Gaming

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. VitalXP has raised an additional $3 million in pre-seed financing for its action-packed gameverse platform and its first game, Lowlife Forms. The round was led by Streamlined Ventures and Marbruck Investments. And it shows that Web3-based games are still getting funding in spite of a crypto…

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Sony revealed its upcoming offerings for PlayStation Plus users in flashier way than usual: By putting them in its big State of Play event. While the bulk of the show was devoted to PlayStation VR2 titles and the upcoming game Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, they did sneak the new PS…

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Nvidia and Microsoft announced today they’ve signed a deal bringing Xbox PC games to the GeForce Now cloud gaming platform. In the coming weeks, players who own Xbox games on PC games — both via the Microsoft Store and third-party storefronts — can stream them via GeForce Now’s cloud…

I worked a couple of days in Santa Monica, California, this week to get a fresh perspective on games. It was my third visit to Los Angeles in recent weeks and a fruitful one, as Southern California has become a vibrant hub for the gaming business in the Golden State. It’s vibrant because we’ve seen gaming and Hollywood get married again, thanks to the huge success of The Last of Us television…