SoftBank leads $680M funding for NFT fantasy soccer game maker Sorare
SoftBank led a $680 million funding round for nonfungible token (NFT) fantasy soccer collectible game platform Sorare. The investment values Sorare at $4.3 billion,...
Scopely launches Star Trek: Fleet Command on the PC
Scopely is taking its hit mobile game Star Trek: Fleet Command to the PC as part of a new cross-platform strategy. That’s a big...
Zynga teases its first sneak peek at animal breeding in FarmVille 3
Zynga debuted its first sneak peek at FarmVille 3 in a video on YouTube today. The video gives fans a glimpse of the newest version of...
The DeanBeat: Interpreting what Epic v. Apple means for games
A federal judge last week issued a landmark ruling in Epic Games antitrust lawsuit against Apple over how Apple runs the App Store and...
Stardust raises $5M to provide secure U.S. dollar payments for NFTs in games
Stardust has raised $5 million in funding for its platform to enable players to buy nonfungible tokens (NFTs) in games using U.S. dollars. The...
Playco launches the first third-party game on TikTok: Sway Stories
Playco, a maker of instantly playable games for social platforms, announced Sway Stories for TikTok. The game is a first in terms of third-party...
Marketing mobile games is dead. ‘Probabilistically’
By any measure of value, audience size, or growth, mobile is the dominant form of gaming media. Already immensely popular due to its accessibility...
Anzu taps Human Security’s anti-fraud protection for in-game ads
In-game ad firm Anzu has teamed up with security firm Human Security to bring antifraud protection to Anzu’s platform. Human Security protects against sophisticated bot...
Hypercasual game studio FreePlay amasses more than 400M downloads with 3 big hits
The success of hypercasual games is being measured in hundreds of millions or billions of downloads. And that’s why we’re shining a light on...
Niko Partners: Asia’s cloud gaming addressable market will triple to 500M by 2025
Cloud gaming could reach an addressable market of about 150 million people in 2021, but actual numbers of cloud gaming users are smaller than...