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Griffin Gaming Partners raises biggest game VC fund with $750M

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Griffin Gaming Partners is revealing it has the biggest fund in gaming with $750 million raised for its game-focused venture capital fund. Founders Peter Levin, Phil Sanderson, and Nick Tuosto (a Griffin adviser who is also managing director at Liontree) head the fund, and it…
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Steam Deck supports Discord and music apps in the background

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! While the consoles have no or limited support for Discord, Valve’s handheld Steam Deck PC has a full version of the app. This enables you to join the…
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Turnt Gaming raises $4.3M for skill-based blockchain fighting game

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Turnt Gaming has raised $4.3 million to build a fighting game that uses the blockchain and nonfungible tokens (NFTs). The money will help the company accelerate the building of Taunt Battleworld, a skill-based fighting game simulator that features boxing icon Floyd Mayweather and…
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Steam Deck emulation can handle Persona 5 and more

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Steam Deck is a gaming beast. It can handle recent blockbusters like Resident Evil Village and even Elden Ring really well. That is thanks to its modern…
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Epic Games acquires online music platform Bandcamp

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Epic Games revealed today it is acquiring Bandcamp, the music platform. Bandcamp will continue to operate as before, though it will use Epic’s resources…
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Gran Turismo 7 review — a pleasant drive

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! I’m not exactly what you would call a car guy. Gran Turismo 7 — which comes out on March 4 for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 — wants to change that. This game just loves cars. It loves the way they look. It loves the way they race. It loves just talking about them. It’s…
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Steam Deck has a surprisingly great microphone

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Valve is actively rolling out Steam Deck systems to people around the world. I’ve had one for a few weeks, and I’m still diving into many of its…
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Nintendo adds missions and rewards to Switch Online

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Nintendo has added missions and rewards to the Nintendo Switch for anyone subscribed to Nintendo Switch Online. The Japanese gaming company follows both…
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Nexon founder Jung-Ju Kim passes away at 54

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Jung-Ju “JJ” Kim, the founder of online game publisher Nexon, passed away at age 54. Nexon announced that he passed away in Hawaii on February 28. Nexon did not provide a cause of death, but it noted that he had been undergoing treatment for depression and the symptoms had…
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