The DeanBeat: Interpreting Microsoft’s $68.7B Activision Blizzard deal as a metaverse play
Microsoft‘s $68.7 billion pending acquisition of Activision Blizzard will shake up the game industry to its core. It has upset the status quo and...
Metalenz unveils PolarEyes sensors that are 1,000 times smaller than a human hair
Metalenz unveiled a new kind of sensor dubbed PolarEyes, which uses polarization technology to bring a new kind of sensing to camera-equipped devices. The...
Kippo 2.0 pivots gamer dating app to the metaverse
Kippo opened its dating and social community for gamers in September of 2019. And now it is pivoting to turn its experience into a...
GDC: Game devs focus on unionization, fighting toxicity, and adopting blockchain/metaverse
The Game Developers Conference has released its annual developer survey and found growing support for unionization, the fight against toxicity, and the adoption of...
Rahul Sood’s Irreverent Labs unveils MechaFight Club NFT game
Irreverent Labs aims to change the game industry with some very fancy looking chickens. Born from the mind of Voodoo PC founder Rahul Sood,...
Improbable: Poll says gamers and game devs expect metaverse to arrive in one to five years
American and British consumers believe that the metaverse will likely come to fruition in one to five years. But while gamers and developers are...
Interpret: 56% of gamers who are aware of NFTs favor earning them in games
A study of 1,500 console and PC gamers found that 56% of them are interested in earning nonfungible tokens (NFTs) through gaming, according to...
Autodesk acquires Moxion Cloud to help digital filmmakers
Autodesk has acquired Moxion Cloud to help filmmakers with their “digital dailies” production tools. Autodesk acquired the New Zealand-based developer of a cloud-based platform...
Carry1st raises $20M from A16z and Google for mobile games in Africa
Carry1st has raised $20 million in funding from marquee investors for its mobile game publishing platform targeted at unlocking demand in the African market....
Varjo enables high-end VR/XR cloud streaming for its Varjo Reality Cloud
Varjo has added high-end VR/XR cloud streaming to its Varjo Reality Cloud platform, which enables remote people to see what someone is looking at...