IMVU: Making the coin of the realm for the metaverse
IMVU has been a relatively quiet and unnoticed company in the online gaming and social media worlds. But the company did something recently that...
PlayStation and Nintendo spent 2020 vying for TV game ad crown
PlayStation and Nintendo are consistently two of the biggest gaming-industry spenders on TV advertising, and as such are often the gaming brands with the...
Black Eyed Peas and Zynga send holiday social-distancing message for #PlayApartTogether campaign
Zynga has teamed up with the Black Eyed Peas musical group to help keep us safe during the holidays. As the pandemic hit earlier...
How Riot Games is gunning for its second big esport with Valorant
Riot Games spent a decade building League of Legends into a huge esports phenomenon. And with the first-person shooter game Valorant, the company hopes...
Hexagram hires Jamil Moledina as CEO for interactive storytelling platform
Hexagram, a maker of immersive experiences that go beyond ordinary video games, has named industry veteran Jamil Moledina as its CEO. Los Angeles-based Hexagram...
DeepMind’s MuZero picks up the rules of games as it plays
In a paper published in the journal Science late last year, Google parent company Alphabet’s DeepMind detailed AlphaZero, an AI system that could teach itself...
Blackstone will invest close to $400 million in mobile app marketer Liftoff
Financier Blackstone has agreed to invest in mobile app marketing optimization platform Liftoff. The companies aren’t saying the exact amount, but the total is...
Navi esports club launches ‘metaverse’ with DMarket in-game trading platform
Esports club Navi (also known as Natus Vincere, or “born to win”), is launching a new gaming portal, or “metaverse,” with the help of...
Why Intel Capital invested in BoomTV amid the esports boom
Intel Capital invested in amateur esports firm BoomTV as part of a broad move to raise the profile of gamers and esports in mainstream...
Fable Studio unveils two AI-based virtual beings who can talk to you
Fable Studio has announced two new conversational AI virtual beings, or artificial people. Their names are Charlie and Beck, and they will be able...