Twitter reports gaming delivered 2.4B tweets in 2021
Twitter today released details on how gaming effected tweet traffic in 2021. According to the data, it was one of the biggest years for...
StageZero raises $1.8M to combine mobile game rewards and AI training data
StageZero has raised $1.8 million in funding to give gamers rewards for participating in in-app tasks that generate valuable AI training data. The funding...
Take-Two buys Zynga for $12.7B enterprise value
Take-Two, the maker of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto games, is buying mobile social game publisher Zynga for an enterprise value of $12.7 billion....
Niko Partners: Big Middle East countries will hit 85.8M players/$3.1B in revenues by 2025
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Egypt together will have 85.8 million gamers generating $3.1 billion in games revenue by 2025, according to market...
Streamers are making millions for charity — and they’re just getting started
YouTubers running charity streams on Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook Gaming have become a staple of the medium. It says something about the streaming community...
Rainbow Six: Extraction preview: It ain’t Siege, but it’s all right
Rainbow Six: Extraction is Ubisoft’s new multiplayer entry in the Rainbow Six series, a PvE title that is supposed to be sympatico with Siege....
AMD CEO Lisa Su talks cheaper GPUs, Intel competition, 3D chiplets, and Zen 4
Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su is an old pro at showing off new products that can kick its competition’s butt. She did more...
The DeanBeat: The best of CES 2022 as seen from afar
Oh, my butt is sore from sitting so much. That was one of the hazards of CES 2022, which I covered for a second...
Atari CEO Wade Rosen interview — Returning to classic video game roots
Atari has come back from the dead more than once. Under previous CEO Fred Chesnais, it moved into mobile games and struck gold with...
Overwolf invests in Syn City, explores UGC in mafia metaverse
Overwolf, the user-generated content creation and distribution platform, announced today it’s investing in Syn City. The “mafia metaverse” game has raised over $8 million...