Gaming

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Roblox will host a launch party for YouTuber and hip-hop musician KSI as the latest performance on Roblox’s music experience platform. Since concerts can’t be held during the pandemic, the virtual event is the next best thing, and entertainers such as John Legend and Travis Scott have been taking advantage of it…

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Zynga has agreed to acquire StarLark, a Chinese game developer, and the mobile golf title Golf Rival from Betta Games for $525 million in cash and stock. Golf Rival is the second-largest mobile golf game behind Playdemic’s Golf Clash, and Electronic Arts is in the process of buying that studio for $1.4 billion. The…

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Nintendo had a handful of new game launches during its last fiscal quarter, but the publisher’s older hits were just as important to its bottom line. The company sold 2.07 million copies of New Pokémon Snap, 1.34 million copies of Mario Golf: Super Rush, and 1.04 million copies of Miitopia. But during the same…

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Planetarium said its decentralized role-playing game Nine Chronicles, which uses nonfungible tokens (NFTs) so players can own and make their game assets, has raised $2.6 million. NFT gaming unicorn Animoca Brands led the round ahead of the launch of Nine Chronicles’ governance token on the Ethereum cryptocurrency…