Mystic Moose raises $5M to build game metaverse Planet Mojo
Mystic Moose, a newly minted indie studio, today announced it’d raised $5 million towards its latest project, a gaming metaverse called Planet Mojo. The...
Jam City unveils blockchain division and first NFT game Champions: Ascension
Mobile game maker Jam City is taking the plunge into nonfungible token (NFT) games with the launch of a new blockchain division and its...
Steam November 2021 top 20 new releases
Valve’s monthly list of the top 20 new releases on Steam is out covering the November releases. Halo Infinite, Battlefield 2042, and Forza Horizon...
Vempire will debut Roman era game in The Sandbox
Vempire DDAO has announced it is developing Hack and Slash, a blockchain-based combat game set in ancient Rome within The Sandbox virtual world platform....
Embracer Group buys Perfect World Entertainment for $125M
Embracer Group has agreed to buy Perfect World Entertainment from China’s Perfect World for $125 million in cash and stock. Under the deal, Embracer...
Gaming’s best existential threat of the year: NFTs
Video games are under no real threat of collapsing. While the console bubble did burst in the early 1980s in the United States once,...
Dynasty Studios raises $5M to take traditional games into blockchain
Dynasty Studios has raised $5 million to build blockchain games that appeal to mainstream gamers. It’s a case of another mainstream game studio moving...
IGDA report tackles the essentials of inclusive game design and development
This article is part of a Gaming Insights series paid for by Facebook. “Games are immersive storytelling media, and because of that, they’re amazing...
Ubisoft partners with Aleph.im on blockchain games
Aleph.im has partnered with Ubisoft to bring playable nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to triple-A games such as Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Aleph.im is a...
Zynga teams with Forte to take blockchain games to the mainstream
Social gaming firm Zynga and blockchain infrastructure startup Forte have teamed up to create blockchain games based on Zynga’s gaming brands. The idea is...