AMD CEO: Processor shipments will grow despite chip shortage and improve more in 2022
Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su said the company should be able to grow and gain share despite the overall semiconductor industry shortage, and...
AMD’s Q2 2021 revenue grew 99% to $3.85B on market share gains
Advanced Micro Devices reported its revenues and earnings for the second quarter ended June 30 exceeded expectations, with revenue growing 99% to $3.85 billion....
Discord improves conversations by finally adding threads
Discord conversations can often get into the hundreds of messages, and to simplify that chatter, the company is launching “threads.” And as simple as...
Game Devs of Color Expo remains all-virtual when it kicks off September
The Game Devs of Color Expo will take place as an online-only event from September 23 to September 27. The sixth annual event will...
Why ex-Sony boss Shawn Layden is helping Streamline Media Group go global
Streamline Media Group is a game services company in Malaysia and the U.S., and it’s giving itself a boost in the global gaming market...
Eloelo raises $2.1M for creator-led social gaming platform in India
Eloelo, a startup that is India’s fastest growing creator-led live social gaming platform, has raised $2.1 million in funding. Founded in August 2020 by...
Why Jam City canceled its $1.2B SPAC
Mobile game publisher Jam City decided to call off its plan to go public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) because of “current...
How GungHo launched its bubblegum fighting game Ninjala in the pandemic
I interviewed Kazuki Morishita, the president of GungHo Entertainment, during the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in 2018 in Los Angeles. That seems like ages...
Ex-Blizzard chief Mike Morhaime: To the Blizzard women …, I am extremely sorry that I failed you
Former Blizzard Entertainment president and company cofounder Mike Morhaime issued an apology to the women of Blizzard who have suffered alleged sexual discrimination charged...
The DeanBeat: The learnings of the week in games
The online-only Game Developers Conference had 550 talks scheduled this week, and some of them are still happening today. They reminded me what I love...