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Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  According to Nokia’s 2021 Threat Intelligence Report, the number of new banking trojans increased 80% year-after-year in the first half of 2021. These trojans, which were found to be particularly active in Latin America and Europe, specifically

This article is part of a Gaming Insights series paid for by Facebook. When Wildlife Studios, one of the largest mobile gaming companies in the world, was ready to capture a new international audience for one of their largest games, “Zooba: Battle Royale,” they looked toward Pacific America — and specifically, Thailand. Thailand is a

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Gamers in North America seem to focus on the same handful of concerns. For example, they constantly ask publishers if certain upcoming games will launch on a specific console. Or they talk about whether or not a

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  John Hanke, CEO of Niantic, began his Augmented World Expo speech talking about the metaverse, and how it conjures thoughts of Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, and The Matrix. “In those fictional versions of the future, the world

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Play-to-earn is a new phrase that has a lot of people excited about a new opportunity in gaming. And in this case, the biggest party that could benefit is the players themselves. We had a panel to

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  San Jose, California-based ControlUp, an IT infrastructure management, monitoring, and troubleshooting platform, today announced that it raised $100 million co-contributed by K1 Investment Management and JVP, bringing its total raised to $140 million. CEO Asaf Ganot says

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Apple has one of the world’s biggest gaming ecosystems with $47 billion of spending in 2020, according to measurement firm Sensor Tower. And while it doesn’t have a game business, its share of gaming revenues thanks to

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Roblox is one of the biggest games in the world. It attracts a huge audience of young people. And that makes it an ideal platform for someone like Anat Shperling, CEO and co-founder of Toya, who is

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  New York-based Density, a startup developing people-counting, AI-powered sensors, today announced that it raised $125 million in financing, bringing the company’s valuation to $1.05 billion. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from 01 Advisors,

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  With a few exceptions, sports gaming has been the playground of the giants. With companies like 2K and Electronic Arts dominating the video game sports market for decades, there hasn’t been much wiggle room for anyone else.

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Intel has acquired RemoteMyApp, a Szczecin, Poland-based startup providing cloud gaming solutions to businesses, for an undisclosed sum. RemoteMyApp CEO Andreas Hestbeck broke the news this morning to Polish media, which an Intel spokesperson confirmed to VentureBeat

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Socure today announced that it raised $450 million as part of an oversubscribed series E round led by Accel and T. Rowe Price, valuing the company at $4.5 billion. Bain Capital Ventures, Tiger Global, Commerce Ventures, Flint

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Roblox, the platform for Lego-like user-generated games, reported its bookings for the third quarter ended September 30 were $637.8 million, up 28% from the same period a year ago. The San Mateo company reported a net loss

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Zynga beat analysts’ expectations today, reporting strong bookings and revenues in the third quarter that ended September 30 thanks to the performance of games including Rollic’s hypercasual titles and strong ad revenue. While Zynga beat profit and

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Faraway has raised $21 million to enable blockchain games with player-driven economies. Not bad for a company that started in June. Miami-based Faraway is a new game studio leveraging blockchain technology to unlock player-driven and decentralized game

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  New game studio Core Loop has raised $12 million to develop a sandbox massively multiplayer online game using blockchain technology. The company was started last year by mobile game veterans Vincenzo Alagna and Dan Chao. They fired

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Imagination Technologies unveiled its most-advanced ray-tracing graphics processing unit (GPU) for games and other markets. The new IMG CXT will bring desktop-quality visuals to mobile devices, said Kristof Beets, vice president of technology insights at Imagination in an

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Zynga today announced the launch of FarmVille 3, the most recent iteration of its casual game series. The game is now available on iOS and Android. The developer has been teasing FarmVille 3 for a few weeks,