Gaming

Cake DeFi levels up with Razer Silver

Cake DeFi, Asia’s fastest growing cryptofinance platform dedicated to providing access to decentralized financial services, has announced on Friday a market-leading partnership with Razer Silver, a loyalty rewards program for gamers, backed by Razer Inc, the world’s leading lifestyle brand for gamers.

Animoca Brands raises over $75M to advance vision of open metaverse

Animoca Brands, the Hong Kong-based company advancing digital property rights for gaming and the open metaverse, announced Tuesday that it has completed a capital raise of $75.32 million. Investors in the round included Liberty City Ventures, Kingsway Capital, Alpha Wave Ventures, 10T, SG Spring Limited Partnership Fund, Generation Highway Ltd, Cosmic…

Meta Hollywood partners The Sandbox to develop Hollywood-themed LAND and gamified experiences

Meta Hollywood, the largest virtual community for movie lovers, studios, and creators, which was launched by Animoca Brands in partnership with the Planet Hollywood Group (Planet Hollywood), announced Wednesday a new partnership with The Sandbox, a decentralized gaming virtual world and a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, to develop a first-of its-kind virtual…

Animoca Brands co leads $41 million Series C funding in Germany’s Klang Games

Klang Games, an innovative game development studio based in Berlin, announced Wednesday the completion of its Series C funding of $41 million, increasing its total funds raised to nearly $80 million. The funding round was co-led by Animoca Brands and Kingsway Capital, with participation from Anthos, Novator, Supercell, Roosh, AngelHub, and New Life…

Tencent Cloud collaborates with Megazone Cloud, KMGA and Yeonsung University to empower cloud-based mobile game development talent in Korea

In line with its commitment to talent development in the gaming industry, Tencent Cloud – the cloud business of global technology company Tencent, announced on Monday its signing of a four-party Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Megazone Cloud, Korea Mobile Game Association (KMGA) and Yeonsung University. The agreement aims to nurture cloud-based…

Taking traditional gaming to the Metaverse, an interview with Red Door Digital’s Joseph Derflinger [Q&A]

Founded in 2021, Red Door Digital aims to take the ultra traditional gaming experience to the metaverse. The company is a global-to-local Web 3.0-ready game studio and publisher making award-winning AAA-quality GameFi titles a reality. The team is composed of world-class game designers and developers that not only worked on, but spearheaded the launch of…

Cake DeFi partners with FACEIT in multi million dollar deal to allow gamers to earn cryptocurrency

Cake DeFi, a Singapore-based crypto fintech platform, announced Friday a multi-million dollar partnership with FACEIT, a United Kingdom-based platform for competitive online gaming, to allow users to earn cash flow from their crypto.

Animoca Brands partners nature gaming startup Untamed Planet to develop Untamed Metaverse

Animoca Brands, the Hong Kong-based company advancing digital property rights for gaming and the metaverse, said Friday it has invested in and partnered with Untamed Planet, the gaming company inspired by nature with a mission to protect the wild, to develop and publish Untamed Metaverse, a major upcoming game to benefit nature conservation efforts.

Hong Kong’s Animoca Brands partners Germany’s OneFootball to bring football to blockchain

Animoca Brands, a Hong Kong-based company advancing digital property rights for gaming and the metaverse, announced Thursday that it has partnered Germany-based football media platform OneFootball and United States-based venture capital firm Liberty City Ventures to set up OneFootball Labs, which will enable clubs, leagues, federations and players to…