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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

TechCrunch

Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. It’s also making forays into non-game scenarios like online education and autonomous driving.

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Elodie Games obtains $32.5M round to make social co-op gaming better

TechCrunch

During the darkest hours of the pandemic, millions upon millions of people turned to online gaming as a way to pass time in lockdown and connect with friends they couldn’t see in person. But a social, cooperative, fun and cross-platform gaming experience is remarkably hard to find — and Elodie Games is here to change that.

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Shadow announces premium plan for its cloud gaming service

TechCrunch

It is a Windows instance, which means you can install whatever you want — games, photo editing software, Microsoft Office, you name it. But the service works particularly well for gamers, as everything has been optimized for video games, from latency, 4:4:4 color support and gamepad compatibility to specifications.

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PowerZ raises $8.3 million for its video game focused on education

TechCrunch

The company is both an edtech startup and a video game studio with an ambitious goal — it wants to build a game that is as engaging as Minecraft or Fortnite, but with a focus on education. In February, PowerZ launched the first version of its game on computers. On average, they spent four hours in the game.

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Parsec raises $25M from A16Z to power remote work and cloud gaming

TechCrunch

” They started out by helping gamers access their gaming PCs from other devices (the Parsec app is currently available Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, Raspberry Pi and the web). “From the beginning, we thought that if we could build something that is great for gaming, it will be great for everything,” Boxer said.

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Nullables Livestream #17: Game On

James Shore

Young, aka jitterted , to look at Nullables and A-Frame Architecture as an alternative to Mocks, Spies, and Hexagonal Architecture. Each episode combines a healthy dose of architecture and design discussion with hands-on coding. In this weekly livestream series, I pair up with Ted M. Watch us live every Monday!

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Exploring the Ways To Deploy Microservices Architecture

Dzone - DevOps

In today’s day and age of rapid application development, microservices have emerged as a game changer for software development people. In this blog, we have curated some of the most effective ways to deploy microservices architecture. Are you someone who is embarking on the journey of deploying microservices?