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Apiary Capital completes Access Creative College deal as Boris Johnson’s brother joins as board chairman

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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

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EA, Pokemon Company, And More Game Companies Donating To Black Lives Matter And Related Causes

After protests erupted in cities all over the United States in response to the police killing of George Floyd, a large number of studios and other game companies have made donations to the Black Lives Matter and other organizations like the NAACP and Color of Change. Companies from all corners of the industry have made contributions while encouraging others to do the same. Pokemon Go developer Niantic is donating proceeds from Pokemon Go Fest 2020 ticket sales, committing to a minimum of $5 million, to "Black gaming and AR creators

FTL Composer Is Donating All Weekend Proceeds To NAACP

FTL and Into the Breach composer Ben Prunty is donating all soundtrack sales from this weekend to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and various community bail funds across the country. Fans can pay-what-they-want for music across his entire catalogue today through the end of the weekend, with proceeds being donated on Monday. Prunty's catalogue includes music for FTL, Into the Breach, Darkside Detective, Gravity Ghosts, as well as many other tracks and albums. His full catalogue can be found on his Bandcamp page. Prunty, who also made music for Subnautica:

Black Girl Gamers’ Wellness Week Streams Are Underway, Don’t Miss Them

Black Girl Gamers, a collective of black women content creators and streamers, is currently running their Wellness Week series of streams and will continue their fundraising efforts until June 7. Throughout this period (and every week), you can catch a number of different streamers on the Black Girl Gamers Twitch channel--you can see the schedule below so you don't miss out on their streams. Wellness Week is an opportunity for their audience to come to a chill, relaxing stream, but it's also a concerted effort to raise funds for Color

GCX Has Added DrLupo As A Board Member

The Gaming Community Expo (GCX) has added well-known streamer, Benjamin "DrLupo" Lupo, as a board member. The Florida-based event won't have a physical setup this year, but will go ahead with online fundraising and a digital showcase later this summer. A video was released on the official GCX Twitter account earlier this week, narrated by Lupo himself. It confirmed that he would be joining the event's board and working closely with the Rare Drop organizing team on the GCX experience in the future. Lupo acknowledged that while the event would

World of Warships raises over $100K for Stack Up’s Operation Lifeboat

Wargaming and Stack Up have banded together to raise money for military veterans, announcing that Operation Lifeboat has raised over $100,000 in five weeks. There are a number of honorable charities in the gaming space. Among them is Stack Up, the team devoted to raising money for military veterans. Earlier this year, the team at Stack Up banded together with Wargaming to embark on a five-week charity campaign for World of Warships. Dubbed Operation Lifeboat, World of Warships offered up a special in-game bundle with proceeds going to Stack Up's

CD Projekt RED donates nearly $1 million to COVID-19 relief efforts in Poland

The Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher developers have put forth several monetary donations to aid in the fight against the coronavirus. Now that COVID-19 is a clear problem and a worldwide pandemic, efforts have begun in full to contain and curtail further spread of the illness, especially in the video game industry. Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt RED is the latest to join in these efforts. The developer recently announced it will be putting nearly one million dollars towards coronavirus relief efforts in its native Poland. CD Projekt RED