How Scopely made Monopoly Go! a mobile success
Scopely’s Massimo Maietti and Howard Shin joined Game Thinking’s Amy Jo Kim at the GamesBeat Summit to talk about how to reimagine IPs as...
Atlas: Earth launches Atlas: Racer as mini-game for virtual real estate title
In a new twist for a virtual real estate app, Atlas: Earth has released Atlas: Racer, its first in-app mini-game aimed at drawing attention...
Keep Web3 separated from the actual game
GamesBeat’s own Dean Takahashi and Consortium9’s Brooks Brown took a few minutes to talk about Web3 gaming at the GamesBeat Summit. Brown is of...
Games for Change Festival unveils 2023 award finalists
Games for Change, the nonprofit focused on social impact games, unveiled today the finalists for its 2023 Games for Change Awards. For the first...
CD Projekt Red veterans found new studio Blank
Several veteran game developers who previously worked at CD Projekt Red revealed this week that they’d founded a new studio, called Blank. The co-founders...
Proxima raises $1.6M and announces Lumari as 1st game
Proxima is coming out of stealth today as a new game studio with $1.6 million in funding. It also unveiled its first game, Lumari,...
Is Web3 worth the wait?
Blockchain technology offers novel approaches to game creation, distribution and monetization, with non-fungible tokens (NFTs) offered as a promise to players that they, too,...
Facebook Gaming survey finds that casual gamers are crucial to the evolution of the metaverse
Gamers are bombarded with press about the metaverse, from think pieces to product announcements, but what do they really make of it all? Facebook...
East meets west: How Level Infinite and TiMi Studio Group are taking Tencent global
Level Infinite, the western arm of global game giant Tencent, and its TiMi Studio Group, founded in 2008, are making an effort to deliver...
Mike Pondsmith on Cyberpunk’s journey from paper to prominence
If there’s one lesson Mike Pondsmith can teach, it’s that creators need to bring authenticity to everything. The Cyberpunk creator and Incredible Dream’s Jane...