Social gaming platform Rec Room raises $100M at $1.25B valuation
Social gaming platform Rec Room has raised $100 million at a $1.25 billion valuation. The funding is another vote of confidence for user-generated content....
Enjin forms NFT alliance with South Korea’s GameTalkTalk
Enjin has formed an alliance with Ludena Protocol, the publisher of the social gaming platform GameTalkTalk. This is a move which could give a...
Minecraft Earth shuts down, but AR gaming should bounce back
Microsoft recently announced that Minecraft Earth will shut down in June. It stated that it wants to “reallocate” limited resources due to the pandemic...
Warchief unveils Chris Metzen’s fantasy board game world Auroboros
Chris Metzen, the former Blizzard game designer that helped bring us StarCraft and Warcraft, has announced the first game for his tabletop gaming firm,...
Steam Remote Play Together invites launch in time for Balan Wonderworld
Steam is expanding the functionality of its Remote Play Together feature to work more like a Zoom meeting. Now when you launch a Remote...
A Pikmin AR mobile game is coming from Nintendo and the Pokémon Go team
Nintendo and Pokémon Go developer Niantic are aligning for a new partnership. This deal will bring the companies together to produce new augmented reality...
Microsoft confirms plan to phase out ‘Xbox Live’ branding
Microsoft is now calling its Xbox network the “Xbox Network” — clever. And this has led the company to drop the Xbox Live branding...
Discord exploring sale that could be worth more than $10 billion
Discord is going through a sales process now that could result in a purchase of the communications and chat platform for much more than...
Razer goes green with 10-year sustainability plan
Razer has amassed a following of gamers that is more than 100 million strong, but all that gaming uses a lot of energy. So...
The D20 Beat: Smashing Dark Alliance’s Verbeeg Jamboree
One of the first things I saw during my late February demo for Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance was a verbeeg. These are a...