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VR Gaming Ads: Testing the Waters; An Interview with Faultline

I recently had the pleasure to be interviewed by Rafi Cohen for Faultline Magazine. Please find the full piece below.In its pursuit of the mobile gaming market, PubNative, a German app-focused supply-side platform (SSP), is tentatively exploring the possibilities of VR. Speaking to Faultline this week, the company’s founder and CEO, Ionut Ciobotaru admitted that his “interest is just exploratory.”“For now, VR just doesn’t have the critical mass to be monetizable for ad companies,” he added.The company has set gaming as its next key market for growth in the world

Enjin Pumps After Announced Integration with Aave and Bancor

Enjin Coin (ENJ) has seen an increase of 23.8% following an update that enables the cryptocurrency to be added in Aave’s DeFi protocol. After the announcement, ENJ went from $0.172 to $0.214 in less than two days. As of press time, the gaming asset has retraced back to $0.198 as trading volume appears to be in a downtrend. Enjin and Aave The Enjin platform enables gamers to earn ENJ by playing the platform’s growing collection of games and applications. They can then sell these game items in the Enjin Marketplace,

SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Biped’, ‘Pool Slide Story’, and Today’s Other New Releases, the Latest Sales Featuring ‘Cave Story+’ and More

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for July 2nd, 2020. In today’s article, we’ve got summaries of all of the latest releases. There aren’t as many as we usually see on Thursdays, but there are some news items and good discounts to help round things out. Well, no sense hanging around the opening paragraph waiting for things to happen. Let’s get down to business! News ‘Minecraft Dungeons: Jungle Awakens’ DLC Now Available Minecraft Dungeons came out not that long ago, and the consensus seems to be that

Lord Of The Rings Online Celebrates Aragorn And Arwen’s Wedding With Special Quests And Gifts

Originally released in 2007, The Lord of the Rings Online continues to receive new update some 13 years later. The latest one invites players to attend the wedding of Middle-earth heroes Aragorn and Arwen. Just like in the book, Aragorn and Arwen will celebrate their marriage in Minas Tirith, and you can attend this joyous event and earn special bonuses for doing so.The new event is called Epic Volume V, Book 1: A Time of Celebration, and it runs through July 20. Players will automatically receive a quest that provides

The Winds Of Winter: George RR Martin Is Making “Steady Progress”

For five seasons, Game of Thrones was an adaptation of George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy novel series. But by Season 6, the series has caught up with the books, so--for better or worse--the series' showrunners finished the story themselves, with some guidance from Martin. But that doesn't mean fans won't eventually get another installment of the books. Martin has been working on the next volume, titled The Winds of Winter, for several years, and has now provided a new update on its progress, saying he is making progress and that

SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘New Pokemon Snap’ Coming to Switch, ‘Namco Museum Archives’ and Today’s Other New Releases, Plus the Latest Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 18th, 2020. The Pokemon Presents video yesterday had lots of news in it, but only some of it was relevant to the Switch. We talk about that before heading into the giant list of new releases that hit the eShop today. After that, we catch up on all the incoming and outgoing sales to finish things up. Let’s snap to it! News ‘New Pokemon Snap’ Coming to Switch Ever wait literally two decades for a sequel to a really

Season 5 of Ubisoft Entrepreneur Labs has begun, revealing 8 chosen startups

Based in Station F (Paris), Ubisoft launched the newest season of their startup program, led by the Ubisoft Strategic Innovation Lab. The program is oriented around supporting innovative startup products and services by providing them expert assistance and access to world-class facilities.  Season 5 of this series will be focused over social entertainment, as evidenced by statements made by the Program Director of the Ubisoft Entrepreneurs Lab Catherine Seys’ on the 9th of January, 2020. She laid out the foundation for the 5th Season by saying – “We want to

Next Week on Xbox: New Games for June 16 to 19

Welcome to Next Week on Xbox, where we cover all the new games coming soon to Xbox One and Windows 10 PC! Every week the team at Xbox aims to deliver quality gaming content for you to enjoy on your favorite gaming console. To find out what’s coming soon to Xbox, read on below and click on each of the game profiles for pre-order details (dates are subject to change). Desperados III – June 16 A story-driven, hardcore tactical stealth game set in a ruthless Wild West scenario. A good

SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Alex Kidd’ is Back, ‘Sunset Riders’ and Today’s Other New Releases, and Tons More Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 11th, 2020. A whole bunch of news is slipping out, and not all of it seems to be hitting at the time its publishers originally intended. That’s how it goes some days. We’ve got a few cool retro-bits to talk about before we go into the usual new release summaries. I’ve also gathered up all of the new sales that have hit since yesterday and added a bunch more from the Summer Sale for good measure. It’s a big

Doom Eternal producer Marty Stratton pens open letter regarding soundtrack

Stratton discussed much of the controversy behind composer Mick Gordon's decision to distance himself from the Doom Eternal soundtrack. Doom Eternal executive producer Marty Stratton has penned an open letter that doubles as a statement in response to the game's original soundtrack release. Following the distancing of composer Mick Gordon from the project entirely, Stratton took it upon himself to head to Reddit with a lengthy explanation about what really happened between Gordon and the Doom Eternal team. According to Stratton, Gordon had been asking for deadline extensions for some