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Epic Games seeking to sell stake for $750 million at $17 billion valuation

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 15, 2020
2 min

Fortnite maker Epic Games is raising $750 million, according to two sources who spoke to GamesBeat. Bloomberg reported the news first, but we have...

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Stack Up and Wargaming have teamed up to help veterans.

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Stack Up and Wargaming add a suicide prevention button to World of Warships

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 15, 2020
2 min

Wargaming has teamed up with veterans nonprofit Stack Up to bring suicide prevention and mental health awareness into World of Warships, an online team...

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The original BloodRayne debuted in 2002.

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BloodRayne to return from the dead as Ziggurat acquires rights

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 15, 2020
2 min

Ziggurat Interactive has purchased the sexy vampire BloodRayne video game franchise and other properties from Majesco in a bid to bring some retro PC...

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Niantic recasts Pokémon Go Fest 2020 as a virtual community rebuilding event

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 15, 2020
6 min

Niantic‘s mission is to bring people together in a gaming community, and the company sees its Pokémon Go Fest 2020 as more critical than...

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This image is from the first cloud-native game being made by Mainframe Industries.

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Why Andreessen Horowitz is investing in games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 14, 2020
17 min

Andreessen Horowitz is one of Silicon Valley’s biggest venture capital firms, investing in both early-stage startups and established growth companies. Its investments run the...