Unity acquires SyncSketch productivity and collaboration software
Unity announced today it has acquired SyncSketch, a collaboration and productivity software, for an undisclosed amount. SyncSketch is a collaboration software for visual artists...
Team Hollister chooses three streamers scouted by Bugha for its program
Hollister today announced the members of its esports effort, Team Hollister. The three members joining the gamer training program were scouted by the company’s...
Myty maker Off raises $3.5M to create social avatars for ‘microverses’
Off, which is creating a social avatar “microverse” platform dubbed Myty, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding. The co-leaders of the round were...
Mainframe Industries raises $22.9M for cloud-native games
Mainframe Industries has raised $22.9 million to develop cloud-native games in a financing led by Andreessen Horowitz and a new set of investors. The...
Playstudios acquires rights to develop new Tetris mobile game
Developer Playstudios today announced it’d acquired the rights to make Tetris games for mobile devices via a strategic partnership with The Tetris Company. Las...
Theorycraft keeps hiring to build whimsical apocalyptic fantasy world code-named Loki
Theorycraft Games isn’t revealing that much about its game yet, but the studio wants us to know that it’s been hiring some of the...
Google Play names Pokémon Unite as Best Game of 2021
Google Play today announced the winners of its Best of 2021 awards, a collection of apps and games that it has decreed made a...
Josh Williams interview — How Forte raised $725M for a platform for blockchain gaming
Forte raised $725 million on the expectation that it will provide the building blocks for triple-A game companies to make NFT games. The San...
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One review: Not exactly elementary
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is an odd duck, with one foot in its point-and-click adventure game roots and the other in action-oriented open-world modernity....
RetroBeat: The best retro gaming gifts for 2021’s holidays
It’s my favorite time of the year again, which means I’m ready to recommend some more retro gaming-themed gifts. I’m suggesting several different ideas...