | New York Comic Con 2022As reported in Variety, the shutdown was announced…

Framed creator Joshua Briggs is back with another mystery game, and, this time, it has a supernatural element. RiffRaff Games has announced the upcoming release of Sleight of Hand, a "third-person card-slinging occult noir stealth sim" — a collection of words that alone have us very intrigued.Sleight of Hand follows Lady Luck, a former occult detective who must track down and defeat her former coven. Yes, excitingly, a woman is the noir protagonist, and she comes to Steeple City with a cursed deck (necessary, given she…

Microsoft engineer Shane Jones of OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 back in January, suggesting the product has security vulnerabilities that make it easy to create violent or sexually explicit images. He also alleged that Microsoft’s legal team blocked his attempts to alert the public to the issue. Now, he has taken his complaint directly to the FTC, “I have repeatedly urged Microsoft to remove Copilot Designer from public use until better safeguards could be put in place,” Jones wrote in a letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan. He noted that…

A Nobel Laureate who co-created graphene has made another discovery that could turbocharge numerous futuristic applications, from smart contact lenses to rapid disease detection. Konstantin Novoselov, who won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics, is among a group of scientists behind the breakthrough. The team announced today that they’ve unearthed unique properties in two unusual compounds: rhenium diselenide and rhenium disulfide — aka ReSe2 and ReS2. The duo comes from the same family of 2D…