Two 5G games will debut at the Super Bowl from Juncture Media (right) and Colorfiction.
Two 5G games will debut at the Super Bowl from Juncture Media (right) and Colorfiction.
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Verizon and NFL give 2 game devs $400,000 each to launch 5G games Super Bowl

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Verizon and the NFL have named two winners in the Verizon 5G NFL Mobile Gaming Challenge. The winning teams will get $400,000 each to create 5G-enabled games at the Super Bowl.

The whole effort has been underway for some time. Playcrafting, which runs a network of game developer jams, did a couple of game jams with Verizon during 2018. Last fall, Verizon and the NFL teamed up to recruit U.S. developers for a 5G game contest, and they brought in Playcrafting to run the contest. They announced the contest at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.