TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

GDevelop is a game engine that lets you develop a video game without any specific development experience. With GDevelop, he wanted to make game development as accessible as possible. GDevelop focuses specifically on 2D games as it’s more accessible for both players and developers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Google Cloud has partnered with SuperGaming to offer the Indian gaming startup’s proprietary gaming engine, SuperPlatform, to developers worldwide, the latest in a series of recent steps from the Android-maker to expand focus into the gaming industry.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

French startup Homa Games has raised a $15 million seed round led by e.ventures and Idinvest Partners. The company has built several in-house technologies that can take a game from a prototype to an App Store success. It partners with third-party game studios and has a few in-house game studios as well.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A screenshot from Night School Studio game “Oxenfree” Night School Studio , the independent game developer known for narrative-driven titles like “Oxenfree,” announced today it has been acquired by Netflix. This makes it the first games studio the streaming giant has purchased.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The latest funding will be used to intensify R&D for AXIS , a wearable and game-oriented full-body motion capture solution. CEO of Refract Chng told TechCrunch that the solution they found out was to allow players to use their bodies as game controllers. billion gamers through its games and technology, such as the wearable AXIS. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2024

For two years, Netflix subscribers have been able to download tons of mobile games, all included for free with their subscription. Netflix has developed more than 75 mobile games, boasting popular IPs like Grand Theft Auto, Love Is Blind, Monument Valley and Oxenfree, among many others.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Mobile gaming is set to reach $315.9 billion this year, according to Statista, but it’s not easy money: Various subscription models, IP, operating costs and how people access games make it an expensive endeavor that can be prohibitive for anyone who wants to try something new or different.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Google’s defeat in its antitrust battle with Epic Games was a sweeping victory for the Fortnite maker and a significant upset to the business model underpinning the mobile app ecosystem, where platforms host app stores and then take a cut of developer revenues.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Homa partners with indie mobile game studios so that their games are perfectly optimized to become a hit game on the App Store and Google Play. In other words, Homa builds tools that help third-party developers build games. Since 2018, Homa has published 80 games and attracted one billion downloads.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2021

Goama (also known as Go Games) lets developers quickly integrate social games into their apps. Some of Goama’s clients have used it for promotional campaigns, while others rely on the platform, which introduces new games every week, to add a full-fledged gaming function to their app. million unique users.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

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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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Ace Games , a Turkish mobile gaming company founded by a former Peak Games co-founder, has raised a $7 million seed funding round led by Actera Group. Former gaming entrepreneurs Kristian Segerstrale, Alexis Bonte and Kaan Gunay also participated. 6 investors on 2021’s mobile gaming trends and opportunities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Let’s kick this off by reminding you there’s only 5 days left to save $1,000 on Disrupt passes ! — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 No one likes a cheater : Definitely not Russian game developer Battlestate Games, which banned and doxed 6,700 cheaters from its Escape from Tarkov game. Lorenzo has more.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 22, 2024

It’s once again “game on” for gaming startups. After several slow quarters , funding to companies in the gaming space has picked up a bit this year, driven by a resurgence in early-stage dealmaking and optimism around the ability of small studios to churn out hits. Certainly revenue is trending higher. The fund was part of a $7.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

As an interactive storytelling platform, Dorian is building a new way for writers to make money off of their fiction by turning their tales into choose-your-own-adventure mobile games. Before that, she spent seven years at G5 Games, where she was Head of Business Development & Licensing. “I Image Credits: Dorian.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Yet more funding is finding its way to Istanbul’s gaming startups. Today, Dream Games — the casual games developer behind the hit game Royal Match — is announcing a $255 million Series C that values the startup at $2.75 It will be worth watching to see how and if Dream Games follows it up.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

The surge of interest in e-sports, online fantasy leagues and more extensive online financial infrastructure have made the concept of real-money gaming more popular among consumers and games developers. million funding to continue developing its platform to work in a wider set of markets (its currently available in 37 U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Powder, AI-powered clipping software that takes highlights from gaming streams and turns them into short-form videos, will soon be able to detect shouting for gamers to create even better montages. Powder has developed […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Corey Wilton is the co-founder and CEO of Mirai Labs , the gaming studio behind Pegaxy. The first wave of the play-to-earn (P2E) gaming boom seems to be coming to an end. Leverage experience in the traditional gaming studio sphere. Pegaxy was the first game I worked on and the first I launched. Corey Wilton. Contributor.

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The Crazy Programmer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

There are several important steps to become a pro video game developer in 2021. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, video game revenue has surged over 20%. Indeed, consumers are to video games on web, mobile, and console formats to stay entertained through the pandemic. Learn A Game Engine. Earn Your Degree.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Sanlo , a San Francisco-based fintech startup that offers small to medium-sized game and app companies access to tools to manage their finances and capital to fuel their growth, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Konvoy. to help apps and games gain access to financial insights and capital. Image Credits: Sanlo.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Women-led mobile gaming startup Robin Games raised funding around the idea of carving out a new niche in the market of “lifestyle gaming.” Today, the startup is releasing its first title to tackle this concept with the launch of a mobile game, PLAYHOUSE, which combines both gameplay and shopping in one experience.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Mobile gaming is no exception. For a continent that is home to more than 1 billion millennials and Gen Zers, mobile gaming has never really picked up, despite the continent witnessing rapid economic growth and smartphone adoption. The company started as a game studio, developing and launching its own mobile games.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

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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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2023

When you play a game, how do you play it? Usually, they are games with a physical form, a console or an app. Artie is gearing up to shake up the games industry with another option, bringing high-end games back to the browser. The company refers to it as “over-the-top game streaming.” “The Among Us on your phone?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Microsoft has held conversations to invest in the Indian play-to-earn gaming platform Zupee in recent weeks and proposed to potentially lead a funding round of over $100 million, two people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, the latest in a series of bets from the cloud services giant to expand its business in the key overseas market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Jio Platforms, the biggest telecom operator in India and which has raised over $20 billion from Facebook, Google and other high-profile investors this year, is leading a financing round of a San Francisco-based startup that develops augmented reality mobile games.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

New York-based startup Sketchfab has been acquired by Epic Games , the company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine. Epic Games isn’t disclosing the terms of the deal. Epic Games also says that all integrations with third-party tools will remain available, including with Unity.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The gaming industry has exploded since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many people turned to social and casual gaming to entertain themselves at home and interest is expected to continue to rise. The post Game Developers: 5 Strategies for a Great User Experience appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. But first… what is a game engine, exactly? Godot editor demo.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The tabletop gaming industry has exploded over the last few years as millions discovered or rediscovered its joys, but it too is evolving — and The Last Gameboard hopes to be the venue for that evolution. If the pitch sounds familiar… it’s been attempted once or twice before. Image Credits: The Last Gameboard.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

There has been stiff backlash against NFTs in video games since they first started popping up. In general, both gamers as well as industry professionals have disapproved blockchain implementations in video games, mostly over concerns over the environmental impact that the technology has.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

A new startup called Skich wants to help mobile users find games to play that better match their interests. To do so, it’s created a game recommendation app that carefully toes the line in order to not bump up against Apple’s App Store rule that prohibits other apps from acting as App Stores themselves.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Artie , a startup looking to rethink the distribution of mobile games, announced today that it has raised $10 million in funding. ” The problem, in part, is game developers “looking for ways outside of Apple’s App Stores rules and restrictions.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2023

Also, cyber insurance providers are pushing companies to up their security game, and that’s mostly a good thing. from Adapty, a company that helps developers drive more revenue from their apps. million users.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

If you’ve ever played free-to-play video games on your phone, you may have seen an advert or two, including mini-games and other content with variable quality and relevance. On one of the other slides, Incymo mentions that some of the game companies have $20 million annual marketing budgets. The difference between the No.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Ryu Games , a startup that helps developers add cash tournaments to their mobile games, announced this morning it has raised $2.3 And though your humble servant is sufficiently ancient as to favor PC-based esports, younger folks are into mobile gaming esports. Ryu hopes to be present on a few dozen games this year.

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