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Amateur esports and game community firm Super League Gaming has agreed to acquire Mobcrush, the game livestreaming platform that distributes video to a variety of mobile and PC platforms.
The Santa Monica, California-based Super League Gaming, which is publicly traded on Nasdaq, runs esports events and…
Silver Rain Games will make a game for EA Originals
March 11, 2021
Silver Rain Games, a game studio cofounder by actor Abubakar Salim (a star in Raised by Wolves), has teamed up to make a game for Electronic Arts’ EA Originals label.
The BAFTA award-nominated actor previously played a voice acting role in Assassin’s Creed: Origins in…
Square Enix is launching its own Nintendo Direct-style video event called Square Enix Presents. This showcase debuts at 10 a.m. Pacific/1 p.m. Eastern on March 18, and it will focus on a handful of upcoming and ongoing Square Enix releases. These include the $60 platformer…
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Roblox, the platform for Lego-like user-generated games, went public today in a direct listing, where employees and investors finally get a chance to sell shares on the market. The initial price was far higher than the reference price of $45 a share, as the first trade was about $64.50 a share, giving the…
Xbox boss Phil Spencer ripped off the bandage this morning. In an Xbox Wire blog post, Spencer confirmed that Xbox’s acquisition of publisher Bethesda will result in some games that are exclusive to Xbox and PC. And he once again reiterated that Xbox Game Pass is the focus…
With the Bethesda purchase now legally approved, Microsoft has posted an “official welcome” to its newest acquisition from Xbox boss Phil Spencer. This notes that more Bethesda games will be coming to Game Pass later this week. It also mentions Xbox’s philosophy about…
Regulators in the United States and Europe approved Microsoft’s acquisition of Zenimax Media, and that means Bethesda is now an Xbox studio. But what does that mean for the companies involved and for fans of games like Fallout and The Elder Scrolls? Well, Microsoft is going to start answering those questions with a video presentation on Thursday, March 11, according to sources familiar with the…
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Zynga has pledged $100,000 from its Social Impact Fund to support Girls Who Code on International Women’s Day 2021.
The Women at Zynga group pledge will enable Girls Who Code to…
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 was founded by Eric Garland and Evan Richter. Garland formerly led venture investments for…
The Super Nintendo Switch rumors are back thanks to a new report from Bloomberg. You can read what reviews editor Mike Minotti thinks the system needs right here. The Bloomberg story claims that Nintendo is sourcing new OLED 7-inch 720p screens from Samsung for the upgraded device. And then the system will target 4K in docked mode.
This joins a long lineage of rumors related to a Switch refresh…
