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Riot Games and Konvoy Ventures back games publisher Carry1st in $6M Series A

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Time Stamp: May 4, 2021 8:00 AM - Modified On: May 4, 2021 - Published By:
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Africa is the last frontier for basically anything. 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. Two issues have proved detrimental to this growth: distribution and payments. With fragmented and unresolved distribution and digital payments ecosystems, game studios have found it difficult to serve African consumers and make a ton of money doing so. Carry1st is a mobile games publishing platform

Cloud gaming service Shadow taken over by OVHcloud founder

Source Node: https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/30/cloud-gaming-service-shadow-taken-over-by-ovhcloud-founder/
Time Stamp: April 30, 2021 12:40 PM - Modified On: April 30, 2021 - Published By:
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Blade, the French startup behind cloud gaming service Shadow, has been acquired by Octave Klaba’s fund following a commercial court order. Klaba is better known as the founder of OVHcloud, a French cloud hosting company. He’s acquiring Blade (and Shadow) through his investment fund Jezby Ventures — not OVHcloud. Shadow is a cloud computing service for gamers. People can pay a monthly subscription fee and gain access to a gaming PC in a data center. You can connect to this PC from your computer, a smartphone, a tablet or a smart

PortalOne raises $15M from Atari and more for a new hybrid gaming/TV show app

Source Node: https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/29/portalone-raises-15m-from-atari-and-more-for-a-new-hybrid-gaming-tv-show-app/
Time Stamp: April 29, 2021 2:06 PM - Modified On: April 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Gaming and streamed video have been two of the biggest pastime winners during the last year+ of pandemic living. Today a startup that has created an app that brings those two entertainment formats together is announcing a notable seed round of funding as it prepares to come out of closed beta. PortalOne, a hybrid gaming startup, is announcing a $15 million seed round of funding as it prepares to come out of closed beta with an app that lets people play on-demand games and also watch live shows in which

Powder Raises $14M Series A Led by Serena 

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Time Stamp: April 13, 2021 12:19 PM - Modified On: April 13, 2021 - Published By:
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French tech startup Unique Entertainment Expérience, which is doing business as Powder, announced that it has secured a $14M USD Series A financing round led by Paris-based venture capital firm Serena. Further investors include General Catalyst, Slow Ventures, Alven Capital, Banque publique d’investissement (Bpifrance) through its fund Digital Venture, Secocha Ventures, Turner Novak, and Kevin Hartz.  The startup, which was co-founded in 2018 by Stanislas Coppin (CEO), Barthélémy Kiss (Chief Growth Officer), Yannis Mangematin (Chief Content Officer), and Christian Navelot (CTO), revealed that it intends to use its Series A proceeds to “increase the pace at which we are building the video infrastructure of social gaming.”  This

Piepacker, The New Social Gaming Platform with Video Chat, Announces…

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Time Stamp: April 7, 2021 8:00 PM - Modified On: October 29, 2021 - Published By:
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This new form of online co-op play is something that fascinates us. Allowing the community to connect through a shared love of retro gaming culture through new experiences is at the heart of our mission. SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) April 08, 2021 Piepacker, the new free social gaming platform that allows users to play officially licensed retro games with friends online, is pleased to announce its initial publishers that will bring popular titles to the gaming service. Team17, Piko Interactive, Codemasters, Morphcat Games, Bitmap Bureau, Megacat Studios, Dullahan Software and Interplay

Former IBM CTO of Esports Launches Generation Esports and Video Games

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Time Stamp: March 31, 2021 2:39 PM - Modified On: March 31, 2021 - Published By:
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After working for nearly 11 years working at IBM, Bill Le Voir-Barry announced in February that he was leaving the company, though it turns out it was not a completely voluntary exit. Le Voir-Barry served as the chief technology officer of esports and gaming for nearly three years and nearly eight years in other roles at IBM. “So at the time IBM was going through some changes, and to be very frank, I was offered other positions within the company that would take me far away from esports and video

South Korean company MAXST launches spatial Augmented Reality platform ‘MAXST VPS’ for 3D mapping

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Time Stamp: February 9, 2021 2:22 PM - Modified On: February 9, 2021 - Published By:
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In Augmented Reality News  February. 9, 2021 – MAXST, a provider of an augmented reality (AR) software development kit (SDK) based in South Korea, has today announced the launch of its spatial AR platform, MAXST VPS. ‘VPS’ (Visual Positioning Service) is technology that pinpoints a user’s location by constructing a 3D spatial map for both indoor and outdoor AR content creations. According to the company, the notion that VPS substitutes GPS is an understatement, since GPS technology malfunctions during indoor use and can include location errors for outdoor operation, in

He always wanted in the game, and now Shotcall’s Gordon Li is helping fans play alongside creators

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Time Stamp: January 9, 2021 12:00 PM - Modified On: January 9, 2021 - Published By:
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(Photo courtesy of Gordon Li) Gordon Li grew up obsessed with playing video games — maybe a bit too much, in his parents’ opinion, he says. But any parent would be proud if their kid made a career out of doing something they loved, and that’s exactly what Li has done. Our latest Geek of the Week is a co-founder and the chief technology officer at Shotcall. The online marketplace and platform connects content creators with their fans by helping them play video games alongside each other. “I remember being

Südkorea: Blockchain-Start-up lanciert NFT-Marktplatz

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Time Stamp: June 10, 2020 6:00 AM - Modified On: June 10, 2020 - Published By:
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Südkorea ist für viele Gamer das Mekka der Videospiel-Industrie. PlayDapp, ein e-Sports-Service des Blockchain-Start-ups Supertree, lanciert nun einen Blockchain-basierten autonomen Marktplatz zum Non Fungable Token (NFT)-Handel von Spielgegenständen. Der Gaming-Sektor in Südkorea ist ein wichtiger Pfeiler der Wirtschaft. Nun hat das Start-up PlayDapp die NFT-Börse namens „PlayDapp MarketPLAce” ins Leben gerufen. Sie bietet der koreanischen Multi-Milliarden-Dollar-Spieleindustrie einen direkten Zugang zu digitalen Assets. Am 8. Juni verkündete das in Seoul-anässige Blockchain–Unternehmen PlayDapp, unter Unterstützung des Spiele-Entwicklers Supertree, den Launch ihrer Börse. Diese erlaubt Benutzern durch das Spiel erworbene Items oder Spielinhalte