Rethinking the ban on selling in-game assets
Should buying in-game assets from another player be banned as cheating? The answer depends on who you ask. Game publishers would probably argue that...
The DeanBeat: Blockchain gaming companies raised $476M in the first half of 2021
We knew that gaming grew during the pandemic, and game investments and acquisitions have seen a boom as well. If you combine games with...
Planetarium nabs $2.6M for decentralized RPG Nine Chronicles
Planetarium said its decentralized role-playing game Nine Chronicles, which uses nonfungible tokens (NFTs) so players can own and make their game assets, has raised $2.6 million....
Big Time Studios is raising $21M to bring NFTs to game economies
Big Time Studios is going big this week with a funding round of $21 million to bring nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to the biggest game...
Immutable X debuts as marketplace platform for NFT games
Immutable X has launched today as a platform for games with nonfungible tokens (NFTs). That means that those games will have uniquely identifiable digital...
Ubisoft and Belgian Pro League partner for One Shot League blockchain fantasy soccer
Ubisoft and the Belgian Pro League have partnered to develop One Shot League, a new blockchain-driven fantasy soccer game. Ubisoft’s Strategic Innovation Lab and...
Lucid Sight acquires Colyseus open-source multiplayer game engine
Lucid Sight, a maker of blockchain games, has acquired the open-source multiplayer engine Colyseus for an undisclosed price. Colyseus projects have seen millions of...
Polyient Games will invest in early-stage startups making blockchain game infrastructure
Blockchain gaming has to walk before it runs. That’s why Polyient Games, a recent spinoff of incubator Polyient Labs, is starting to invest in...
MLB Champions mobile game gets big 2.0 update
Lucid Sight has launched a big 2.0 update for its MLB Champions mobile game, which takes a big swing at using blockchain technology to...
Zynga cofounder builds Gala network for decentralized gaming
Blockchain Game Partners is building a blockchain-based infrastructure dubbed Gala to enable games where players own their own content and platforms don’t fleece developers...