February 9, 2022 Party Up Social mobile gaming app Bunch heads into the metaverse Version 2 is coming with NFTs
December 7, 2021 Aligned Incentives Tilting Point on synergistic growth by supercharging its developers' success Samir Agili, Asi Burak and Jean-Sebastien Laverge discuss
September 29, 2021 Bigger Screen Genvid and Intel combine for 5G Project Monarch livestream gaming test Downloads and installs not required
August 12, 2021 Everything Everywhere From console blockbusters to mobile indies, how Genvid's streaming tech is creating mass engagement gaming The shaping of a new way to play
August 11, 2021 "rocket Ship" Unity picks up remote working and streaming firm Parsec for $320 million Deal looks to close for an estimated $320 million
August 4, 2021 Finding Value Tilting Point acquires publishing rights to Hidden Hotel: Miami Mystery WhaleApp's hidden object game has generated $40 million
July 20, 2021 Great Guns Tilting Point raises $235 million to accelerate studio acquisition strategy General Atlantic leads first equity raise
July 15, 2021 Gen-erous Genvid raises $113 million to launch Genvid Entertainment and more massive interactive live events Netflix executive Cindy Holland joins firm as an advisor too
May 19, 2021 Vertical Integration Vungle's third big acquisition is cloud-based ad creative outfit TreSensa Building out a complete platform
May 7, 2021 Big Brain Time BigBrain raises $4.5 million in funding to launch real-money trivia game Going live later in 2021
March 23, 2021 Jobs In Games "Monetisation outside traditional ad formats in the games industry is sometimes received with a lot of scepticism" Pollfish COO Andres Vourkos discusses his route into games
September 24, 2020 Coming Together Why Bunch got $20 million to party harder Building the next gaming social network
February 25, 2020 Joyconboyz Desmond 'Etika' Amofah mural commemorated in Pokemon GO Popular reacts YouTuber took his life in June 2019
November 27, 2019 In The Flow Genvid Technologies raises $27 million to fund new streaming engine Building more tools
November 26, 2019 Anger Mis-management Rovio launches anger-powered Angry Birds venting machine in Time Square Yell, punch or shake the machine for a prize
November 20, 2019 From Devs For Devs Social video app for gaming Bunch raises $3.85 million from Supercell, Miniclip, Riot Industry funding for synergetic NYC startup
October 29, 2019 Gonged Reggie Fils-Aimé to become a Legend at New York Games Awards An Andrew Yoon Legend no less
July 17, 2019 New York New York New York’s biggest two-day game convention Play NYC returns for third annual event Play NYC will take place between August 10th to August 11th, 2019
July 4, 2019 Layoffs NBCUniversal partner Endless Entertainment lays off seven employees “It’s simply an unfortunate reality of a slow-down in our current development cycle”
June 25, 2019 14 Years Later Israel becomes home to Nintendo’s second official store Official New York outlet opened in 2005
April 2, 2019 Focus On Ip Konami rebrands New York office to Konami Cross Media Yuta Kose has been named president for the renamed studio
July 23, 2018 Events Play NYC enters its second year with a four-floor showcase of New York City’s hottest games Playcrafting expect numbers to double up to 10,000 attendees at new Manhattan Centre venue
December 5, 2017 Champion Of Fire Amazon's 2017 Champions of Fire casual eSports tournament wraps up in New York Twitch streamer Yassuo wins $10,000
December 5, 2017 Connect The Dots Dots CEO Paul Murphy to step down at the end of 2017 COO Patrick Moberg to take over
November 10, 2017 Straight Fire Amazon's Champions of Fire casual eSports tournament returns on December 2nd Sonic Forces: Speed Battle, Beach Buggy Racing, Minion Rush and more will be represented
July 12, 2017 Time To Experiment Experimental games company Velan Studios secures $7 million series A funding round Round led by Velan Ventures
June 23, 2017 New Studio Warner Bros. Interactice Entertainment opens cloud-based technology studio WB Games New York Providing backend services across all its online titles
March 28, 2017 Sad Catz Peripheral manufacturer Mad Catz to be delisted from NYSE Abnormally low trading price to blame
February 20, 2017 Still Room For Indies? How Tilting Point is helping indies compete with its $12 million UA fund Game Alliance Dan Sherman talks tilting the balance back in indies' favour
February 1, 2017 Take Point Take-Two acquires Spanish mobile developer Social Point for $250 million $175 million in cash, the rest in shares
November 21, 2016 Moving On Bala brothers leave Vicarious Visions after 25 years to form new company Velan Studios Duo plans to get prototyping games with small teams
September 14, 2016 Optimal Funds Customer marketing cloud Optimove closes $20 million growth funding round Looks to hire aggressively in New York
July 28, 2016 All Systems Go? Turbo ends Super Senso beta and pulls anticipated mobile strategy game from soft launch Something's happening
June 10, 2016 Cash In Valued at $5.5 billion, LINE to IPO in New York and Tokyo on mid-July Joint listing in New York and Tokyo
June 2, 2016 Market Yourself Nextgen publisher Tilting Point seeks a Marketing Manager New York firm hiring experienced marketing pro
June 1, 2016 Ua Xp UA MegaTrends guy Eric Seufert on setting up Heracles, a boutique agency providing CMO smarts Partnering for success
May 24, 2016 Join The Arkadians How to get a job at New York casual studio Arkadium VP of People Operations Jim Lally shares insights
May 9, 2016 Smells Good How a running Sephora-branded campaign boosted Daily Celebrity Crossword's revenue by 79% Matching demographics
April 28, 2016 A Little Moor Detail Moor Games CEO Davon Robinson on Fetty Wap, real world rewards, and engaging multicultural audiences The background and inspiration behind Fetty Wap: Nitro Nation Stories
April 8, 2016 Tale Of 2 Publishers Nexon passes on Turbo's Super Senso, leaving GungHo to sign publishing deal All change
March 4, 2016 On The Up HyprMX CEO Corey Weiner promoted to president of parent company Jun Group Commits company's future to mobile video ads
February 10, 2016 Controlled Qaos Short, sweet and unexpected: How Qaos Games hopes to shake up the App Store Doing things differently
October 23, 2015 Deal Closed AOL acquires Millennial Media in $248 million deal Acquisition confirmed, Millennial Media stock withdrawn from NYSE
October 8, 2015 Forced Into F2p Crescent Moon founder Josh Presseisen on the quiet death of premium games New York indie increasingly embracing F2P
October 6, 2015 Get Hired Redefine publishing with a job at fast-growing Tilting Point President and co-founder Dan Sherman shares insights
August 25, 2015 Open Door Tilting Point hires Gameloft Americas VP Samir El Agili as its new CPO Staffing up