Hiro Capital leads $15 million investments in Snowprint, Double Loop, and Happy Volcano
Hiro Capital said it has led investments totaling $15 million in Snowprint Studios, Double Loop Games, and Happy Volcano Games. That’s a pretty big...
Playtika reports Q4 revenue of $573.5 million in first public quarterly report
Playtika reported strong quarterly growth in earnings and revenue for the fourth quarter ended December 31, the first quarterly period as a public company...
The magic behind the metaverse: In conversation with Polystream and 4J Studios
Presented by Polystream Exploring emerging themes from VentureBeat’s Into The Metaverse event, Bruce Grove, CEO and co-founder of Polystream, and Chris Van Der Kuyl,...
Amazon’s New World delayed to August 31
Amazon announced today that its online role-playing game New World is going to miss its spring release window, instead settling on an August 31...
Scopely unveils nearly unwinnable Star Trek: Kobayashi Maru web game
Scopely has launched its Star Trek: Kobayashi Maru web game as a kind of free promo for Star Trek: Fleet Command on mobile. If...
Zynga beats Q4 2020 expectations with bookings of $699 million, up 61%
Zynga beat analysts’ expectations today, reporting its highest-ever bookings and revenues in the fourth quarter ended December 31 thanks to the strong performance of...
How Jackbox Games adapted to a tumultuous 2020
When California’s first lockdown arrived in March, my friends and family relied on a few multiplayer games to stay in touch. One series we...
Detecting 10 times more bots and stopping fraud with behavioral biometrics
Bots and fraud occur in every app, and in every vertical, said Alon Dayan, Founder and CEO, Unbotify. “In games online, this is a...
Russian mobile game publisher Nexters will go public via a SPAC at $1.9 billion value
Mobile game developer and publisher Nexters Global announced it will go public, raising money at a $1.9 billion enterprise value via a special purpose acquisition...
What will it take to make good on the promise of the metaverse?
The “How to Build the Metaverse” panel during GamesBeat’s two-day all-digital metaverse event brought together speakers who are tackling the challenges in bringing the...