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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

KRÜ Esports appoints Vanquish as exclusive commercial agent

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Argentine organisation KRÜ Esports has named international marketing agency Vanquish as its exclusive commercial agent. According to the release, both parties will collaborate to bolster the organisation’s commercial portfolio by securing ‘strategic alliances with brands that share its vision’. KRÜ Esports was established in October 2020 and is founded by Manchester City striker Sergio Agüero. Credit: KRU Esports RELATED: KRÜ Esports CEO Sergio Agüero discusses the team’s origin and ambitions As of this writing, the Argentine organisation currently fields a competitive roster in VALORANT and has a number of players representing the KRÜ Esports

Rockstar Shenanigans Lead to Free LA Noire, Max Payne 3 Updates

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Top GamesLA Noire has received an update almost a decade after its PC release. | Photo courtesy of Rockstar GamesRockstar Games added updates to LA Noire and Max Payne 3 on PC this week, almost a decade after both games' initial release dates; the studio also made all the DLC for both games available for free.Support for 32-bit operating systems has been "deprecated" for both games, and the updates for LA Noire don't affect the VR Case Files versions of the game.I just got angry because I can’t play #MidnightClub

Pinnacle Imaging Systems™ Announces Denali™ 3.0 Soft ISP & HDR…

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Time Stamp: April 19, 2021 8:00 PM - Modified On: October 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Pinnacle Imaging's Denali 3.0 HDR Soft ISP is Available on the Xilinx Kria SOM and AI Starter Kit “The beauty of our programmable ISP on the Xilinx platform, is that it is easy for us to customize it to meet specific customers’ needs or adapt it to any sensor type, even those with non-traditional color filter arrays." - Alfred Zee, CEO of Pinnacle Imaging Systems SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) April 20, 2021 Today, Pinnacle Imaging Systems™, a developer of Image Signal Processors (ISP) and High Dynamic Range (HDR) video solutions, announced

Historic Sci-fi Legend to make Gaming Debut in John Carter®:…

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John Carter is the original fantasy action hero, thrilling readers and fans well before the likes of Flash Gordon, Superman and Luke Skywalker. Most superheroes have already made their transition into the gaming world; it is high time that John Carter makes his debut. –Frazer Nash, FNCPR TARZANA, Calif. (PRWEB) March 30, 2021 Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., today announced that its team is working with FNCPR to develop and publish the video game entitled "John Carter: Warlord of Mars." Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., manages and licenses the creative works of

10 Things We Want To See In Project 007

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Time Stamp: March 23, 2021 8:09 AM - Modified On: October 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Though there have certainly been quite a few excellent James Bond video games over the years – including the likes of GoldenEye 007, Nightfire, The World is Not Enough, and Everything or Nothing – by and large, it’s hard to shake the feeling that Bond hasn’t made the kind of mark on games that he has potential to. That said, it certainly seems like the future looks brighter than the recent past. Hitman developers IO Interactive have confirmed that they’re working on a new original James Bond game, currently being called Project 007, and the two seem like a perfect fit on

Zynga Buys Torchlight 3 Devs To Build New RPG

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[embedded content] It’s the time of the year for major acquisitions, apparently. This time, it’s Zynga and the company purchased is Echtra Games, the developer of Torchlight III. The amount of money exchanged hasn’t been disclosed, but this is supposedly a sign that one of the world’s most successful mobile developers is hoping to make inroads into the console market. Even if you’re not recognizing Zynga’s name, you’ve definitely heard of one of their games. They’re the company behind Farmville and Words with Friends. According to reports and the word

Rivalry raises $20 million for sports and esports online betting

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GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. April 28-29, 2021 Register Now Rivalry has raised $20 million for its business of sports and esports betting. The company has a mobile and PC platform that makes it easy to place bets on sports and esports matches. Rivalry’s average customer is 25 years old, and the company is going after esports and sports fans who are under 30. At the moment, Rivalry has an offshore gambling license with the Isle of Man, which

Sports Stocks Approach Breakout Potential (OTC US: BTDG) ($CHDN) ($WWE) ($MSGS)

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Time Stamp: November 25, 2020 8:54 AM - Modified On: November 25, 2020 - Published By:
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The live sports space has been a key story in the process of the pandemic. Now, with multiple vaccine candidates moving toward emergency use authorization, that reality is heightened. Normality is nearing a return. In the past three weeks, we have seen COVID-19 vaccine candidates from Pfizer/BioNtech, Moderna, and Oxford/AstraZeneca all report strong data and promising safety/efficacy profiles, which shapes the market’s view and discounting mechanism powerfully. Now, we are seeing new announcements from both Russia and China ringing the same bell. The reopening trade is on in a big

ZenSports closes additional $1.46M seed funding for its mobile peer-to-peer sports betting marketplace

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Time Stamp: September 15, 2020 4:39 PM - Modified On: September 15, 2020 - Published By:
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We featured ZenSports back in February after the mobile sports betting startup closed over $770K in seed funding. A little over six months later, the San Francisco-based ZenSports announced it has raised an additional $1.46M Seed round of funding to expand into the United States, as well as to continue to grow its international presence. Backers include previous investors LAUNCH (led by Jason Calacanis), as well as new investors Cube Magic Gaming and other individual angels. Founded in 2016 by Etan Mizrahi-Shalom and Mark Thomas, the San Francisco, California-based ZenSports is a mobile