Tagged: gaming

December 20, 2022 @ 10:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

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

December 14, 2022 @ 9:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

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

December 12, 2022 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

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

November 28, 2022 @ 7:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

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

November 20, 2022 @ 8:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

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

November 3, 2022 @ 9:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

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

November 1, 2022 @ 9:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Animoca Brands, the company advancing digital property rights for gaming and the open metaverse, and its subsidiary TinyTap, the platform for user-generated educational games, announced “the launch of Publisher non-fungible tokens (NFTs).” Each Publisher NFT is “linked to a bundle of educational games and other… Read More

October 16, 2022 @ 7:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ZEBEDEE, a Fintech and next-generation payment processor for the gaming industry, announced a new initiative that “contributes open source code and products to the Bitcoin Lightning space.” The new not-for-profit and completely open source initiative “has already resulted in several products and code repositories that… Read More

October 3, 2022 @ 7:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Directorate of Enforcement (ED) in India has reportedly frozen the cryptocurrencies WRX (utility token of WazirX) and USDT (Tether, an Ethereum token that is pegged to the value of a U.S. dollar) equivalent to Rs 47.64 Lakhs (appr. $58,000) “under the provisions ofthe Prevention of… Read More

September 30, 2022 @ 12:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Immutable X, an NFT minting and trading platform and the “first” Layer 2 rapid-scaling solution on Ethereum, is partnering with StarHeroes to bring the skill-based space shooter game into the Immutable ecosystem and “to further accelerate the adoption of web3 games.” Since starting development in… Read More

September 25, 2022 @ 2:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fragnova recently announced that Ambal Duels, a “free-to-play” strategy card game, will be the “first” blockchain-enabled game to be “built using the platform’s unique game development engine, Claymore.” Using blockchain technology means the game will “have immutable assets and modding functionalities, allowing the community to… Read More

September 20, 2022 @ 1:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The “first” in-game NFTs have been minted on Efinity with the launch of the MetaHome NFT collection, immediately usable in MyMetaverse’s full suite of games. MyMetaverse, a game development company specializing in creator-led metaverses with play-and-earn economies, “ensured that on launch, the NFTs perform different… Read More

September 2, 2022 @ 2:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Neo Global Development (NGD) has accepted Metaisland into the EcoBoost program. The multiplayer metaverse GameFi project is “the fourth project to join the EcoBoost program in 2022.” Through EcoBoost, Neo will “provide support and incubation opportunities to help the project enter the market.” In 2021, NGD… Read More

August 16, 2022 @ 12:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Datawisp, a no-code data exploration platform focused on web3 and gaming, has raised $3.6 million in funding. The seed investment round was “led by CoinFund, with participation from Spartan Capital, Mirana Ventures, Dweb3 Capital, and existing investors Play Ventures.” For most businesses, the ability to… Read More

August 5, 2022 @ 5:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ZEBEDEE, which claims to be the leading Fintech and next-gen payment processor for the gaming industry, announced the launch of an integration allowing any business “to implement ‘Log in with ZBD’ and instantly grant users the ability to move money to and from different online… Read More

July 22, 2022 @ 9:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Immutable, a global blockchain gaming company bringing digital asset ownership to billions, announced the appointment of Aviral Avasthi as Senior Vice President, Marketing. Avasthi will “head marketing, communications and community teams for Immutable X, leveraging expertise gained in prominent web2 and web3 roles for Polygon,… Read More

July 11, 2022 @ 7:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cybercriminals have reportedly “duped” a senior engineer at a crypto-based online gaming company, Axie Infinity, into applying for a job at a “fictitious” company. The result: “the loss of $540 million in cryptocurrency,” according to an update shared with CI (and also widely reported). While… Read More

July 8, 2022 @ 9:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Konvoy, an early-stage investment firm that invests at the frontier of gaming, has announced a new $150 million fund as it continues on its mission to be “the best-performing investment firm within the $200 billion video gaming industry, while a recent report from Gamesone has… Read More

July 7, 2022 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Oasys, a blockchain developed specifically for the gaming community, announced that it has completed a private token sale round of $20 million “led by blockchain financing and investment platform, Republic Capital, with participation from Jump Crypto, Crypto.com, Huobi, Kucoin, Gate.io, bitbank and Mirana Ventures.’ Oasys… Read More

June 28, 2022 @ 1:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The launch of Grit, the “first-ever” blockchain game from the partnership between Epic Games and Gala Games, is seen as a “watershed” event for the mass onboarding of gamers from Web2 to Web3, according to an update from Huobi. However, blockchain games have “not reached… Read More