Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Razer unveiled the latest Razer Blade 18 laptop with faster graphics and a 4K 200 Hz display for high-performance gaming. Coming after the debut of the Razer Blade 16 and Blade 14 […]
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Think Web3 games are crappy? Yuga Labs is leaning into that with Dookey Dash: Unclogged, a Bored Ape universe game with a lot of toilets. The “dookey” here refers to stuff that goes in a toilet with green liquid. Led by Yuga Labs chief gaming officer Spencer Tucker and Alex Paley, cofounder of Faraway, the […]
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Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Layer 2 blockchain LightLink announced it has raised $6.2 million in funding in an extended seed round. LightLink extended its seed round investment due to high demand from institutional and individual investors […]
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Pixelynx, maker of the Korus immersive and gamified music platform, said Korus will be integrated with the Vipe avatar VTuber marketplace for metaverse-like music applications. Korus has teamed with Vipe, a Virtual Reality Model (VRM) avatar marketplace with a catalog of 261,000 avatars and a community of 80,000 users geared up for the metaverse, VR, […]
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Lara Croft of Tomb Raider has been crowned the most iconic video game character of all time, according to a poll by BAFTA. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has revealed the results of its players’ poll to establish the top characters from video game history. Launched to celebrate the 20th BAFTA Games […]
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Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. FarBridge Inc announced today that it’s partnering with Gearbox Entertainment to make Homeworld: Vast Reaches, the first virtual reality-based entry in the Homeworld series. Vast Reaches reimagines Homeworld’s strategic space battles in […]
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Coachella and Avalanche have partnered to launch Coachella Quests, a new blockchain-based loyalty game to drive engagement and loyalty. It’s another form of gamification, this time powered by Web3 technology. Fans who complete Quests will earn non-fungible token (NFT) Stamps and Points that grant access to exclusive festival benefits and experiences. As fans progress through […]
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Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Niantic announced today that it’s rolling out support for its 8th Wall Metaversal Deployment to the Apple Vision Pro headset. This means that creators who build apps for other mixed reality headsets […]
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Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Voldex, the game studio behind user-generated content-based games in Roblox, Fortnite Creative and Minecraft, announced today that it has acquired Roblox’s Ultimate Football. The multi-million dollar deal (the exact terms of the […]
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Driving back and forth between San Francisco and San Jose is never fun. But I’m glad I made the trek from the Game Developers Conference in SF to the Nvidia GTC 24 conference in SJ so I could moderate an interesting panel about the industrial metaverse. Our panelists included Rev Lebaredian, vice president of Omniverse […]
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Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Machine learning company Gravity Jack announced the Investobot Chatbot for potential investors who are considering investing in Gravity Jack. Spokane, Washington-based Gravity Jack is the longest-running augmented reality (AR) and computer vision […]
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Bitkraft Ventures has raised $275 million for a third fund for early-stage investments in gaming and interactive media companies. Bitkraft Venture Fund 3 succeeds the company’s two prior early stage equity venture funds. Bitkraft Venture Fund 3 will continue to invest in studios, platforms, and technology globally within the gaming and interactive media space at […]
Read MoreAre you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Ankama is relaunching its free-to-play mobile MMORPG, Dofus Touch, with more features that will help expand its international reach. Starting today, independent Roubaix, France-based developer has added a new English language server […]
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Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Grin has unveiled its Activation Benchmarking tool, empowering brands to launch measurable and scalable influencer marketing programs. Sacramento, California-based Grin has built a creator management platform. And today it announced the launch […]
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Alsym Energy has raised $78 million to make batteries that don’t use lithium or other materials that result in supply problems or high costs. Based in Woburn, Massachusetts, Alsym Energy is developing next-generation non-flammable rechargeable batteries for stationary storage, marine and mobility applications. New York-based Thrive Capital and Toronto-based Thomvest also joined in the round, […]
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Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. In the first quarter, deal value for U.S. VC investments hit $36.6 billion across 2,882 deals, down from $51.6 billion across 4,026 deals a year earlier, according to a new report. The […]
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Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Chipotle Mexican Grill announced today a new interactive game, Burrito Vault, that will give away 100,000 Buy-One-Get-One free entrée codes redeemable exclusively on National Burrito Day, April 4. Starting at 12 p.m. […]
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Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Capcom announced today that its recently launched RPG, Dragon’s Dogma 2, has sold 2.5 million copies within two weeks of launch. It also added that cumulative sales of the series, including the […]
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Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Mobile growth acceleration platform Liftoff published its latest Mobile Ad Creative Index recently, in which it revealed its findings about the effectiveness of ads on various mobile platforms — games included. According […]
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Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. The PC and console market grew 2.6% in 2023, but playtime hours fell during the year, according to the second annual report on the market by market researcher Newzoo. The comprehensive report […]
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Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Discord is launching a new Quest on its platform to enable players to earn a feature dubbed Skill Issue as an exclusive item for The Finals game. The newest season of The […]
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Fitness technology company Form is launching its second-generation smart swimming goggles for $250. Form said its Form Smart Swim 2 goggles will offer real-time visual feedback — a kind of augmented reality visualization for sports training. The goggles are now available for purchase worldwide for $250. As the creator and dominant player in the smart […]
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Lil Snack has raised $3.1 million for snackable games on a platform that entices players to come back every day. That’s a pretty hefty funding amount for a company that until recently had just two people: cofounders Eric Berman and Travis Chen. Fortunately for Lil Snack, the company has already gotten a lot of traction […]
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Laton Ventures, a new gaming venture capital fund, is launching today with $35 million in money to invest in game companies. The creation of this Turkiye-based fund during the current weak state of the gaming industry may be a comfort those who are worried about all the layoffs in the industry. This shows that at […]
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Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. A16z opened applications for the latest Speedrun tech and games accelerator class — the third such class for the $75 million accelerator. The A16z Games Speedrun accelerator will also move its location […]
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Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Baldur’s Gate 3 was the figurative belle of the ball at this year’s Game Developers Conference — in the sense that it drew the admiration and approbation of most of the attendees, […]
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Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. 2024 marks the first year when I — someone who has been in the games industry off-and-on for about ten years — attended the Game Developers Conference. I’ve heard the stories and […]
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The #1ReasonToBe panel has had a strong legacy at the Game Developers Conference. It has been dormant for a while, but the session returned at this year’s GDC. This year, it featured six women from different parts of the gaming world. They talked about why they’re game developers and how that came to pass at […]
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Presented by Xsolla VentureBeat was on the floor of the Game Developers Conference this year, and GamesBeat writer Jordan Fragan stopped by the Xsolla booth to speak with Berkley Egenes, Xsolla’s chief marketing and growth officer at Xsolla and Josephine Friday, sales director at Xsolla’s U.S. team. Their focus was a major industry topic: mastering […]
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Skich started out as a discovery and recommendation app for mobile games and it has traction for that. But with new regulations in effect for the app stores, it’s now creating its own alternative app store. The app is made for the age of swiping left or right, and it lets you express your interest […]
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Joost Van Dreunen has made a career out of helping people understand the game industry. In his day job, he teaches gaming strategy at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Van Dreunen has been a big fan of using data to analyze gaming. And we’ve had a lot of it lately. Microsoft completed its […]
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