Games

There are plenty of subjects I’ll happily geek out about. But pro wrestling and Apple are both prominent players in the top tier. Imagine, then, my excitement when the two get brought together like some odd-couple tag team. The latest…

The Consumer Electronics Show has gone virtual this year, but it’s still the same broad trade gathering as always. You’re more likely to find a refrigerator with feelings than a lot of gaming-specific news buried in the headlines of the…

Intel is aiming for a comeback, and today, it unveiled four new processor families that it will deliver in 2021. Those four processor families will have 50 different processor variants and will be used in more than 500 PCs being introduced…

IronSource, a major advertising tech firm for mobile games and apps, has acquired ad-quality insights platform Soomla. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The companies are based barely 10 minutes apart in Tel Aviv, Israel, and they’re…

The numbers are in and it’s official: Sony’s PlayStation was the top gaming brand spender on TV advertising for 2020, accounting for over 40% of the industry’s total outlay. All told, 34 brands spent an estimated $270.8 million on TV ads,…

It’s 2021 now, and the government still hasn’t outlawed video games. But even if it did, GamesBeat Decides would continue because editors Jeff Grubb and Mike Minotti are a couple of badasses — you can tell by looking at their gamer…

We have a multiverse of speakers coming to our metaverse event, GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse. A couple of our latest speakers include Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith, CEO of R. Talsorian Games; Geoff Keighley, creator of The Game…

The Federal Trade Commission said today it settled allegations that Tapjoy misled its customers and game developers over the rewards they were promised by completing its advertising offers. In a statement from commissioners Rohit Chopra and…

User-generated game platform Roblox has raised $520 million in a new round of funding, and it will still go public through a direct listing where the company directly sells existing shares to investors. The private funding deal values…

India’s Nukebox Studios is aiming for another global hit with the home design game Room Flip. The creator of Food Truck Chef and Sponge Bob: Krusty Cook-Off has launched a new game targeted at the underserved demographic of older women and…