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GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Jam City is releasing 10,000 of its limited-edition Prime Eternals NFTs this week in its first upcoming blockchain game Champions: Ascension. The prime Eternals are the first characters known as champions that will be available for the

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Sales engagement, the interactions that take place between a salesperson and a potential customer throughout the sales cycle, can accelerate companies’ revenue growth. But setbacks often crop up. In a recent Gartner report, salespeople pegged content strategy, partnerships

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Mobile game publisher Scopely has named entertainment leader Salaam Coleman Smith to its board of directors. Scopely’s co-CEOs Walter Driver and Javier Ferreira announced the appointment of Coleman Smith, who has considerable experience across multiple Fortune 500

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! In 2021, the total number of closed and announced deals in games reached $80.4 billion in value, according to a new report by InvestGame. And in just one month in January, we have already exceeded that with

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. Computer vision, which deals with how computers can understand objects in images, is a rapidly growing subfield of AI. According to a 2021 IDG survey, 37% of organizations say that they have definitive plans to implement computer vision, while 44% say

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Tilting Point announced today it has partnered with developer Gear Inc. and Mars Retail Group on M&M’S Adventure. The mobile game, based around the candy of the same name, will launch on iOS and Android this spring.

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Last year, Waabi, a startup developing autonomous vehicle technology, launched out of stealth with $83.5 million in venture funding. Founded by Raquel Urtasun, previously the chief scientist and head of R&D at Uber ATG, Uber’s self-driving car

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Animoca Brands has acquired motorsport game maker Grease Monkey Games. Melbourne, Australia-based Grease Monkey Games makes mobile and PC-based racing games such as Torque Burnout and Torque Drift. Its titles have been downloaded more than 45 million

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! During the first two months of the pandemic, there were several questions about how to support brick-and-mortar businesses. While 71% of Americans still shop in person at least once a week (according to a 2021 Retail Brew-Harris

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Organizations are devoting more resources to deploying intelligent document processing, particularly as they embark on digital transformations. As Deloitte explains, intelligent document processing automates the processing of data contained in documents — understanding what the document is

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Matthew Wolf started a new job and a new studio at Zynga to make blockchain games back in November. Then Take-Two agreed to buy Zynga for $12.7 billion in January. Was it a coincidence? Who knows? But

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Roblox, the platform for Lego-like user-generated games, reported its bookings for the fourth quarter ended December 31 were $770.1 million, up 20% from the same period a year ago. The San Mateo company reported a net loss

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. Polygon raised $450 million for its blockchain protocol and it hired YouTube Gaming chief Ryan Wyatt to build its blockchain gaming platform. That’s a bold move for Wyatt, since he is leaving Google and YouTube for a blockchain company with a

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Supercell reported its revenues hit $2.24 billion (€1.89 billion, up 51%) and before-tax profits of $852 million (up 84%) for 2021, compared with $1.48 billion in revenue and before-tax profits of $463 million a year earlier. And

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Tripledot Studios has raised $116 million in its ambition to be the next giant company in mobile games. The financing round led by 20VC gives London-based casual game maker Tripledot a valuation of $1.4 billion. The company

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Africa is the last frontier market for games, and it’s starting to pick up a lot of momentum, according to game-focused managers at graphics and AI chip maker Nvidia. I spoke about the emergence of Africa’s gaming

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Dapper Labs said that minting nonfungible tokens (NFTs) on Flow takes less energy than a Google Search or an Instagram post. Deloitte Canada confirmed that. These findings are interesting considering all of the myths and realities floating

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Roblox hopes that its user-generated content platform will become the metaverse, and it made some headway this week as it announced brand partnerships this week with McLaren Racing, Alo Yoga, The Brit Awards, and the NFL. Any