FaZe Clan will go public in a $1B SPAC as esports content blossoms
FaZe Clan said it will go public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) at a $1 billion valuation to grow its combination of...
Hasbro launches Power Rangers NFT collection on Wax blockchain
Hasbro is wading into the nonfungible tokens (NFT) collectible market with the upcoming Power Rangers on the WAX blockchain. The big toy and entertainment...
Notorious Studios breaks free from World of Warcraft to build its own worlds
Chris Kaleiki worked on World of Warcraft at Blizzard, where he spent years designing and balancing character classes. He even developed the monk for the...
Nvidia’s GTC will draw 200K researchers for online event including metaverse session
The metaverse may be the stuff of science fiction, but it’s going to make an appearance at a pretty serious tech event: Nvidia’s annual...
Age of Empires IV review impressions — Real-time strategy comes back to the mainstream
Real-time strategy is back, baby. OK, it never really went away. But it is back for mainstream gamers, who haven’t seen a major release...
Why Gigi Levy Weiss is eying NFT gaming with his $450M NFX fund
Gigi Levy Weiss has been a fixture in Israeli investments in tech companies for years. He has also invested in game companies such as...
Intel CTO Greg Lavender interview — Why chip maker is spending on both manufacturing and software
Intel has been on a spending spree ever since Pat Gelsinger returned to the company as CEO earlier this year. He pledged to spend...
Why Chris Akhavan left EA to join blockchain gaming platform Forte
Yesterday, I wrote about my rule of game journalism: follow the money. That was all about the flow of money into blockchain games. And...
Advance Wars delay, PS5 sales, and Cole Cassidy | GB Decides 219
[iframe src=”https://anchor.fm/gamesbeat-decides/embed/episodes/219-COLE-CASSIDY-AND-THE-FUMPY-DUMP-e1965a9″ height=”102px” width=”100%” frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no”] GamesBeat Decides must go on. That’s true even if Advance Wars gets delayed and destroys GamesBeat editor Jeff...
The DeanBeat: Among the believers of the NFT gaming revolution
I made it out to a party for the first time in a while in San Francisco. Friends of Gabby Dizon, founder of Yield...