OxeFit home workout startup raises funds from celebrity athletes
OxeFit has raised money from a few more celebrity athletes to support its tech-based home workout equipment. Professional golfer Dustin Johnson and football player...
Team Liquid and Alienware create esports training facility, the Pro Lab
Team Liquid today revealed a new training facility, the Pro Lab. Built in collaboration with Alienware, the Los Angeles facility is a place for...
Sniper Elite 5: shooting Hitler never gets old
The Sniper Elite series fills a void in my life that I, before playing them, didn’t know was there. In these games, you get...
Newzoo: Esports will generate $1.38B in revenue by the end of the year
Newzoo released a new report about the state of esports and livestreaming for the year so far. According to this report, esports will create...
TheMall aims to have 100 floors and 100M square feet in the metaverse
The advantage of virtual malls is that they won’t run out of space. A case in point is TheMall, which will debut later this...
Making the Rebuild Ukraine mobile game in the middle of a war zone
When I was interviewing Pavel Izotov, the maker of the Rebuild Ukraine mobile game, he paused multiple times to wipe tears from his eyes....
American Idol will have NFTs built around contestant digital trading cards
For its 20th season, American Idol is changing things up by launching contestant-based digital trading cards as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). These unique collectibles will...
NVCA: U.S. venture investments cooled down in Q1 after record 2021
Venture capital dealmaking activity and exits slowed in the first quarter after a record-breaking 2021, according to the Q1 2022 PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor. In...
Genies raises $150M at over $1B valuation for metaverse avatars
Metaverse avatar company Genies has raised $150 million at a valuation above $1 billion. Los Angeles-based Genies makes avatars that people can customize to...
How Syntropy wants to deliver the real-time metaverse
If anything will stop the metaverse from being an enjoyable experience, it’s latency. Latency is a measure of the delay that happens during interactions...