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Roblox bookings grow 35% to $665.5M for Q2 2021

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 16, 2021
4 min

Roblox, the platform for Lego-like user-generated games, reported its bookings for the second quarter ended June 30 were $665.5 million, up 35% from the...

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Raw Fury has a new majority owner in Altor

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 16, 2021
2 min

Raw Fury announced today that the private equity firm Altor has agreed to acquire a majority stake in the Swedish publisher. “It’s very much...

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Road 96 review — A game that tests your border politics

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 16, 2021
6 min

The adventure game Road 96 debuts today as a test of your border politics. It also shows how well a narrative story blends with...

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Activision teases Call of Duty: Vanguard reveal for August 19 inside Warzone

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 16, 2021
2 min

Activision confirmed it will reveal Call of Duty: Vanguard as the latest installment in the shooter series at an event inside Call of Duty:...

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Roblox acquires game chat startup Guilded

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 16, 2021
1 min

Roblox, the maker of user-generated games and other content, said it has acquired the startup Guilded, a maker of platform for connecting gaming communities....

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Unity supports Lual Mayen’s tech center for refugees in Uganda

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 15, 2021
8 min

For 22 years of his life, Lual Mayen lived in a refugee camp in northern Uganda. His parents fled from South Sudan and its...

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Immutable’s Guild of the Guardians NFT game teams up with NRG Esports

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 14, 2021
4 min

Immutable has established an alliance with NRG Esports to create nonfungible token (NFT) collectibles for the upcoming Guild of the Guardian’s mobile RPG. The...

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July NPDs, Grand Theft Auto remasters, and more | GB Decides 209

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 13, 2021
1 min

[iframe src=”https://anchor.fm/gamesbeat-decides/embed/episodes/209-BIG-GTA-REMASTER–NPD–AND-MORE-e15sqrk/a-a5qfks5″ height=”102px” width=”400px” frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no”] People love to buy Zelda games, even when it’s a remaster of one of the less-beloved entries in...