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New Star Citizen Video Shows Massive New Caves as Crowdfunding Passes $349 Million

Star Citizen is continuing to make progress toward the next alpha numbered 3.13, and today a new video shows a major component of the update. We’re getting massive planetary caves designed so that they can be entered by vehicles or even starships, which is definitely interesting for the more daring pilots out there. The second part of the video also showcases the upcoming mining components that will let players customize their mining experience. You can check out the video below. [embedded content] In other Star Citizen news, the crowdfunding total passed $349 million today, and

Tilt Five Secures $7.5M Series A to Revolutionize Gaming Through 3D…

Tilt Five Promo Photo “While the tech giants invest billions in far-off solutions, this investment expands our ability to deliver on a proven set of technologies resulting in an affordable, social and wearable device,” said Jeri Ellsworth, Tilt Five CEO. SAN JOSE, Calif. (PRWEB) October 28, 2020 Tilt Five, an entertainment system provider that uses proprietary augmented reality (AR) glasses, a game board, and a wand controller to engage players in tabletop and video games in 3D holographic environments, today announced that it has secured $7.5 million in Series A

SIP Global Partners Leads $7.5 Million Series A Funding For Tilt Five,…

NEW YORK (PRWEB) October 28, 2020 SIP Global Partners, a Japan-US headquartered VC firm that invests in transformative global technology, today announced it is leading a $7.5 million Series A round for Tilt Five. Tilt Five is an entertainment system provider that uses proprietary augmented reality (AR) glasses, a game board and a wand controller to engage players in tabletop and video games in 3D holographic environments. As part of the investment, General Partner of SIP Global Partners Jeffrey Smith will join Tilt Five’s Board of Directors. Other participants in

TouchArcade Game of the Week: ‘Songbringer’

TouchArcade Rating:Mobile is home to a bunch of great original games, but equally important is the huge number of excellent games that have been ported over from other platforms. Back in 2015 Wizard Fu Games successfully crowdfunded a project for an idea that was essentially “What if the original The Legend of Zelda was different every time you played it?" A couple of years later that project, called Songbringer, launched on desktop and consoles with a Nintendo Switch port following in 2018. One of the original stretch goals of the

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Passes $100M in Total Tournament Prize Money

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has joined an extremely exclusive club of esports which have awarded more than $100M in tournament prize money, according to data from Esports Earnings. The game’s lifetime total at time of writing sits at $100.09M USD awarded across 5,160 tournaments. CS:GO joins its sister Valve title Dota 2, which is the only game on record to have awarded more than $200M in tournament payouts, due in large part to the high figures accrued by its crowdfunded annual championship, The International.  Valve provides comparatively little prize money to

Annie of the Stars Announced as the Brand New Playable Fighter Coming to ‘Skullgirls Mobile’ this Year

TouchArcade Rating:This past February we received some fairly earthshaking news when it was announced that a brand new playable character would be arriving for the Skullgirls Mobile (Free) fighting game. Why was this such a big deal? Well Skullgirls Mobile is an adaptation of the console and PC fighter Skullgirls 2nd Encore which was developed by Lab Zero and published by Autumn Games, and for the most part it’s been content complete for more than half a decade. When developer Hidden Variable adapted the game for mobile, they were working

Infinite Fleet Raises $3.1 Million in Oversubscribed Round Led by…

HONG KONG (PRWEB) August 06, 2020 Infinite Fleet, the revolutionary sci-fi massively multiplayer online (MMO) strategy game created by Blockstream CSO and Pixelmatic CEO Samson Mow has completed a funding round totaling $3.1 million through a private security token offering (STO). Infinite Fleet is an online strategy game in which thousands of players command fleets of customizable spaceships and play cooperatively to fend off an alien threat, leaving their legacy in the game’s lore via its unique directed narrative feature. The game draws inspiration from space real-time strategy (RTS) and

iiRcade Announces Strategic Partnership with SEGA to Bring Multiple…

It’s a great honor to partner with such an iconic video game brand in SEGA, CHICAGO (PRWEB) July 31, 2020 iiRcade, Inc. the ultimate connected arcade machine that allows gamers of all ages to own and play their favorite retro and modern arcade games at home that’s currently available for pre-order on Kickstarter, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with SEGA. The partnership will bring seven SEGA titles to the home arcade, which will be available to purchase through the iiRcade game store. The titles include: Shadow Dancer, Space

Adventure Classic ‘Beneath a Steel Sky’ Sequel ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’ is this Week’s Apple Arcade Release

TouchArcade Rating:While Revolution Software’s cult-classic adventure game Beneath a Steel Sky originally launched all the way back in 1994, it feels like it’s been just about as long that we’ve been waiting for a sequel. The developers behind the game have hinted at a sequel here and there over the years, but it wasn’t until Revolution was crowdfunding a sequel to one of their other revered adventure game series that it actually became a reality. A Beneath the Steel Sky sequel was one of the stretch goals during the Broken

iiRcade, the Ultimate Home Arcade for Retro and Modern Gaming,…

The great thing about iiRcade is we will constantly be adding new games to our device and the list that we have now is only the beginning. CHICAGO (PRWEB) June 23, 2020 iiRcade, the ultimate connected arcade machine that allows gamers of all ages to own and play their favorite officially licensed retro arcade games and modern games in true arcade style at home, today launched on Kickstarter with special early bird prices starting at $299. “The day has finally arrived, and we couldn’t be more excited,” said Jong Shin,