January 6, 2023
It’s like the Power Glove, but for VR
Nintendo’s Power Glove was, to quote one of the eighties’ finest films, “so bad.” The NES peripheral transfixed a generation of youngsters, only to later realize that the…
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January 3, 2023
Nvidia helps Hyundai, BYD, Polestar join the in-car gaming revolution
Nvidia’s on demand cloud gaming service, known as GeForce Now, is headed to select Hyundai, BYD and Polestar electric vehicles, the company said Tuesday ahead of CES 2023…
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Magic Eden exec sees NFT gaming like the ‘early days of mobile gaming’
Blockchain games have grown exponentially over the past year as a new and innovative alternative to the traditional gaming world. While the two areas have been widely separated,…
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Playtika lays off 610 workers, shuts down three online gaming titles amid broader restructure
Playtika, the Israeli tech company that made its name through a series of wildly successful online gambling and gaming titles with hundreds of millions of players, is leveling…
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Microsoft could get its first official union as ZeniMax QA testers organize
A group of about 300 quality assurance (QA) testers at video game company ZeniMax Media are seeking to form the first ever union at Microsoft, the parent company…
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Google’s latest Doodle lets you create your own mini arcade game
Today’s Google Doodle lets you make, play and share your own mini arcade game to honor the memory of videogame pioneer Jerry Lawson. Lawson led the team that…
Read articleNovember 28, 2022
This startup is bringing precision control for gamers to the humble keyboard
You wouldn’t drive a car or fly a plane if the only controls you had available were on/off switches for left and right or up and down, and…
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NFT marketplace Magic Eden integrates with Polygon to grow blockchain gaming
NFT marketplace Magic Eden is integrating with the Ethereum scaling layer-2 blockchain Polygon to dive deeper into the blockchain gaming and NFT ecosystems, the companies announced on Tuesday.…
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Carv valued at $40M as investors race to back web3 identity builders
Decentralized identity startups are having a moment as investors seek the next generation of killer applications in web3, even in times of market volatility. Blockchain-based identity systems, they…
Read articleNovember 15, 2022
Yahaha raises $40M more for its user-generated, low-code immersive gaming platform
Yahaha, a Helsinki- and Shanghai-based immersive, user-generated, low-code gaming platform founded by a group of Chinese gaming vets, made a splash in January when it announced a cumulative…
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