Nintendo Switch Online’s new tier costs an absurd $50 a year
Last month, Nintendo announced that it would make Nintendo 64 and Genesis games available in a new tier of its Nintendo Switch Online Service....
Laguna Games raises $5M to launch Crypto Unicorns with egg NFTs
Laguna Games announced today a $5 million seed round to make its blockchain-based game, Crypto Unicorns. The developer is planning to seed the marketplace with...
GamesBeat Summit Next: Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, Niantic’s John Hanke, Xbox’s Sarah Bond
Sometimes you need people to inspire you to greater heights and to believe that some amazing technology is just around the corner. That’s what...
Order of Meta raises $1.5M for mobile shooter game
Helsinki-based Order of Meta has raised $1.5 million from Play Ventures and others for a mobile shooter game. The company was started in the...
Metaverse studio Melon announces its first original game in Roblox
Roblox-centric developer Melon today announced it was releasing its first original game within the metaverse. It’s called Jump Kingdoms. In Jump Kingdoms, gamers play...
Roblox shows new bits of the metaverse to its developers
Roblox doesn’t want to create the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One....
Ironsource will buy mobile ad and app monetization firm Tapjoy for $400M
IronSource said it plans to acquire mobile advertising and app monetization company Tapjoy for $400 million. The deal is part of an ongoing consolidation...
Supercell-backed Papukaya creates mobile games for non-gamers
With backing from Supercell, Papukaya is creating mobile games targeted at people who don’t consider themselves to be gamers. And in doing so, Papukaya...
New York Video Game Awards to be held in person in 2022
The New York Videogame Critics Circle today announced that the 2022 NY Game Awards will be an in-person event. The ceremony is on February...
Lucid Sight raises $2.58M to launch cloud-hosted multiplayer gaming service
Lucid Sight has raised $2.58 million to launch its cloud-hosting multiplayer gaming service called Colyseus Arena. The Los Angeles-based company recently acquired Colyseus, the...