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Romero Games Announces Empire of Sin Expansion

There’s a new trailer, too. Developer Romero Games and publisher Paradox Interactive announced Make It Count, the first expansion for Empire of Sin. Make It Count will release on all platforms alongside the free Precinct update. The Precinct update introduces a Precinct management mechanic, adds new ways to win, and introduces mod support. Mods will be available to play at launch. “After all the work we put into patching the game in the past few months, we’re ready to explore new aspects of the game to give players more content

$400M gaming VC fund Bitkraft teams up with Delphi on blockchain gaming

Gaming-focused venture capital fund Bitkraft Ventures has partnered with crypto industry research firm Delphi Digital in order to invest in related projects.The collaboration, announced on April 29, will allow Bitkraft to increase its focus on investments in firms that use blockchain technology in addition to crypto assets and economics.Bitkraft was founded in 2015 and has more than $400 million in assets under management with more than 50 investments in companies such as Epic Games, BitFry, and Fuze TV. In August 2020, the company raised $165 million to invest in digital

Lamborghini to Sponsor Rocket League Championship Series Event

Tobias Seck Tobias is a writer-turned-business analyst passionate about helping TEO's readers keep up to speed and understand the financial movements and business strategies within the esports ecosystem. After four years of analyzing the industry in-depth for The Esports Observer he started sharing his insights directly with readers in Summer 2019 reporting on the economics of esports. Coinsmart. Beste Bitcoin-Börse in Europa Source: https://esportsobserver.com/lamborghini-rocket-league-championship/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lamborghini-rocket-league-championship

Hyper-Casual Games: Trends and How to Reach Scale

This article originally appeared on Hackernoon and is reproduced with permission. Hyper-casual games have captured the mobile games industry’s interest ever since the incredible meteoric rise (and fall) of Flappy Bird in 2014. In 2018, the total mobile games market stood at $50 billion, of which $10 billion came from in-game advertising and the rest from in-app purchases. In that same year, AppAnnie reported that hyper-casual games made up 53.4% of the top 30 game installs in the US and over 27% in Japan and Korea, respectively. Fast forward to

CSL Esports partners with the Singleton Foundation

North American collegiate esports firm CSL Esports has announced a partnership with the Singleton Foundation For Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship to expand its scholastic curriculum. Image credit: CSL Esports/ THE Singleton Foundation RELATED:  Banco do Brasil partners with Visa to launch BB Game Series As a result of the partnership, the collegiate esports firm and the Singleton Foundation will debut Venture Valley, a new multiplayer business-building game where players put their business savvy against each other, at CSL Esports’ virtual esports summer camp programme. “Education is a core component of CSL

InSTREAMLY Secures $1.32M Seed Round to Expand into New Markets 

Tobias Seck Tobias is a writer-turned-business analyst passionate about helping TEO's readers keep up to speed and understand the financial movements and business strategies within the esports ecosystem. After four years of analyzing the industry in-depth for The Esports Observer he started sharing his insights directly with readers in Summer 2019 reporting on the economics of esports. Coinsmart. Beste Bitcoin-Börse in Europa Source: https://esportsobserver.com/instreamly-secures-1-32m-seed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=instreamly-secures-1-32m-seed

How to make a crappy CS:GO team in seven easy steps

Hey future GMs, here’s a bunch of handy tips to run your org out of the esport in no time! Follow these easy steps and your team will be pristine meme potential before you know it. There is no such thing as bad publicity and any buyout can be justified – as long as wins on the server are optional, you’ll be the best in the business before you know it!Don’t clear out the deadwoodAn easy way to capsize your team before even getting started is to acquiesce to the

Xbox Game Pass Subscribers Play More Games, And Spend More On Them, Says Microsoft

Sarah Bond breaks down how much more time users play with the service. Xbox Game Pass was already quite the deal, and now with the purchase of Bethesda by Microsoft, it’s about the get even more loaded with content. Ever since the service launched, Microsoft has shifted to it being the focus of the Xbox brand, even now getting third party titles from major publishers day and date with the retail release. It also seems that those that use it also are using it a lot. As reported by Forbes,

What is ChainGuardians? Anime-style Gaming NFT

ChainGuardians is a game with an anime-cryptocurrency theme, backed with NFT in-game assets. Have you ever thought about bringing your gaming assets to life? Well, who hasn’t? Anyone who has invested his time and energy into his favorite games gets that feeling, wishing they could carry their rewards and assets over to other games – or more, convert them into real-world assets – money! While game lovers have given up on the idea that their gaming efforts could be transferred through different games, brazen gaming companies have stood up to restore