Roblox sues YouTuber Ruben Sim for $1.65M for ‘terrorist threats’
The Roblox Corporation has filed a lawsuit in California against YouTuber Benjamin Simon for making terrorist threats against the studio and its users. Roblox...
Talewind raises $3.41M for Breezy Bay game and to partner with game devs
Talewind has raised $3.41 million to fund its Breezy Bay casual game and partner with Roblox game developers. The deal comes on the heels...
MetaMundo raises $2.7M to launch 3D NFT marketplace
MetaMundo has announced it has raised over $2.7 million in seed funding to build a marketplace for 3D nonfungible tokens (NFTs). Animoca Brands, an...
Play Ventures launches Play Future Fund with $75M in commitments
Play Ventures revealed today its new fund for blockchain gaming investments: The Play Future Fund. The Fund has made three commitments already, and is...
Myty maker Off raises $3.5M to create social avatars for ‘microverses’
Off, which is creating a social avatar “microverse” platform dubbed Myty, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding. The co-leaders of the round were...
Company of Heroes 3 multiplayer pre-alpha demo will debut on Steam
Sega and Relic Entertainment said they’re launching a demo for Company of Heroes 3 multiplayer on Steam starting on Tuesday. The high-profile World War...
The DeanBeat: Thanks for being part of the GamesBeat community
Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for reading GamesBeat and VentureBeat. We are grateful to our community for reading our stories, giving us news tips, commenting...
Melon and NFL team up and launch Roblox metaverse experience
Melon announced today that it is launching a new experience in Roblox in partnership with the NFL. Players will be able to purchase their...
Niantic raises $300M at $9B valuation as it guns for the real-world metaverse
Pokémon Go maker Niantic has raised $30o million from investor Coatue at a $9 billion valuation as it aims to build the real-world metaverse....
The DeanBeat: Building the metaverse for free
Jensen Huang received the chip industry’s highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce award, last night in an event with his peers. And while the...