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Bandai Namco’s investment fund invests in 2 tech startups to advance gaming

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 17, 2023
4 min

Bandai Namco Entertainment has made two new investments in gaming technology startups from a new investment fund. The Tokyo-based company said its Bandai Namco...

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Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 unveils early access program for open metaverse ecosystem

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 16, 2023
4 min

Lamina1 announced its first partners into its early access program to accelerate the development of an open metaverse ecosystem. HTC, Dubit, 0.xyz, and Neon...

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Emmett Shear resigns as Twitch CEO after 16 years

Posted byby Jordan Fragen
March 16, 2023
1 min

Emmett Shear, the CEO and co-founder of Twitch, announced he will be resigning from his role at the games-focused livestreaming platform. Instead, Shear will...

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South Korea’s 4:33 Creative Lab launches Delabs Web3 game studio

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 16, 2023
3 min

South Korean game developer 4:33 Creative Lab, which has amassed more than 250 million downloads across its games globally, announced Delabs, a new Web3-focused...

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Mystic Moose will transform static NFTs into real-time 3D models

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 16, 2023
2 min

Game studio Mystic Moose, creator of Planet Mojo and Mojo Melee, is enabling people to convert their non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to real-time 3D models....

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What self-publishing on the Epic Games Store means for gaming

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 16, 2023
14 min

Epic Games announced last week it is bringing self-publishing tools for game developers and publishers to the Epic Games Store. I talked to Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic...

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Cozy MMO Palia has accrued a warm community, says Singularity 6

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
March 16, 2023
2 min

Singularity 6 announced today that its upcoming fantasy MMO, which is designed as a peaceful, welcoming world, has found its audience. Palia now has...

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3D Realms hires Justin Burnham as chief creative officer to level up action games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 16, 2023
3 min

3D Realms has hired Justin Burnham as chief creative officer to level up the company’s indie-oriented action games. Aalborg, Denmark-based 3DRealms is known for...