Clockwork Labs raises $22M for community sandbox MMORPG BitCraft
Clockwork Labs has raised $22 million so that it can develop BitCraft, which is its community sandbox massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Andreessen Horowitz...
Genvid interview: The emerging genre of massive interactive live events (MILEs)
Genvid Technologies used its cloud technology to pioneer the massive interactive live events (MILEs) as a new genre in games. It’s a novel concept...
Sknups raises $3.5M for blockchain game collectibles and unveils Dolce & Gabbana partnership
Digital fashion collectibles platform Sknups has raised $3.5 million in funding and announced a worldwide gaming partnership with fashion house Dolce & Gabbana. London-based...
Earth From Another Sun raises $4.5M for sandbox space conquest game
Earth From Another Sun (EFAS) has raised $4.5 million in funding to create its sandbox space conquest game. It’s one of many blockchain games...
Animoca Brands acquires most of educational user-generated content firm TinyTap for $38.9M
Animoca Brands has acquired TinyTap, the platform for user-generated educational content. Animoca paid $38.875 million for 80.45% of the issued capital of TinyTap Ltd....
Interactive Advertising Bureau updates guidelines for measuring 3D ads for the metaverse
This week, the Interactive Advertising Bureau relaunched some guidelines for measuring the effectiveness of in-game advertisements and eventually ads in the metaverse. It was...
Saga raises $3.6M to make metaverse middleware
Saga has raised $3.6 million to make the middleware of the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels...
McKinsey & Co.: Metaverse could reach $5 trillion in value by 2030
McKinsey & Co.’s new research shows the metaverse could grow up to $5 trillion in value by 2030. That illustrates the impact the metaverse...
Games for Change unveils social impact G4C Award finalists
Games for Change, the nonprofit focused on the power of games as drivers of social impact, has announced the finalists for its annual G4C...
Hypemasters raises $3.25M to make World War Armies mobile RTS game
Mobile game developer Hypemasters has raised $3.25 million to make its mobile real-time strategy game World War Armies. GEM Capital and The Games Fund...