Tagged: gaming

Web3 Infrastructure: Polygon Labs, Horizon to Advance Sequence’s Wallet, Developer Stack on Polygon Supernets

Horizon Blockchain Games, a web3 infrastructure and gaming company, and Polygon Labs, a growth and development team for the Polygon protocols, announced a strategic alliance aimed at enhancing web3 infrastructure. Horizon’s Sequence product is described as “a leading web3 developer platform: its modular all-in-one web3… Read More

Metaverse: Hex Trust, The Sandbox to Enable Secure Custody of Virtual Assets

Hex Trust, an institutional-grade digital asset custodian licensed across global financial hubs, has partnered with The Sandbox, a decentralized gaming virtual world to enable fully-licensed and highly-secure custody of assets such as LAND in The Sandbox’s metaverse. Hex Trust has fully “integrated LAND into its… Read More

Binance Labs Invests in GOMBLE, a South Korean Developer of Blockchain-based Casual Games

Binance Labs, the venture capital arm and accelerator of Binance, committed an investment in the seed funding round of GOMBLE, a blockchain-based casual game developer. GOMBLE will use the funds “to develop and release its first mobile game, RumbyStars, and continue to expand its gaming… Read More

Permissionless Relational Database for Web 3 Apps, Tableland, Raises $8M Series A Led By CoinFund

Tableland, a permissionless relational database for web3 applications, today announced a $8M Series A round led by CoinFund with participation from Multicoin Capital, Blueyard and A Capital, bringing the company’s total financing to $10.4M. The new funds from the investment round will be used “to… Read More

Digital Identity: Veriff Introduces Video Gaming-Focused ID Verification Offering

Veriff, a global identity verification provider, has released enhanced identity verification capabilities tailored specifically for the video gaming industry. The offering “streamlines the identity verification (IDV) process for gamers, while helping gaming platforms safeguard their users by ensuring that players are only able to access… Read More

South Korea’s Gaming Firm Wemade Teams Up with Space and Time to Power Blockchain and Gaming Services

Wemade Co., Ltd, which claims to be one of the largest publicly-listed gaming companies in South Korea with a market capitalization of $1.4 billion, has announced a strategic partnership with Space and Time (SxT), a key player focused on decentralized data warehousing. The partnership will… Read More

Web3 Gaming: Bloxmith Launches Raiders Rumble, A Mobile Strategy Game on the Flow Blockchain

Bloxmith, the “player-first” Web3 gaming studio, announced that the open beta for Raiders Rumble, its 1v1 squad battler game for mobile powered by the Flow blockchain, is now available for download on Google Play and Apple App Store. Raiders Rumble challenges players “to apply fast-paced… Read More

Mastercard, Video Game Commerce Firm Xsolla Level up Gaming Experience

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and global video game commerce company Xsolla announced plans to collaborate “on frictionless, secure, and rewarding payments for gamers — from enhanced checkout experiences using credit card loyalty points1 to simple in-game currency gifting to improved creator payout processes and more.” The… Read More

Identity Proofing Provider Jumio Now Supporting Sisal’s Gaming Experience

Jumio, the provider of automated, end-to-end identity proofing, risk assessment, and eKYC solutions, has partnered with international gaming operator Sisal “to streamline KYC for its players online.” Based in Italy, Sisal currently “operates in Italy, Morocco, and Turkey, with a range of offerings that includes… Read More

Open Banking: Payments Fintech Trustly Teams Up with PointsBet

Trustly, the global firm focused on Open Banking Payments, partners with PointsBet, an  online gaming operator, “to offer its players Instant Payouts in the United States, powered by Cross River.” In partnership with Cross River Bank, a financial services and technology infrastructure provider that offers… Read More

Payments Fintech Paysafe Expands US iGaming Presence with Ohio Market Entry

Paysafe (NYSE: PSFE), a payments platform, announced its expansion into the new Ohio online sports-betting market after entering the Maryland iGaming space in Q4 2022. Paysafe is now “powering play safely for a range of sportsbooks in the Midwestern state by providing their players with… Read More

Bitcoin Chess, Other Rewarded Games Released by Fintech ZEBEDEE, VIKER

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ZEBEDEE, the Fintech and next-generation payment processor for the gaming industry, and VIKER, the innovative mobile games studio that’s taking over the Play-and-Earn space,  announced the launch of two new rewarded games, “with more to come soon.” These new releases continue VIKER’s strategy of using… Read More

Pillz, Developer of Wearable Devices for NFT-Collectibles, Finalizes Pre-Seed Round

Pillz, the developer of wearable devices for NFT-collectibles and NFT-gaming, raised a pre-seed round from Xsolla and its Founder Aleksandr “Shurick” Agapitov. Aleksandr Agapitov, Xsolla founder and Pillz Board of Directors member, said: “Pillz represents what I always look for in teams – a passion… Read More

Blockchain Gaming Firm Wemade Announces Updates to Rise of Stars, a Mobile Game

Global blockchain gaming company Wemade announced that Rise of Stars (ROS), a mobile game developed by LightCON Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Wemade Max Co., Ltd., revamped the Silthereum system on December 28, as follows. Updated Silther Check used for item purchase and Silthereum exchange… Read More

Fintech ZEBEDEE Re-Launches App with New Earning, Digital Identity Features

ZEBEDEE, a Fintech and next-generation payment processor for the gaming industry,  announced the relaunch of its flagship product, the ZEBEDEE app. The revamped app “brings shopping and digital identity features to transform the previously Bitcoin–gaming-focused app into a hub of virtual economies centered around rewarded… Read More

Blockchain Gaming Survey Reveals Gamers Are “Positive” About Benefits Of Play-and-Earn Games

ZEBEDEE, a Fintech and “next-generation” payment processor for the gaming industry, announced the results of a study “surveying over 1,000 U.S. respondents who play a minimum of one hour of video games per week to gauge their feelings toward blockchain technologies, NFTs and cryptocurrencies being… Read More

Earn Alliance Announces $4.75M Raise, Launch of Web3 Game Platform

Earn Alliance, a game community platform, announced the close of its $4.75m seed raise to connect game developers “with genuine fans and gamers across the globe through a focus on fun versus crypto speculation.” The alpha version of Earn Alliance’s platform is “set to launch… Read More

Blockchain based Gaming: Magic Eden Announces Expansion to Polygon Network

Magic Eden, the cross-chain NFT marketplace, announced plans to integrate with the Polygon network. The expansion will allow Magic Eden “to work closely with strategic IP owners, world-class games developers, and emerging creators from the Polygon ecosystem.” The Polygon network is “home to some of… Read More

Binance Labs Invests $4M in Ultimate Champions to Accelerate Innovation in Web3 Gaming

Binance Labs, the venture capital arm and accelerator of Binance, invested $4 million in Ultimate Champions, a Web3 sports game platform that will be “built on the BNB Chain.” Ultimate Champions will use the funds raised “to further develop its games, secure additional sports partnerships,… Read More

MetaMask, Game7 Unveil HyperPlay, a Web3 App, Focused on Gaming

Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) Game7 and MetaMask announce HyperPlay, which is described as “an open-source desktop application where interoperability is the default for Web3 games.” HyperPlay claims it is “the world’s first Web3-native game launcher, built to make the user experience free of friction for… Read More

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