Berkeley Skydeck unveils 18 tech startups from 4 continents
Berkeley SkyDeck, the global accelerator and hub for entrepreneurship, announced today it will be hosting its Batch 14 Demo Day on September 27. Featuring...
Netflix opens mobile game studio in Helsinki
Netflix opened a second mobile game studio in Helsinki, Finland, as the entertainment company pushes further into gaming. Marko Lastikka, a gaming veteran, will...
Napster names ex-Roblox music exec as CEO
Music streaming service Napster has hired Jon Vlassopulos as its next CEO. The company also announced a new funding round. The funding amount wasn’t...
Netflix launches Oxenfree on mobile for its subscribers
Netflix has launched Oxenfree, the critically acclaimed narrative-driven adventure game created by Night School Studio, and it is now available for Netflix members to...
Minecraft Legends will test how resilient fans can be
The appetite for Minecraft seems pretty endless. Microsoft has to keep feeding fans with new content, and the latest thing coming in the portfolio...
Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 drops white paper on building the open metaverse
Neal Stephenson‘s Lamina1 blockchain technology startup dropped a white paper today on building the open metaverse. It’s quite the manifesto. In the document, the...
Why Blizzard veteran Paul Sams took the COO job at Certain Affinity
Blizzard veteran Paul Sams recent became the president and chief operating officer at game studio Certain Affinity after serving a few years as a...
The DeanBeat: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI will autopopulate the 3D imagery of the metaverse
It takes AI kinds to make a virtual world. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said this week during a Q&A at the GTC22 online event...
Hadean raises $30M to create infrastructure for the metaverse
When CCP Games needed someone to help stage a gigantic real-time space battle with 14,000 ships, it turned to Hadean. And that’s one reason...
Crey Games teams with Overwolf’s Tebex to make game creation accessible
Crey Games has teamed up with Overwolf’s Tebex division to build an accessible and non-technical game creation platform. User-generated content platform maker Overwolf recently...