Sky Mavis raises $152M at nearly $3B valuation for Axie Infinity play-to-earn NFT game
Sky Mavis has raised $152 million at a nearly $3 billion valuation to help grow its Axie Infinity “play-to-earn” game that monetized via nonfungible...
Fans rebel after Ubisoft announces Ghost Recon Frontline
Ubisoft today revealed its latest Tom Clancy project, Ghost Recon Frontline. It’s a free-to-play first-person shooter, and its flagship “mode” is a battle royale...
Virtually every Kingdom Hearts game is heading to Switch
Following Sora’s reveal as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s last fighter, Nintendo announced that just about every Kingdom Hearts game is on the way to...
Sora is Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s last DLC fighter
Nintendo revealed Super Smash Bros. Ultimate‘s final DLC character today. It’s Sora from Kingdom Hearts. He’ll be available on October 18. Super Smash Bros....
Niantic acquires Hoss to improve the Lightship developer experience
Niantic today announced that it acquired developer experience leader Hoss and that the Hoss team will help augment the Lightship ARDK platform. Hoss is...
Unity unveils Metacast real-time 3D platform for sports broadcasts
Unity sports exec Peter Moore unveiled Unity Metacast, a new technology for capturing and analyzing sports moves in real time. In an interview with...
Gaming companies raised a record $71B in 844 deals so far this year
Game industries deals surpassed an unparalleled $71 billion in the first nine months of 2021, according to a report by investment bank Drake Star...
Epic Games to launch achievements and new XR project
Epic Games today announced it’s adding achievements to some of the games in the Epic Games Store, starting next week. It’s also announced that...
Flavourworks pioneers a new kind of immersive touch mobile game
Flavourworks is about to give the game industry a touch of innovation with its next live-action cinematic mobile game using a patented touch video...
Gilles Langourieux interview — How Virtuos grew with gaming and deals with labor shortages and crunch
Virtuos recently raised $150 million from private equity firm Baring Private Equity Asia, a new kind of investor coming into the growing game industry....