Playstudios will go public via SPAC at $1.1 billion valuation
Playstudios will be the next social casino game company to go public. In this deal, the company will raise money via a special purpose...
Google stops Stadia game development and closes its studios
Just a bit over a year after launching its Stadia platform, Google is starting to scale back its gaming ventures. The company is closing...
GamesBeat Decides: The best (and worst) Hitman trilogy levels
Since Hitman 3‘s release last month, Jeff Grubb and I have been having a great time murdering our way through IO Interactive’s world-spanning levels....
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...
Nintendo Switch closes in on 80 million consoles sold mark
Nintendo released its third quarter financial results today, a period that ended in December, and revealed that it has sold 79.87 million Switch consoles....
Video game companies band together to help a children’s hospital
Game companies compete with each other furiously, so it’s sometimes news to see them come together. That’s the mission behind Gamers for CHOC, a...
Eve Online experienced its own GameStop-like short squeeze
All the excitement around GameStop’s stock has bled into GamesBeat’s discussions around the metaverse. And it turns out that stock market manipulation isn’t exclusive to...
How sound technologies can bring emotion to the metaverse
Many of us first think about the visual component of the metaverse, but sound will have just as an important part to play in...
The ethics of the metaverse
Richard Bartle hopes the metaverse will be a place where we can be our best selves, and where the operators of the virtual universe...
ESA CEO: Why diversity matters for the metaverse
When it comes to diversity, the metaverse will represent a huge opportunity to amplify diverse voices and creators. That’s the view of Stanley Pierre-Louis,...