Fundraising

Concussion Legacy Foundation Canada to Host $10,000 Fortnite…

TORONTO (PRWEB) July 01, 2021 Concussion Legacy Foundation Canada (CLFC) is proud to announce its upcoming Brains and Brawn campaign. The campaign will feature a two-week livestream fundraiser along with a two-day online Fortnite tournament with total prizing of $10,000. CLFC is a Registered Canadian Charity whose mission is to advance the study, treatment, and prevention of the effects of brain trauma in Canadian athletes, military personnel and other at-risk groups. “Teaching young people about brain health and performance, by leveraging the powerful engaging medium of video games, can have

Cyan Planet passes fundraising goal to create a Digital Twin of the ocean for exploration in VR

[embedded content][embedded content]In Virtual Reality News June 16, 2021 – Cyan Planet, an international immersive media studio connecting audiences with marine organizations with an aim of promoting action for marine conservation, has recently announced that it has secured funding to start the creation of a digital twin of the ocean. The company’s flagship project ‘How is the Water’ raised more than USD $60,000 from over 500 backers worldwide and is now in its last days on Kickstarter. The How is the Water digital twin of the ocean aims to make

StreamElements partners with It Gets Better, donates $25,000, and launches Pride-themed charity merch

Content creation tool and service provider StreamElements is partnering with the It Gets Better Project and has announced a dedicated plan to highlight and support LGBTQ+ creators throughout Pride month and beyond.  With this initiative, SteamElements will be donating $25,000 to the It Gets Better Project, a nonprofit that aims to uplift, empower, and connect LGBTQ+ youth worldwide, and is partnering with it to help support its mission long term.  [embedded content] “LGBTQ+ youth have long found community and connection through gaming—perhaps more so over the last year than ever

Epic Games v. Apple: The start of the next big antitrust war for the iOS developer

It was a big day on March 12, 2018, in Cary, North Carolina, as Epic Games geared up for its next big announcement: Fortnite was coming to mobile. The battle royale title had grown significantly over the preceding months, transforming Epic into one of the biggest companies in the world.  The mobile launch added another layer to that rise and tapped into a larger audience than many PC or console games had lured in. The cultural phenomenon became apparent and Fortnite soon landed merchandising, music, and film collaborations, from hosting

Exordium Receives $500,000 Investment from Polyient for the…

LUXEMBOURG (PRWEB) April 21, 2021 Exordium, a triple-A game publisher, today announces a $500,000 investment from Polyient Ventures, an investment group focused on virtual economies, as part of its ongoing security token offering (STO) for the revolutionary sci-fi massively multiplayer online (MMO) strategy game Infinite Fleet. Samson Mow, creator of Infinite Fleet and CEO of its developing studio Pixelmatic, said, “There’s an extremely powerful use case for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in gaming, as it gives in-game assets easy transferability outside of the official in-game store. Polyient’s platform has seen remarkable

Pixelmatic Releases New Game Trailer for MMO Infinite Fleet Featuring…

HONG KONG (PRWEB) March 23, 2021 Game development studio Pixelmatic today announced the release of a new game trailer for revolutionary sci-fi massively multiplayer online (MMO) strategy game Infinite Fleet. Titled Counterattack, the trailer features some of the protagonists of the Infinite Fleet saga, voiced by an all-star cast of voice artists from Dragon Ball Z, Nier: Automata, and Attack on Titan, and is accentuated by the musical work of The Transformers: The Movie composer Vince DiCola. Set in the year 2150, the trailer presents the continuation of the story

AbleGamers Foundation to Hold Second Round of SpawnTogether Fundraising

Top GamesThe AbleGamers Foundation's second round of fundraising for its SpawnTogether initiative takes place this weekend. | Photo courtesy of AlbeGamersThe AbleGamers Foundation will hold its second round of fundraising for the "SpawnTogether" initiative this weekend, bringing a long list of influencers together in the effort.The initiative aims to raise $1 million by Sept. 15, the 41st birthday of AbleGamers COO and public face Steven Spohn, in order to ensure the foundation can continue its work even in his absence.#SpawnTogether is all of us working together as a community to

Lepricon Channels Luck of the Irish with St. Paddy’s Day Launch

Gaming is the first industry that will utilize blockchain technology to empower its community of users, an essential aspect of Lepricon’s blockchain gaming platform. Using in-game currencies, verifiably scarce items, and Defi principles, Lepricon is innovating in the space to reimagine the gaming experience, including how users can benefit monetarily from this new style of gaming.  To bring a little extra luck to its platform and users, Lepricon will launch on St. Patrick’s day, with its L3P token opening for trade on Uniswap. Lepricon has already garnered massive interest from