Sayollo partners with Speechly to bring voice recognition to gComm
In-game sales and advertising is a large, tricky business. No one appreciates being pulled out of a game to interact with ads. Even when...
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,...
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...
Whaleapp hits 40M mobile game downloads thanks to Blitz: Rise of Heroes
Whaleapp has hit 40 million mobile game downloads thanks to Blitz: Rise of Heroes, the first midcore title that the casual game maker has...
The Game Awards 2021 hits a record 85M livestream views
The Game Awards 2021 hit a new record of 85 million livestream views for its December 9 broadcast of awards and game announcements. The...
Rec Room social gaming platform raises $145M at $3.5B valuation
Social gaming platform Rec Room has raised $145 million at a $3.5 billion valuation. The funding round comes just nine months after the company...
How Rollic sees the future of ‘TikTokable’ hypercasual games
Rollic has had a billion downloads for its hypercasual games — those that you can play in a minute or less. And seven of...
Splinter Cell remake, NFTs, and GOTY voting | GB Decides 227
[iframe src=”https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/16uQAxXhR6tr8B2a0KAh4u?utm_source=generator” width=”100%” height=”232″ frameBorder=”0″ allowfullscreen=”” allow=”autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture”] GamesBeat Decides tackles the big issues this week. That includes NPD sales for...
Tencent acquires Back 4 Blood and Left 4 Dead dev Turtle Rock Studios
Tencent today announced it has acquired Slamfire Inc., the parent company of game developer Turtle Rock Studios. Turtle Rock is best known as the...