How Codashop spurs gamers to make more in-game purchases
Coda Payments recently raised $690 million in funding to enable cross-border payments for games and other digital products, as well as alternative app stores....
Players aren’t abandoning the lives they built around games during the pandemic
It is now common wisdom that video games were able to withstand the pandemic better than many other entertainment sectors. But analysts expected the...
Meta’s Reality Labs loses $2.96B on $695M in revenues in Q1 VR results
Meta’s first-quarter results showed us that Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of the metaverse is very expensive. And its losses are widening even as its VR...
Playmint raises $4M for web 3 MMOs
The siren song of blockchain gaming has lured some more veterans. Playmint, a game studio focused on web 3 massively multiplayer online games, has...
Xbox revenue is growing quickly even before it fully acquires Activision
Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division is set to grow into one of the industry’s massive conglomerates upon the completion of its Activision Blizzard acquisition. But...
Mattel launches He-Man game on Roblox
Mattel launched today a new Masters of the Universe game on Roblox. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: You have the Power is...
Xbox hardware sales hit new March record
Hardware sales should be up year-over-year, but they aren’t. That is not because of a lack of demand, though. In fact, Xbox set a...
Meta partners with Smithsonian on VR moonwalk exhibit
Meta announced that Meta Immersive Learning is partnering with the Smithsonian on a new virtual reality exhibit called “Futures x Meta: Moonwalk.” This exhibit...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 still coming in the fall
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is evidently on track to debut in 2022, according to Activision Blizzard’s first-quarter earnings report today. In its...
March 2022 NPD: Elusive new-gen hardware drags down sales
Gaming fans in the United States spent less on video game products in March, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. Those declines are...