Sky Mavis raises $152M at nearly $3B valuation for Axie Infinity play-to-earn NFT game
Sky Mavis has raised $152 million at a nearly $3 billion valuation to help grow its Axie Infinity “play-to-earn” game that monetized via nonfungible...
Niantic acquires Hoss to improve the Lightship developer experience
Niantic today announced that it acquired developer experience leader Hoss and that the Hoss team will help augment the Lightship ARDK platform. Hoss is...
Flavourworks pioneers a new kind of immersive touch mobile game
Flavourworks is about to give the game industry a touch of innovation with its next live-action cinematic mobile game using a patented touch video...
The DeanBeat: What’s coming next for the games industry
The core of the game industry is doing just fine. By various measures, it grew users and revenues by 23% last year when the...
Game Jolt raises $2.6M to expand social platform for Gen Z gamers
Game Jolt has raised $2.6 million to expand its social platform where millions of Gen Z gamers and creators share and discover content around...
EA promotes Laura Miele to chief operating officer
Electronic Arts promoted studios chief Laura Miele to chief operating officer. She replaces Blake Jorgensen, who will step down from his roles of chief...
The Game Awards will take place in-person in L.A. on December 9
Geoff Keighley‘s The Game Awards will take place as a live, in-person ceremony in Los Angeles on December 9. The celebration of video game...
Epic’s Superawesome lets game devs set up free parental verification for child gamers
Epic Games and SuperAwesome will make it easy for all game developers to implement free parent verification in their video games. That may sound...
Kahoot adds Star Wars-themed games in new partnership
Kahoot recently announced that it has opened a partnership with Disney to bring Star Wars characters to their educational material in a series of...
Supersocial raises $5.2M to make games for the Roblox metaverse
Making Roblox games isn’t just for teens anymore. Supersocial has raised $5.2 million to develop games for the fast-growing Roblox platform, as well as...