Playable Worlds’ Stars Reach could be the next big sandbox sci-fi MMORPG
Stars Reach, the new sandbox sci-fi online game coming from Playable Worlds, aims to be the next big sci-fi massively multiplayer online role-playing game....
Playable Worlds unveils Raph Koster’s new sandbox MMO Stars Reach
Playable Worlds has announced its first title, Star Reach, a fully-simulated, massively multiplayer sandbox game for all to explore. This is a modern MMO...
Playable Worlds raises over $25M for cloud-based sandbox MMO
Playable Worlds announced today that it has secured over $25 million in a funding round led by Korean video game publisher Kakao Games Corp.,...
How Playable Worlds is building a cloud-native sandbox MMO
Playable Worlds, an online game company that Raph Koster and Eric Goldberg founded, is making a “cloud-native” massively multiplayer online game. But what that...
Playable Worlds: First comes the game, then comes the Metaverse
Raph Koster has been a guru of online games for decades, and he would love to build Metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are...
GB Summit Digital speakers: Evaluating the outlook for big game investments
This year GamesBeat Summit Digital is going to be digital online-only. And here’s the next great lineup of speakers for our Series A/B Panel: Phil...
Raph Koster’s Playable Worlds raises $2.7 million for sandbox MMORPG
Online gaming veteran Raph Koster has started a new company called Playable Worlds, and it has raised $2.7 million in seed funding to change...
Why VCs are investing in game companies again
Institutional venture capital funds are investing in games again, just like seed investors who deal with smaller game startup investments. We talked about this...
The state of seed-stage investing for games
Venture capital and seed investors once stayed away from game investments because they were “hit-driven businesses.” But David Gardner, general partner of London Venture...
The DeanBeat: Our dream event with Atari father Nolan Bushnell, Respawn’s Vince Zampella and Spider-Man dude Ted Price
I’ve been dreaming about putting on a great game industry event for a long time. We’ve been doing our GamesBeat conferences for a decade...