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Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Verizon Communications — ranked 20 in the Fortune 500 list with the latest reported revenue of more than $128 billion — has made its private mobile edge computing solution with AWS Outposts available for enterprise clients in

Yesterday, I wrote about my rule of game journalism: follow the money. That was all about the flow of money into blockchain games. And there’s another rule as well: follow the people. In yesterday’s story, I said I expected to see an exodus of people from traditional game companies to blockchain game companies. Chris Akhavan,

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Unity announced today it’s launching Unity Gaming Services, a new solution for game developers that will make it easier than ever to launch and sustain cross-platform multiplayer titles. Unity Gaming Services (UGS) will unify several of Unity’s

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  GamesBeat Decides must go on. That’s true even if Advance Wars gets delayed and destroys GamesBeat editor Jeff Grubb’s morale. Also, Mike is gonna watch the Uncharted movie trailer live for the first time during this episode.

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Kazoo Games announced today that it has raised $12 million in Series A funding. This will go toward development of casual and midcore games for mobile devices. Online game developer and publisher Garena led the round. Based

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Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Finnish studio Mainframe is working on a cloud-native massively multiplayer online adventure for Xbox Game Studios. That’s according to reporter Jez Corden on The Xbox Two podcast, and it’s something that I’ve separately confirmed through independent sources.

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Google is lowering the fees on the Play Store from 30% to 15%, at least for some. This fee reduction applies to revenue made through subscriptions. Google revealed the news in a blog post, which reads: “To

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Deep North, a Foster City, California-based startup applying computer vision to security camera footage, today announced that it raised $16.7 million in a series A-1 round. Led by Celesta Capital and Yobi Partners, with participation from Conviction

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Invicti Security, an Austin, Texas-based company offering web app cybersecurity and data management services, today announced that it signed an agreement for a $625 million majority investment led by Summit Partners with participation from Turn/River Capital. Invicti

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Com2Us has launched its NBA Now 22 mobile game for players to manage their basketball dream teams. The free-to-play game is available today on iOS and Android. South Korea-based Com2Us, a division 0f Gamevil, built the game under

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Sentons has launched a new low-power and small sensor with an accompanying gesture engine to be used in wearables (including glasses, earbuds, watches, and fitness trackers) to create virtual controls to navigate apps and features on the

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Activision Blizzard reported that 20 people have exited company and 20 more have been disciplined in its investigation of allegations of sex discrimination at the big video game giant. The company said it has also added three

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Supercell’s Space Ape Games studio is unveiling Boom Beach: Frontlines, a free-to-play multiplayer action game set in the Boom Beach universe. Boom Beach: Frontlines is launching in Canada today with other territories to follow in a soft

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Vonage today announced that it acquired Jumper.ai, a Singapore-based, AI-powered conversational commerce platform, for an undisclosed sum. Vonage says that Jumper’s team will join its product and engineering group based in Singapore as the company incorporates Jumper’s

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.  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.  Montréal has a booming job market for video game, visual effects, and animation talent as a working hub for those industries in North America. The Canadian city has more than 235 video game and visual effects studios,