Gaming
Hong Kong’s Animoca Brands to acquire French blockchain game developer Darewise
Animoca Brands, the company Hong Kong-based firm advancing digital property rights for gaming and the metaverse, announced Wednesday it will acquire Darewise Entertainment, a France-based game developer founded by veterans of the AAA games industry that is currently developing the high-quality blockchain MMO Life Beyond. The collaboration will facilitate…
Singapore’s eSports firm ESPL partners Philippine’s Yield Guild Games for crypto NFT gaming
Sedania Innovator Berhad (Sedania)'s Singapore-based Esports Players League (ESPL) on Wednesday announced a partnership with Yield Guild Games Southeast Asia (YGG SEA) as part of its vision to amass gamers in the cryptocurrency, non-fungible token (NFT) gaming and metaverse sphere. The partnership aims to generate up to 300,000 gamers for ESPL and Sedania.
Hong Kong’s Animoca Brands acquires French racing game developer Eden Games
Animoca Brands, the Hong Kong-based company advancing digital property rights for gaming and the metaverse, announced Monday it has completed the acquisition of 100 percent of the issued capital of French racing game developer Eden Games S.A.S. from Engine Gaming & Media. Animoca Brands will leverage the expertise and capabilities of Eden Games to work…
Vietnam’s Sky Mavis raises $150M funding led by Binance to restore funds on the Ronin Bridge
Sky Mavis, the Vietnamese gaming firm behind play-to-earn game Axie Infinity, said Thursday it has raised $150 million funding round led by Binance to restore funds on the Ronin Bridge.The round also saw the participation of Animoca Brands, a16z, Dialectic, Paradigm and Accel. The fund will be used to reimburse user funds affected by the Ronin Validator…
Singapore’s Glance acquires Indian gaming company Gambit to boost NFT gaming platform
Singapore based consumer internet company Glance InMobi Pte Ltd (Glance), announced that it has acquired Indian gaming company Gambit Sports Pvt Ltd. (Gambit), to accelerate its ambition of building the biggest platform for non-fungible token (NFT)-based live gaming experiences for Gen-Z, across markets.The acquisition brings together Glance’s scale and…
Indonesia’s RRQ teams up Alterra to launch RRQ Guild to build and support play-to-earn communities
Rex Regum Qeon (also known as RRQ) on Tuesday launched its new project RRQ Guild, in collaboration with tech startup Alterra, to expand blockchain based play-to-earn communities globally through its fanbase and online-to-offline (O2O) presence. RRQ teamed up Alterra to leverage the latter’s technology expertise and O2O presence in over 90 cities in…
US’s LEET Technology partners with Philippines’ Smart Communications to develop online esports gaming platform in the Philippines
LEET Technology Inc. (LEET) has partnered with Smart Communications Inc. (Smart), to develop Smart GIGA Arena, the first all-in-one online esports gaming platform in the Philippines. Enabling Filipinos to pursue their mobile gaming passion, Smart GIGA Arena is built on a proprietary esports and social gaming platform, by LEET. This platform on the fastest…
Animoca Brands acquires indie game developer Grease Monkey Games
Animoca Brands has acquired Australia-based indie game developer Grease Monkey Games. With extensive experience in motorsports games development and established industry partnerships across motorsports and automotive manufacturing, Grease Monkey Games adds significant game development capabilities and expertise to Animoca Brands.
Animoca Brands Japan begins operations, bags seed round of $10M
Animoca Brands announced Tuesday it has begun operations in Japan with the launch of its strategic subsidiary Animoca Brands KK (Animoca Brands Japan), which has completed a raise of ¥1.1 billion ($10 million) of funding in its seed round. Animoca Brands Japan will use the new capital to expand its business in Japan with the goal to enhance the reach of…
