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Tribe Gaming receives strategic investment from Spurs Sports and Entertainment

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Time Stamp: July 28, 2021 10:18 PM - Modified On: July 28, 2021 - Published By:
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Spurs Sports & Entertainment, which owns the NBA franchise San Antonio Spurs among other teams, has made a minority investment into Tribe Gaming. Tribe is a mobile esports organization that was founded in 2017 and is based in San Antonio, Texas. Tribe’s founder and CEO Patrick “Chief Pat” Carney said the investment will open roads for multiple long-term collaborations with the sporting and entertainment company and will help the organization “dominate the world of mobile esports.” This includes “cross-content collabs, co-branded marketing efforts, talent and audience crossovers, and shared strategic

Tencent-Owned TiMi Studio Group Opens A New Studio In Montreal

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Time Stamp: July 20, 2021 11:53 AM - Modified On: October 29, 2021 - Published By:
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TiMi Studio Group has recently opened a new studio in Montreal. As reported by Gamesindustry.biz, the Montreal studio is the third location of the Studio Group in North America. TiMi Studios group is owned by the Shenzen-based giant, Tencent. TiMi Studio is behind many popular mobile games such as Call of Duty: Mobile, Honor of Kings, and Pokemon Unite. The Montreal studio is reportedly working on a new AAA title which will include live-service and open-world elements. The new studio will be working in tandem with TiMi Seattle, which is

Ordnance Survey partners with PRELOADED to create world-scale Augmented Reality game

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Time Stamp: July 19, 2021 3:24 AM - Modified On: July 19, 2021 - Published By:
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In Augmented Reality News  July 19, 2021 – Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping service, has recently formally announced that it is working with London-based games studio PRELOADED to develop a world-scale Augmented Reality (AR) game that will be designed to engage family audiences with the outdoors.  The game will be built upon Ordnance Survey’s extensive mapping and will use geospatial data to deliver contextual experiences that drive exploration of the world. We covered the contract award, which was announced in November last year, however this is the first time

Garena Free Fire Becomes First Mobile BR Game to Hit 1 Billion Downloads

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Time Stamp: July 16, 2021 1:22 PM - Modified On: October 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Garena Free Fire is celebrating a record-breaking milestone today as the developer/publisher has announced that it has become the first mobile battle royale title to achieve 1 billion lifetime downloads via the Google Play store. The news comes by way of a message over on LinkedIn, which reads as follows: Free Fire has been downloaded more than 1 billion times on the Google Play Store! Free Fire is the first mobile battle royale game to achieve this milestone, and joins a small group of mobile games who have done so.This

Free Fire hits 1 billion downloads on Google Play Store

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Time Stamp: July 16, 2021 6:10 AM - Modified On: July 16, 2021 - Published By:
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Free Fire became the first mobile battle royale game to reach the one billion downloads mark on Google Play Store. This news comes after a very exciting year for Garena’s game, full of records and impressive numbers. To celebrate the achievement, an in-game event will be launched in August, together with Free Fire’s fourth anniversary. Free Fire started breaking its own records in 2020, when it reached 60 million daily users in March, 80 million daily users in May and 100 million daily users in August. These numbers helped the

Netflix Reportedly to Offer Video Games, Hires Ex-EA Exec

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Time Stamp: July 15, 2021 12:00 PM - Modified On: July 15, 2021 - Published By:
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Top GamesNetflix has reportedly begun an expansion into video game development. / Photo courtesy of NetflixNetflix has hired a former Electronic Arts and Zynga executive, Mike Verdu, to lead the company's push into video games, per a report from Bloomberg.Verdu will take on the role of vice president of game development, reporting directly to Netflix's chief operating officer, Greg Peters, per Netflix. He was previously a Facebook vice president in charge of bringing games and other software to Oculus platforms.Netflix plans to offer its first games through its streaming platform

Ordnance Survey partners with PRELOADED to create its first-ever…

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Time Stamp: July 13, 2021 8:00 PM - Modified On: October 29, 2021 - Published By:
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  Ordnance Survey and PRELOADED are partnering to create an augmented reality (AR) game for families to play in the great outdoors. We’re at a point where advancements in AR and geospatial technologies allow us to connect with our real world in completely new and meaningful ways. We’re so excited to work with Ordnance Survey to bring the true potential of location-based play to family audiences in the UK and beyond. LONDON (PRWEB)July 14, 2021 Ordnance Survey, GB’s national mapping service, is working with BAFTA-winning games studio PRELOADED to develop

This limited-edition Super Mario smartwatch will run you $2,150

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Time Stamp: July 13, 2021 2:00 AM - Modified On: July 13, 2021 - Published By:
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Those who’ve followed Nintendo with any sort of frequency over the years know the gaming giant has a tendency to be extremely protective with its IP. Ultimately, it’s probably for the best that the market wasn’t flooded with cheap Mario knickknacks the way it easily could have been. In recent years, however, the company has seemingly loosened its approach, more readily embracing brand partnerships in ways it has shunned in the past. Heck, we’ve even gotten a bunch of mobile games and a theme park out of the deal. Today,

Warner Bros. reportedly looking into selling NetherRealm Studios, TT Games, and other studios

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Time Stamp: July 10, 2021 2:48 PM - Modified On: July 10, 2021 - Published By:
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The Warner Bros. gaming division may reportedly still sell off some portions of its gaming division despite the recent Warner Bros. Discover merger, according to Jez Corden, a Senior Editor for Windows Central who focuses mostly on gaming-related content. Corden has reportedly seen documents that mention WB is considering selling off both NetherRealm Studios and TT Games, studios best known for developing Mortal Kombat and multiple Lego titles, respectively.  On his podcast, The Xbox Two, Corden revealed that he saw internal documents that mentioned NetherRealm and TT among the studios

EA Strikes Deal For Potential Ads In Video Games

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Time Stamp: July 2, 2021 1:04 PM - Modified On: October 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Advertisements in video games are usually something we are used to seeing in different mobile games or even free-to-play titles. It’s a bit more of the norm there but that might soon start bleeding over to the likes of home console video game releases. This comes from a new deal that EA struck with an advertisement company called PlayerWON with the parent company being Simulmedia. From there, this deal could mean more ads will start flooding video games if they prove to be a moneymaker for EA. Of course, this