Transform 2021 Join us for the world’s leading event about accelerating enterprise transformation with AI and Data July 12-16, 2021 Free Registration Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. Ohayoo is the new kid on the block in Chinese games. The company is a division of ByteDance, […]
Monetizing the esports boom It’s surprisingly easy for developers and publishers to add tournaments, event streaming, and more to accelerate game commerce globally. Learn how. Register Now Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Crash Bandicoot: On the Run has garnered more than 27 million downloads, according […]
The power of data in gaming’s red-hot market Learn how to seize the power of data to attract and keep players, create personalized gaming experiences, and cash in on the industry’s seismic growth. Register Now Nexon, the Tokyo-based maker of Maplestory and other online games, has invested $ 874 million in Hasbro, Bandai Namco, Konami, […]
GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. Hosted Online April 28-29, 2021 Register Now Two years after it put some money into Epic Games in 2018, Smash Ventures finally came out of hiding with its $ 75 million fund for media, entertainment, and games. Smash Ventures […]
GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. Hosted Online April 28-29, 2021 Register Now Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Indian game startup All-Star Games has raised $ 1.5 million to make multiplayer games based on sports […]
Data: Meet ad creative From TikTok to Instagram, Facebook to YouTube, and more, learn how data is key to ensuring ad creative will actually perform on every platform. Register Now Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Axonius, a cybersecurity startup developing an end-to-end device management platform, […]
GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. Hosted Online April 28-29, 2021 Register Now Hiro Capital said it has led investments totaling $ 15 million in Snowprint Studios, Double Loop Games, and Happy Volcano Games. That’s a pretty big commitment to the three game studios, but […]
Roblox, the platform for user-generated games, will go public through a direct listing of its shares on March 10. The company also reported that it lost $ 253.3 million on revenues of $ 923.9 million for the year ended December 31. The San Mateo, California-based company original planned for an initial public offering last fall, […]
Blizzard Entertainment has released a new infographic showing Hearthstone‘s big numbers for 2020. That digital card game attracted over 23.5 million players during year. Above: Hearthstone 2020 data. Image Credit: Blizzard “With Battlegrounds launching late in 2019, we saw growth year-over-year and we continually see interest across all our game modes,” Hearthstone production director Nathan […]
Beyond the app store: Why mobile games need a multi-platform strategy Learn how to go beyond the tried-and-true pathways to improve discoverability, create community, and scale your mobile business. View On Demand Zynga beat analysts’ expectations today, reporting its highest-ever bookings and revenues in the fourth quarter ended December 31 thanks to the strong performance […]
Beyond the app store: Why mobile games need a multi-platform strategy Learn how to go beyond the tried-and-true pathways to improve discoverability, create community, and scale your mobile business. View On Demand Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege has hit 70 million registered players, including 15 million in the past year. The French video game […]
Getty Images The NHS Covid-19 app has told 1.7 million people in England and Wales to self-isolate to date. Health ministers have also revealed they believe it has prevented about 600,000 cases of the disease. In a further disclosure, internal data indicates that about 16.5 million people are currently actively using its contact-tracing tool. That […]
Enlarge portal gda / Flickr A benign barcode scanner with more than 10 million downloads from Google Play has been caught receiving an upgrade that turned it to the dark side, prompting the search-and-advertising giant to remove it. Barcode Scanner, one of dozens of such apps available in the official Google app repository, began its […]
How open banking is driving huge innovation Learn how fintechs and forward-thinking FIs are accelerating personalized financial products through data-rich APIs. Register Now Self-driving car startup Pony.ai today announced it has raised $ 100 million in an extension of its series C round. The funds bring the company’s total raised to over $ 1 billion […]
How open banking is driving huge innovation Learn how fintechs and forward-thinking FIs are accelerating personalized financial products through data-rich APIs. Register Now Metalenz said it has raised $ 10 million to create 3D sensors on a chip with structures that are 1,000 times smaller than a human hair. The new investment allows Metalenz to […]