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10 years in gaming: Sportfive shares lessons from its first decade in interactive media

Posted byby Alexander Lee
April 17, 2026
3 min

As brands and marketers flowed into gaming over the past decade, Sportfive experienced the rise in advertising activity firsthand. Based in Hamburg, Germany, the...

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Entertainment

Call of Duty movie’s 2028 release date announced

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
April 16, 2026
1 min

Activision and Paramount Skydance today confirmed the release date for the upcoming Call of Duty film adaptation: June 30, 2028. Paramount revealed the release...

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Gameplay

Metro 2039 introduces a new protagonist to the series

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
April 16, 2026
1 min

4A Games and Deep Silver today held their Xbox first look, offering the first major details about the next game in the Metro series....

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Gameplay

How Tencent is using AI to make fighting games more fluid | GDC interview

Posted byby Alexander Lee
April 16, 2026
2 min

Tencent is leveraging AI tools to enhance the realism of its fighting games. Tencent Games studio MoreFun studios is using generative AI to fine-tune...

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Gameplay

DressX and Amazon announce virtual fashion partnership | exclusive

Posted byby Alexander Lee
April 16, 2026
2 min

Virtual fashion is coming to the Amazon marketplace. Today, April 16, avatar fashion company DressX announced a partnership with Amazon intended to bridge the...

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Business

ThinkingAI and MiniMax partner on Agentic Engine for real-time operations

Posted byby GamesBeat Studio
April 16, 2026
2 min

ThinkingAI, formerly ThinkingData, has partnered with AI foundation model company MiniMax to launch Agentic Engine, a new operational platform designed to turn data into...

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Development

Skillz vs Papaya bots trial has its first day in court

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
April 15, 2026
1 min

Skillz Platform’s lawsuit against Papaya Gaming has officially begun, several months after a federal judge ordered it to go forward. Yesterday was the first...

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Gaming Culture

Who owns brainrot? Fortnite skin launch renews creator community debate over AI-generated IP

Posted byby Alexander Lee
April 15, 2026
3 min

Fortnite’s officially licensed Italian brainrot skin launch has sparked pushback from creators concerned over IP ownership on the platform. On April 1, Fortnite released...

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Technology

How Zenni Optical leveraged mobile gaming to achieve 30-percent sales growth in February | exclusive

Posted byby Alexander Lee
April 15, 2026
2 min

Zenni Optical is leaning into AI and mobile inventory to transform in-game advertising from a brand lift play into a precision growth channel. Zenni...

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Q1 2026 hit big VC records, but top 5 AI deals were most of the fundings | Pitchbook/NVCA

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 14, 2026
10 min

By any measure, the first quarter of 2026 was a record setter for venture capital fundings, according to a final report by Pitchbook and...

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