Moonray PBC raises $3.5M for marketplace for NFT game items
Moonray PBC raises $3.5M for marketplace for nonfungible token (NFT) game items as it continues to build its multiplayer action-RPG Moonray. Moonray is a...
CyBall raises $1.8M for NFT-based soccer game
CyBall has raised $1.8 million in seed funding to build a soccer-themed, nonfungible-token (NFT)-based game with a player rewards model. Bitkraft Ventures led the...
Gala Games and C² Ventures launch $100M fund for blockchain games
Gala Games and C² Ventures launched a $100 million fund to accelerate the development of blockchain gaming. The fund represents an alliance between Gala...
Kyu Lee interview — Why Com2Us Holdings pivoted into blockchain games
Kyu Lee, president of Com2Us USA, has been making mobile games like Summoners War for many years. But a few years ago, the whole...
Two Siberian twin brothers in New Zealand want to build the metaverse
That headline for this story sounds very unlikely, but I bet it got your attention. When I met Alexey and Afanasiy Ushnisky in 2015,...
It Takes Two wins Game of the Year
Well f*ck the Oscars indeed. It Takes Two from Josef Fares‘ Hazelight Studios won Game of the Year at The Game Awards. The nominees...
Epic Games shows off Unreal Engine 5 with stunning simulated city in The Matrix Awakens demo
Epic Games showed off the realism of Unreal Engine 5 with The Matrix Awakens demo amid a huge computer-generated city. It looked phenomenal, with...
GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming reunite for a virtual event of thought leadership
Presented by Facebook From the metaverse to micro payments, digital ad ecosystem upheavals and more, big changes keep barreling down the pike for the...
Binance Smart Chain and Animoca Brands launch $200M investment program for blockchain games
Binance Smart Chain and Animoca Brands have partnered to launch a $200 million investment program to accelerate and incubate early crypto gaming startups. The...
Blockchain is only a game changer if players are stakeholders
The recent boom of NFTs has led many to think of blockchain, the underlying technology that supports them, as a solution seeking a problem...