Social gaming platform Rec Room raises $100M at $1.25B valuation
Social gaming platform Rec Room has raised $100 million at a $1.25 billion valuation. The funding is another vote of confidence for user-generated content....
Roblox’s 8th Bloxy Awards will feature musical performance by Royal Blood
Roblox is making a big splash out of its eight annual Bloxy Awards with a halftime musical performance by the British rock duo Royal...
Game Finance Market shows strength of U.K. game industry
A total of 65 investors with £589 million, or $816 million, to invest in game startups are showing up this week at the Game...
How Improbable is banking on Midwinter’s Scavengers to prove its game platform
Scavengers aims to be a unique strategic survival battleground game where teams of players fight other teams and also fight off dangerous monsters at...
Overwolf raises $52.5M to expand third-party modding platform
Overwolf raised $52.5 million to expand its modding platform for game developers and publishers. The Tel Aviv-based company is also launching its CurseForge Core...
Making friends in the metaverse
Presented by Together Labs “We can’t put the genie back in the bottle,” I recently said at the GamesBeat Summit in January 2021 during...
The DeanBeat: How Roblox overshadowed Microsoft’s Bethesda event this week
The big events came in a pair this week as Microsoft completed its $7.5 billion acquisition of Bethesda. And user-generating game platform Roblox went...
Roblox goes public at $41.9 billion valuation in direct listing
Roblox, the platform for Lego-like user-generated games, went public today in a direct listing, where employees and investors finally get a chance to sell...
The DeanBeat: Roblox public offering is a vote about the metaverse
Roblox, the platform for user-generated games, will go public through a direct listing of its shares on March 10. I see its pending success...
Hilmar Veigar Pétursson: Remembering 20 years of Eve Online
Hilmar Veigar Pétursson has worked at Eve Online maker CCP Games, Iceland’s biggest game studio, for 20 years, and he has been CEO since 2004. For...