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Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Nearly two years into the pandemic, most consumers still aren’t comfortable going out for entertainment. And as a result, 84% are spending more time with online entertainment, and many younger consumers are playing games. Those are the

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  IoT product provider Zyter has partnered with Juganu, a technology company providing solutions for the professional lighting market, to weave advanced lighting tech into smart cities. Zyter’s IoT platform breaks down information by integrating and consolidating data

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Apple unveiled its M1 Pro and M1 Max chips with up to 57 billion transistors for the new MacBook Pro laptops. In an online event, Apple CEO Tim Cook and other executives touted the new processors as

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Bitkraft Ventures raised a $75 million token fund last week to invest in blockchain gaming and digital entertainment investments. The company did so even though it already has more than $540 million in assets under management and

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  With backing from Supercell, Papukaya is creating mobile games targeted at people who don’t consider themselves to be gamers. And in doing so, Papukaya hopes to redefine the meaning of games for “mainstream audiences.” Last year, Helsinki-based

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Groove, an automation-driven sales enablement platform, today announced that it closed a $45 million series B round led by Viking Global Investors with participation from Capital One Ventures, Level Equity, Quest Venture Partners, and Uncork Capita. The

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Ludia unveiled DC Heroes & Villains, the first match-3 puzzle role-playing game (RPG) set in the DC Universe. The mobile game will come out in 2022, and Ludia (now owned by Jam City) has a license from

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  HTC is taking virtual reality in a new direction today with the portable Vive Flow immersive glasses. The Vive Flow looks more like compact and lightweight augmented reality glasses, but it has a wrap-around cloth barrier that

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Helsinki-based Order of Meta has raised $1.5 million from Play Ventures and others for a mobile shooter game. The company was started in the past year by former Panzerdog founders and Wargaming alumni. Play Ventures led the

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Sometimes you need people to inspire you to greater heights and to believe that some amazing technology is just around the corner. That’s what we’ll celebrate with our inspiring talks at our GamesBeat Summit Next event. And

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Roblox doesn’t want to create the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One. Instead, it wants its users to create the metaverse. And today it showed

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Roblox-centric developer Melon today announced it was releasing its first original game within the metaverse. It’s called Jump Kingdoms. In Jump Kingdoms, gamers play as Pals, brightly colored creatures they can customize (these characters are unique to

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  IronSource said it plans to acquire mobile advertising and app monetization company Tapjoy for $400 million. The deal is part of an ongoing consolidation trend in the mobile marketing ecosystem as growth, active investments, and industry disruption

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Kixeye shareholders have filed a lawsuit against Stillfront Group over $30 million in a disputed earnout payment related to its acquisition. Fortis Advisors, a seller representative acting on behalf of Kixeye’s shareholders, filed the lawsuit today in

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  The implications of the growth of low- and no-code platforms — platforms that allow users without programming knowledge to build apps — are profound. By 2024, low-code app development will be responsible for more than 65% of

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Consumers in five countries now spend more than five hours a day using mobile apps. And consumers in 12 major markets spend over four hours per day in mobile apps, according to mobile data and analytics firm

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Hearthstone‘s newest mode officially releases today. Mercenaries gives the aging digital card game a needed boost, especially if you’re looking for a way to kill time that doesn’t require you to play against other humans. Mercenaries is

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Clash has raised $9.1 million in funding and today it is launching Drops, which are in-app digital goods that fans buy to give to their favorite creators. Drops are akin to tips in the real world. When