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Legionfarm, pairing pro gamers with amateurs, raises $6 million Series A

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Legionfarm, the gaming platform that lets gamers play with pro players in their favorite games, has today announced the close of a $6 million Series A round. Investors in the round include SVB, Y Combinator, Scrum VC, Kevin Lin, Altair Capital, Ankur Nagpal and more. Legionfarm launched out of Y Combinator at the beginning of last year with a mission to give pro players a way to generate income and amateur players the chance to get better by playing with a pro coach. It started out with an à la

Sequoia Games looks to capitalize on NBA Top Shot fever with an AR tabletop game

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It’s the golden age of collectibles and legacy institutions are looking to move beyond trading cards, embracing new tech that brings the fandom together online. Sequoia Games, a new game studio launching out of stealth, is aiming for a hit with its tabletop AR game that’s looking to find an audience in a post-Top Shot world. With a game that seems to be trading cards meets Catan meets NFTs meets augmented reality, Flex NBA is aiming to capture some of the magic that Dapper Labs did with NBA Top Shot,

The Last Gameboard raises $4M to ship its digital tabletop gaming platform

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The tabletop gaming industry has exploded over the last few years as millions discovered or rediscovered its joys, but it too is evolving — and The Last Gameboard hopes to be the venue for that evolution. The digital tabletop platform has progressed from crowdfunding to $4M seed round, and having partnered with some of the biggest names in the industry, plans to ship by the end of the year. As the company’s CEO and co-founder Shail Mehta explained in a TC Early Stage pitch-off earlier this year, The Last Gameboard

Metafy adds $5.5M to its seed round as the market for games coaching grows

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This morning Metafy, a distributed startup building a marketplace to match gamers with instructors, announced that it has closed an additional $5.5 million to its $3.15 million seed round. Call it a seed-2, seed-extension or merely a baby Series A; Forerunner Ventures, DCM and Seven Seven Six led the round as a trio. Metafy’s model is catching on with its market. According to its CEO Josh Fabian, the company has grown from incorporation to gross merchandise volume (GMV) of $76,000 in around nine months. That’s quick. The startup is building

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

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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

10 Best Farming PlayStation 4 Video Games

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Looking for some games that allow you to escape the bustling city for a life on a farm? We got you covered. In this list, we’re going to highlight some of our favorite farming video games that you can pick up and play on the PlayStation 4 today. From wacky farming games to more realism simulators, here are some of the best available right now. #10 Harvest Moon Harvest Moon was a pretty massive video game IP back in the day although there are a lot of people out there

holoride raises €10 million in Series A funding for its automotive XR solution, plans for market launch in summer 2022

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[embedded content][embedded content]In Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality News April 22, 2021 – holoride, a provider of technology that combines navigational and car data with XR, has today announced that it has completed its Series A investing round, raising EUR €10 million in first closing and earning the company a EUR €30 million valuation. The round was led by Terranet AB, developers of advanced driver-assistance software (ADAS) that specifically addresses safety and comfort through sensor technology. Other co-investors in the round included a group of Chinese financial and automotive technology

Gaming infrastructure startup Pragma raises $12M from Greylock, Mark Pincus and others

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Pragma is building what it calls a “backend as a service,” providing ready-made infrastructure to developers of online, live service games. And it’s announcing today that it has raised $12 million in Series A funding. The round was led by David Thacker at Greylock, with participation from Zynga founder Mark Pincus, Oculus founder Nate Mitchell and Cloudera founder Amr Awadallah, along with previous investors Upfront Ventures and Advancit Capital. Amy Chang, who sold her business intelligence startup Accompany to Cisco, is joining Pragma’s board of directors. Co-founder and CEO Eden

40 Best Video Games For Kids

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Video games can sometimes get a bad stigma especially when it comes to children. There’s a number of titles available in the market developed and intended for a mature audience, however, there’s a plethora of video game titles completely suitable for kids. If you’re looking to get a new video game title to enjoy with the youngsters or if you’re seeking a new thrilling video game for a younger audience to enjoy on their own then we suggest checking out these titles below. These are not ranked in any particular

DWG KIA Partners With Digital Marketing Company CUE Cultural Innovation

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South Korean esports organization DWG KIA announced Friday that the company has signed a partnership deal with China’s digital marketing company CUE Cultural Innovation.  Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. As a part of the deal, CUE Cultural Innovation will become the exclusive Chinese agency of the team, and will be in charge of all business and commercial operations in mainland China. In addition, the partnership will also help promote cultural communication between China and the South Korean esports industry. DWG KIA is one of the most successful