The Gayming Awards 2024 airs on June 25, honors icons and rising stars
The Gayming Awards announced today that it will air its 2024 event on June 25 as part of IGN’s Summer of Gaming event. The...
Empower Change launches nonprofit for grieving families
Empower Change is launching as a new tech-enabled nonprofit aimed at helping grieving families. It’s a startup that was born out of tragedy. Roderick...
How Scopely aimed to be a hit company, rather than just a hit game maker | co-CEOs fireside chat
Walter Driver and Javier Ferreira, co-CEOs of Scopely, spoke with me in a fireside chat at GamesBeat Summit 2024 about how they feel the...
Genies nabs former Netflix Games creative director to run games
Genies, a maker of social avatars, has hired former Netflix Games creative director Andrew Chambers the head of its games studio. Genies has been...
Play AI raises $4.3M to use AI for ‘hyper-personalized gaming’
Play AI has raised $4.3 million in seed funding round to build the middleware for AI models and agents in gaming. The platform, which...
Amazon Games to publish Maverick’s new story-driven driving title
Amazon Games has signed a new agreement with Maverick Games to publish the studio’s debut triple-A title. The new multi-platform, open-world, narrative-driven driving game...
Kinetix and Overdare put generative AI in gamers’ hands
Kinetix, the generative AI startup creating user-generated emotes (UGE) for video games, has teamed up with Overdare to put generative AI in the hands...
Activision wins $14.4M judgment against Call of Duty cheat vendor
A federal court awarded a $14.4 million judgment to Activision Publishing in its lawsuit against EngineOwning UG, Garnatz Enterprise Ltd, and 11 individuals. U.S....
Gamecity Hamburg funds five digital game prototypes
Gamecity Hamburg announced it is supporting five game projects in its 2024 funding round with up to 80,000 euros ($86,600) in non-repayable funds. As...
Supervillain Labs raises funds from Aptos Labs and Neowiz’s Intella X
Supervillain Labs has raised new funding from Aptos Labs and Neowiz’s Intella X. Both Aptos Labs and Neowiz’s Intella X, a Web3 gaming initiative,...