Why Greycroft’s Jon Goldman invests in games, esports, AR, and VR
Not many investors have the expertise to invest in the hit-or-miss video game business. But Jon Goldman has figured it out. He is a...
Digi-Capital: 2017 saw $3 billion invested in AR/VR, half in Q4 alone
AR/VR investment records fell last year as startups raised over $3 billion in 28 categories we track including over $1.5 billion in Q4 2017...
Automaton raises $10 million for survival game where 1,000 players fight in 12 square kilometers
Automaton is a new game studio in the United Kingdom, and it’s raised $10 million to make an online survival game built on simulation technology...
GamesBeat 2017 reveals five new speakers for The Time Machine theme
GamesBeat 2017 will take place at San Francisco’s beautiful Fort Mason on October 5 and October 6. And we’re delighted to announce our next...
Improbable hires game veteran Bill Roper as chief creative officer
Improbable, a British tech company that raised $502 million from SoftBank for its virtual-world simulation software, announced that former Disney game creator Bill Roper...
Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig will design the politics in online game Seed
Lawrence Lessig has spent his career studying constitutional law, and he has been helping new democracies to form the legal frameworks for governance. Now...
How Improbable convinced SoftBank to invest $502 million in its platform for massive online game worlds
London-based technology firm Improbable has had a very improbable week. The company raised a whopping $502 million from Japan’s SoftBank for its SpatialOS platform for...
RuneScape maker Jagex and Improbable partner to create massive open world games
Just a few days after raising $502 million from SoftBank, Improbable has announced an alliance to develop big online game worlds with Jagex, the...
These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week
This week, Tech.eu tracked 16 technology M&A transactions, one IPO and 71 tech funding deals totaling nearly €1.14 billion (about $1.24 billion) in Europe,...
The DeanBeat: What’s behind this week’s big investments in games
Sometimes the game industry seems small and quiet compared to a “hot” industry like artificial intelligence. Then we get a week like this one,...