Drake Star Partners: Game deals topped $85B across 1,159 transactions in 2021
Game industries deals surpassed an unparalleled $85 billion across 1,159 transactions in 2021, according to a report by investment bank Drake Star Partners. The...
New York Game Awards 2022 goes virtual, releases list of nominees
The New York Video Game Critics Circle announced today that the New York Game Awards will be virtual only this year. The show will...
Dying Light 2 will take somewhere between 20, 80, or 500 hours to finish
Dying Light 2: Stay Human will take either 20, 80, or 500 hours to complete, according to the series’ Twitter account. Leading up to...
How to run an international conference during a pandemic
During a humid October evening in Singapore, I found myself in a hotel bar. It was the night before a big gaming convention, and...
The best cameo on ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ is a real-life video game Spacewar
The Book of Boba Fett is yet another chance for Star Wars fans to spot fun Easter eggs and cameos, but the best one of...
Twitter reports gaming delivered 2.4B tweets in 2021
Twitter today released details on how gaming effected tweet traffic in 2021. According to the data, it was one of the biggest years for...
StageZero raises $1.8M to combine mobile game rewards and AI training data
StageZero has raised $1.8 million in funding to give gamers rewards for participating in in-app tasks that generate valuable AI training data. The funding...
Take-Two buys Zynga for $12.7B enterprise value
Take-Two, the maker of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto games, is buying mobile social game publisher Zynga for an enterprise value of $12.7 billion....
Niko Partners: Big Middle East countries will hit 85.8M players/$3.1B in revenues by 2025
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Egypt together will have 85.8 million gamers generating $3.1 billion in games revenue by 2025, according to market...
Streamers are making millions for charity — and they’re just getting started
YouTubers running charity streams on Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook Gaming have become a staple of the medium. It says something about the streaming community...
