Zynga reports Q4 bookings of $727M, up 4%
Zynga reported fourth-quarter earnings that showed it continues to grow its mobile social game business. The results beat the company’s guidance for bookings and...
Bunch 2.0 pivots to a social gaming metaverse
Bunch has pivoted from a social layer for games to a more expansive metaverse that aims to keep players coming back for longer times...
Nvidia and Arm call off $80B merger and Arm CEO resigns
Nvidia and Arm are calling off their $80 billion merger, according to announcements from the companies tonight. Arm CEO Simon Segars has resigned. The...
How Stern Pinball is connecting pinball machines for the future
Stern Pinball is one of the biggest believers in pinball, and it has been making the machines for decades. When I went to the...
Meta updates avatars for cross-platform and inclusivity
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is serious about the metaverse and you can see that in its more expressive cross-platform avatars. The...
Improbable is attacking the metaverse’s networking problem
Herman Narula, CEO of Improbable, is trying to solve the networking problem of the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected,...
Together Labs launches MetaJuice for NFT games and apps
Together Labs launched MetaJuice, a new division dedicated to powering blockchain tech for games and apps. MetaJuice aims to unlock blockchain-driven markets that allow...
Epic Games’ Kim Libreri on how real the metaverse can look
If there is a small circle of people to ask how realistic we can get when we try to make a world seem flawlessly...
The industrial metaverse: Where simulation and reality meet
No other topic took 2021 by storm quite like the metaverse. As we all experienced yet another year of living through a pandemic, the...
GamesBeat Summit: Why “gametainment” and brand is the future of game marketing
What do ice cream and games have in common? Not enough. In the consumer packaged goods world, brand is life. But in the game...