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Tag: Discord
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The Pocketgamer.biz team pick their highlights from the headlines this week and deliver the stories behind the stories
Jobs News
Discord CEO steps down
Former King president Humam Sakhnini takes top job
Interview
How STAN aims to become India's Discord
STAN CEO and co-founder Parth Chadha talks building a Discord competitor, untapped opportunities, and identifying gaps in India's games industry.
Funding News
Levellr raises $1.75 million for Discord management tools
Company appoints SuperAwesome co-founder Dylan Collins as chairman; aims to add Reddit integration in 2025
Games, Everwhere
Everything is a games platform
Discord, LinkedIn, Telegram - everyone wants in on gaming
New Offerings
Discord Activities opens up to all developers to make games on the platform
The Embedded App SDK lets developers create, distribute, and monetise interactive experiences
Discord Dealings
Backbone adds Discord to growing list of partners
Microsoft and Discord now partnering with Backbone following Series A funding round.
Diversity
BAME in Games celebrates fifth anniversary with new website and Discord server
UK advocacy group to release Representation, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion calendar
Imp-erfct
Update: The Witcher: Monster Slayer suffered major issues at launch
4000 technical support tickets raised
$$$$$
Report: Discord holding "exclusive" sale discussions with Microsoft
Negotiations have reached an "advanced" stage, deal could close next month
Open Communication
Discord users can have text conversations with Matrix-based apps
EMS has secured a deal with the company
Money Money Money
Discord valuation has doubled to $7 billion
Firm raising $140 million in new funding round
Imposter Syndrome
Among Us surge in popularity sees 655% rise in downloads, tops 120 million installs globally
Social deduction title generated 78.2% of all downloads during August and September.
A New Direction
Discord raises $100 million to expand beyond games
The latest change in direction for the communications platform
Chatting Up
Discord surpasses 250 million users
Chat platform attracted 50m new users in first three months of 2019
Struck A Chord
Games chat platform Discord raises $150 million at $2bn valuation
Funding round led by Greenoaks Capital
Struck A Chord
Discord triples userbase to 130 million in just a year
Chat app has added 85m users in the last twelve months
Striking A Discord
Games communication app Discord adds Spotify integration as it surpasses 90 million users
Discord users can connect accounts to Spotifty and share music
Sowing Discord
Gamer messaging app Discord clears 87 million registered users
Now has 14 million DAUs sending 9.5 billion messages a month
Sowing Discord
Gamer chat app Discord guns for Skype by adding video chat and screen-sharing
Won't be ready for at least a month, but testing begins now