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Freestyle Chess debuts with $12M in funding for tournament series

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
July 25, 2024
1 min

Chess legend Magnus Carlsen and investor Jan Henric Buettner today revealed their new venture, Freestyle Chess, for which they’ve raised €10 million or about...

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Arkadium launches Multiplayer Chess Online on July 20

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
July 18, 2024
2 min

Arkadium announced today that it is celebrating International Chess Day on July 20 with the launch of a new game: Multiplayer Chess Online. As...

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Monopoly Go transforms back into a board game

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
July 18, 2024
1 min

Scopely and Hasbro are collaborating on another board game-related project. However, this time, they’re doing a reverse Monopoly Go. The mobile game is based...

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Chess.com partners with CrunchLabs on Masters tour and Mark Rober Bot

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
July 11, 2024
2 min

Chess.com announced today that it is partnering with CrunchLabs on the CrunchLabs Masters tour, the next leg of its Champions Chess Tour (CCT), which...

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Magnus Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion.

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Animoca Brands unveils Anichess with Magnus Carlsen and Chess.com

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 16, 2024
2 min

Animoca Brands unveiled Anichess, a free-to-play chess strategy game developed in collaboration with Chess.com and chess maestro Magnus Carlsen. Unlock premium content and VIP...

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Chessarama puzzle games collection launches on PC and Xbox in December

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
November 20, 2023
1 min

Minimol Games announced recently that it’s launching Chessarama, its collection of chess-based and chess-adjacent single-player puzzle games, on PC and Xbox on December 5....

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Amy jo Kim, Massimo Maietti and Howard Shin

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How Scopely made Monopoly Go! a mobile success

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 1, 2023
2 min

Scopely’s Massimo Maietti and Howard Shin joined Game Thinking’s Amy Jo Kim at the GamesBeat Summit to talk about how to reimagine IPs as...

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Monopoly Go! is Scopely's latest adaptation of a Hasbro board game

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Monopoly Go! is Scopely’s latest Hasbro board game adaptation

Posted byby Jordan Fragen
April 12, 2023
1 min

Mobile developer and publisher Scopely and Hasbro have teamed up to launch Monopoly Go! The free-to-play mobile title blends the gameplay of the classic...