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Carbonated raises $8.5 million for squad-based mobile shooter

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 16, 2020
3 min

Carbonated has raised $8.5 million for its mobile game studio. It’s building a squad-based shooter that taps artificial intelligence as a core feature. The...

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GDC: Pandemic is clobbering indie game devs and freelancers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 16, 2020
7 min

Small game development studios and freelancers are having a tough time coping with the pandemic, even though the video game industry hasn’t been hit...

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Beat the heat this summer with this deal on a portable air conditioner

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 16, 2020
1 min

The Ultimate Personal A/C Is Eco-Friendly, Portable & Can Drop the Air Temperature by up to 59º F in Just 10 Minutes

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TinyBuild acquires Hello Neighbor devs and will invest $15 million in franchise

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 16, 2020
2 min

Game publisher TinyBuild has acqui-hired the development team behind hit game series Hello Neighbor from Dynamic Pixels and will invest more than $15 million...

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Game investments in Q2 2020: Fewer deals, but bigger value at $7.8 billion

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 16, 2020
4 min

The number of game investments and acquisitions in the second quarter of 2020 declined from the first quarter, but the value of the deals...

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Ex-Valve luminary Anna Sweet joins J.J. Abrams’ game studio as CEO

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
July 15, 2020
1 min

Anna Sweet is the new chief executive officer of Bad Robot Games. Sweet, who is a games-industry veteran, will oversee efforts to build games...

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Why Reggie Fils-Aimé joined Rogue Games as a strategic adviser

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 15, 2020
4 min

Rogue Games is announcing that Reggie Fils-Aimé, the former (and beloved) president of Nintendo of America, is joining the indie game publisher as a...

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ESA CEO: 64% of U.S. adults are gamers, 41% of players are women, older people are playing more

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 15, 2020
3 min

Sixty-four percent of American adults, or 214.4 million people, play video games, according to a report by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), which represents...