Games publisher Voodoo acquires BeReal social network for $537M
Voodoo, the hypercasual mobile games publisher behind Helix Jump and Crowd City, among others, announced today that it has acquired BeReal for €500 million,...
Polygon unlocks community grants worth $640 million for blockchain builders
Blockchain tech and gaming company Polygon announced that its community has voted to unlock the equivalent of $640 million worth of tokens for the...
Astrocade raises $12M for AI-based social gaming platform
Astrocade AI announced a $12 million seed funding round for its AI-based social gaming platform for casual games. The money came from AME Cloud...
Sequence will offer Aethir decentralized GPUs on demand for Web3 games
Sequence announced today that it will offer its customers access to Aethir, a decentralized graphics processing unit (GPU)-as-a-Service (GaaS) provider. The move is part...
South of Midnight gets an extended gameplay reveal at Xbox Showcase
From the creators of Contrast and We Happy Few, South of Midnight is going to be a unique and lively third-person action-adventure game set...
Street Fighter VI announces new, surprising characters
Capcom revealed its second season of DLC fighters for Street Fighter VI during today’s Summer Game Fest. Season 2 will add Terry and Mai...
Civilization VII announced at Summer Game Fest
2K is bringing back its beloved strategy series for a new entry, as it announced Civilization VII during today’s Summer Game Fest stream. The...
Rivian launches 2nd gen R1 electric vehicles using Unreal Engine for dashboard
Rivian is using the Epic Games’ Unreal Engine for making games to power the new display user interface in its latest R1 electric vehicles...
GamesBeat Summit: Hollywood and gaming join after a long courtship
Game-to-show/film adaptations have officially become A Thing. They’re no longer relegated to little-acknowledged movies or adaptations so loose they verge on spiritual-at-best. Hollywood has...
South Korea’s NDUS Interactive raises $7.5M for third-person shooter game Xociety
NDUS Interactive, a South Korean game studio making a third-person shooter game Xociety, has raised $7.5 million in funding. The pre-Series A funding round...
