Zynga’s Q3 2021 bookings of $668M are up 6% from a year ago
Zynga beat analysts’ expectations today, reporting strong bookings and revenues in the third quarter that ended September 30 thanks to the performance of games...
Niantic opens Lightship augmented reality platform to all developers
Niantic today announced it’s opening its Lightship AR platform to all developers. More specifically, it’s offering the Lightship Augmented Reality Developer Kit (ARDK) to...
Annapurna gaming head Nathan Gary announced as its president
Annapurna today announced Nathan Gary, co-founder of Annapurna Interactive, would become the company’s president. Gary will oversee all of the company’s film, TV, game,...
Solana, Lightspeed, and FTX announce web3 gaming investment initiative
Solana Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and FTX have announced a $100 million investment initiative centered around Web 3 gaming. The investments in the initiative...
Core Loop raises $12M to develop sandbox MMO with blockchain
New game studio Core Loop has raised $12 million to develop a sandbox massively multiplayer online game using blockchain technology. The company was started...
Zynga launches FarmVille 3 for Android and iOS
Zynga today announced the launch of FarmVille 3, the most recent iteration of its casual game series. The game is now available on iOS...
Imagination launches its most-advanced ray tracing GPU for mobile
Imagination Technologies unveiled its most-advanced ray-tracing graphics processing unit (GPU) for games and other markets. The new IMG CXT will bring desktop-quality visuals to mobile...
Faraway raises $21M to make social games with player-driven economies
Faraway has raised $21 million to enable blockchain games with player-driven economies. Not bad for a company that started in June. Miami-based Faraway is...
Nintendo sells 8.3M Switch units in six months ended September 30
Nintendo sold 8.3 million Switch hardware units in the past six months ended September 30, the Japanese company reported today. For the six months...
Nintendo has 14 games that sold at least 1 million copies since April
Nintendo’s revenues were down year-over-year, but that was almost exclusively due to a tough comparison to Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ historic launch in 2020....