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Footage of Lost Sonic Game Sonic 3DX Appears Online

Sonic 3DX was only ever released on a single model of mobile phone. It’s no secret that Sega has produced a lot of Sonic games over the years, including several spin-offs that saw varying degrees of critical and commercial success. One of the most successful Sonic spin-offs are, naturally, racing games, because no matter where Sonic is or what he’s doing, a blue hedgehog has to go fast. While the Sonic racing games never achieved enormous popularity, it did spawn a lot of games, including a mobile game called Sonic

‘It’s Trash’: Glow Up Games CXO Latoya Peterson on the State of Diversity in Games

Latoya Peterson is tired of the games industry ignoring Black women, and now she's ready to do something about it. | Photo courtesy of Glow Up GamesThe video game industry is as prone to systemic oppression as any other. Developers of color, and perhaps particularly Black developers, face an uphill battle for employment, let alone creative expression. With this series of features, DBLTAP hopes to highlight the creations of Black developers working to tell their own stories through games in this monthly series. Check out our previous entries here.Issa Dee

Riot Games and Konvoy Ventures back games publisher Carry1st in $6M Series A

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

MrBeast to Surprise MTG Arena Players With $50K in Cash

by Jason Parker in Magic: The Gathering Arena | Apr, 19th 2021 That’s right, MrBeast is going to be working with MTG Arena this week! Friday Night Magic has been a long-standing institution for MTG players. Players come together on Friday nights at card shops to compete for card packs, as well as pride. But what if there was some serious cash on the side? This will undoubtedly get many people playing FNM if it means MrBeast is throwing some major cash around in MTG Arena. It doesn’t matter how you play

FrontSight Capital Fund invests $1m into Singaporean organisation RSG

FrontSight Capital Fund, an esports private equity fund managed by Singaporean firm Tembusu Partners, has announced an investment of $1m (∼£725,415) into Singaporean esports organisation RSG. The funding will be used to continue RSG’s investment in local talent cultivation, along with a new focus to establish brand-new training facilities for its teams. The organisation currently fields teams across a number of titles including Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, League of Legends: Wild Rift, and Street Fighter. Photo credit: RSG RELATED: RSG delivers Pizza Hut partnership According to the release, FrontSight Capital

The Technology Powering The Boom In Online Gaming

We take a look at the increased popularity of online gaming. Sales from the global gaming industry reached over $125 billion in 2018 and are expected to grow to $300 billion by 2025. This is a booming industry that isn’t going anywhere, and thanks to the parallel popularity of online gambling (which harnesses and utilizes many of the same technologies of online gaming, selling the concept to a broader audience) it is one almost everyone can engage with. Online Casitabi casinos use many of the same graphics, concepts and strategies

Pllay adds $1M in funding for skill-based video game wagering

GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. April 28-29, 2021 Register Now Pllay has raised $1 million in funding for its skill-based video game wagering platform. Pllay enables gamers to wager on 1-on-1 duels. Viridian Equity Partners and investor Gayle Jennings-O’Byrne led the new round. The funding comes in addition to the $3 million that Pllay raised in November, when it announced that it raised money from James McGuckin’s Screen Play Ventures and other angel investors including NBA All-Star Bradley Beal, Obsidian

Sony Announces New Changes to its Leadership Structure

Sony is today announcing several changes to its leadership structure designed to “continue to drive growth and innovation” following the recent departure of former deputy president John Tsuyoshi Kodera, who has since moved to a new position at Sony Group Corporation. New promotions and changes include the promotion of Hideaki Nishino to SVP, platform experience. He will oversee network engineering and operations, R&D, design, data strategy, and operations in addition to managing Product and Platform development. A press release today offers a brief overview of Nishino’s tenure with Sony: Nishino

A Remake Of The Princess Bride Is Coming, But It’s Not What You Expect

A new version the iconic 1987 fantasy movie The Princess Bride is being made, and it has one of the biggest celebrity casts we've ever seen and an unusual setup.Juno director Jason Reitman is directing the movie, which was filmed at each actor's home using their own mobile phone due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film will be released on the nascent streaming service Quibi in chapters, the first of which will debut on June 29, according to Variety.Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner--who are married in real life--are playing the