Volley, a San Francisco-based tech startup and a builder of voice-controlled entertainment experiences for Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and smartphones, announced today that it has acquired Voxion, the leading developer of phone-connected games for voice platforms that’s led by teenage […]
Last month, we wrote about Discord after a report that Microsoft was in talks to acquire the popular video-game chat community app Discord for more than $10 billion. If the deal had gone through, it would have been the latest—and biggest—play Microsoft has […]
As we reported back in February, Fortnite maker Epic Games unveiled to the world the first glimpse of its MetaHuman Creator, a browser-based app to create stunning digital humans in less than an hour using its UnrealEngine. Today, Epic Games announced […]
Crypto.com has partnered with internationally known celebrity content creators as it launches a new NFT platform featuring membership by invitation only. Tech will meet top-draw creative entertainment in a unique offering for the crypto industry. Celebrity Content To Accompany The […]
Microsoft is in talks to acquire the popular video-game chat community app Discord for more than $10 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. If the deal goes through, it would be the latest—and […]
Late last year, we wrote about Microsoft after the tech giant announced a $7.5 billion acquisition of Bethesda, the maker of hit Fallout and The Elder Scrolls games. It was the biggest gaming acquisition in Microsoft’s history, surpassing the $2.5 billion […]
Tech and Gaming Giant NVIDIA unveiled the GeForce RTX 3060, a processor chip dedicated to Ethereum mining. Also known as the Cryptocurrency Mining Processor (CMP), the product is geared towards miners that would use traditional GPUs to mine ETH and other […]
While major technology companies are making significant advancements, it is startup companies that are having the most dramatic impact across many different industries. This has been seen in New Zealand, especially among gaming studios who are becoming the industry standard […]
Electronic Arts (EA), a global leader in interactive entertainment, is on a buying spree in recent months. In December 2020, we covered the gaming giant after it acquired U.K. racing game developer Codemasters for $1.2 billion. Codemasters is a developer and publisher of […]
To steal Musk’s phrase, “It’s getting real.” Creating truly convincing digital humans is hard. It takes a huge amount of time, effort, and skill, not to mention costly equipment and staff. There have been some great examples running in Unreal Engine […]
The global eSports market is booming. According to Newzoo, the global esports will top $1 billion in 2020, a year-on-year growth of +15.7%, up from $950.6 million in 2019. The number of eSports players has also doubled from 2018 to 2021. […]
Three months after the release of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, gamers are still finding it hard to get their hands on one console or the other. The shipments that were supposed to restock the warehouses of online and […]
Online casinos have been a growing industry for quite some time. With more and more people choosing to gamble from their couch rather than going to a casino, it’s easy to see why gambling companies are putting more money into […]
We now live in a unique time where the survival of most companies is driven by the 24-hour news cycle. Just a few days ago, we saw how Elon Musk’s tweet sent the stock of GameStop soaring to new heights. […]
Yesterday, we wrote about how a flailing video game chain GameStop went from losing $470 million a year ago to becoming a $7.05 billion company by market cap. At the time of writing (about 3:PM EST), GameStop was trading at $116.20. Then at […]
Huuuge Games, a Berlin, Germany-based gaming startup and provider of a real-time social casual gaming platform, said it will go public in an initial public offering (IPO) on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The company expects to raise $150 million. The startup […]
Coronavirus pandemic and unemployment did little to stop consumers from spending over the week of Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Apple reported record-breaking holiday sales as its App Store customers spent $1.8 billion on digital goods and services in just one week, the tech […]
Bitcoin is the rage these days. As Bitcoin surges past $30,000, the world’s most popular cryptocurrency is getting the attention of everyone around the world. However, non-fungible token or NFT is a term you’ve probably never heard of. Simply put, NFT […]
The eSports market is estimated to be worth around $1.1 billion in 2020, according to a recently published report by market intelligence firm Newzoo. Of the total, Newzoo expects around three-quarters of the esports industry’s value to come from media rights and […]
Since 2018, we’ve written at least over a hundred articles covering the gaming industry. The gaming space has grown exponentially without signs of slowing down. According to a recent report by Newzoo, the global gaming market will generate $159.3 billion […]
