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Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Electronic Arts today announced that its mobile title Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes has had more than 100 million players life to date. The company mentioned this figure during the latest earnings report. Note that it doesn’t

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Electronic Arts held its second quarter earnings call for fiscal year 2022 earlier today. The publisher proclaimed the reporting period its strongest second quarter in company history. One of the major components of the company’s current success

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Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Activision Blizzard announced today that Jen Oneal is stepping down from her role as Blizzard co-leader, which she started in August along with Mike Ybarra. Ybarra will then become the sole leader of Blizzard. He and Oneal

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Netflix today announced it’s rolling out its first round of games. Five games will be available for Android users around the world. The platform will host five to start out: Stranger Things: 1984, Stranger Things 3: The

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  The Sandbox has raised $93 million in a funding round led by SoftBank to help grow its virtual world based on nonfungible tokens. It’s another sign of how hot NFTs have become in an age where Bitcoin’s

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  After more than two years of testing, Fortnite is shutting down in China on November 15. The game never officially launched in that territory and was intentionally missing features such as in app purchases. “The battle royale

We packed a lot of inspiring speakers and sessions into our GamesBeat Summit Next event coming on November 9-10. This post gives you a peek at our nearly final agenda for the event about the technology and trends that could take gaming to its next level. We’ll discuss everything from the metaverse to nonfungible tokens

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  PUBG Mobile is a huge gaming property with more than $6 billion in lifetime player spending. And while much of that success has been in Asia, Tencent continues to invest in making the mobile game more popular

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  In 2015, spurred by calls for greater police accountability, the federal government provided more than $23 million to local and tribal police agencies to expand their use of body cameras. As of 2016, 47% of the country’s

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Sony has made an investment in video startup Kiswe. While the amount wasn’t disclosed, Kiswe has now raised $46 million since its inception in 2013. The Sony Innovation Fund has invested in New Jersey-based Kiswe, which is

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Fabric, a startup developing a “microfulfillment” automation platform for retailers, today announced that it raised $200 million in series C funding led by Temasek with participation from Koch Disruptive Technologies, Union Tech Ventures, Harel Insurance & Finance,

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  DroneBase, a company providing drones as a service to capture high-resolution aerial photos, today announced that it raised $20 million in a funding round led by Euclidean Capital with participation from Union Square Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Energy

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Newzoo today released a report with new insights on American gamers. Not only do Americans prefer games over any other leisure activity (though not by a large margin), they also prefer games with puzzle-solving mechanics. One of

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Subspace is officially launching its parallel and real-time internet service for gaming and the metaverse on November 16. In the past couple of years, Subspace has built out its parallel network using its own networks and hardware

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Warner Bros. Games revealed the Battlegrounds update for its Game of Thrones: Conquest mobile game. Such updates might seem rather common. But consider that this new adventure that takes players beyond The Wall in The Great Ranging,

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Liftoff and GameRefinery today released their mobile social casino apps report for 2021. According to the report, mobile gamers are spending more money than ever on these apps, likely because of the ongoing pandemic. According to the