Tag: Games

Cronos, the DeFi and Web3 gaming-focused blockchain network by Crypto.com, has launched the Cronos Accelerator Program aiming to help developers and builders accelerate the ecosystem’s growth. The Cronos Accelerator Program is funded by the $100 million Cronos Labs Ecosystem Fund to provide investments and guidance to early-stage blockchain projects. The Cronos Accelerator Program is funded…

Actively pushing reforms and policies in the field of digital technologies, the UAE has conducted Metacon, the two-day event held at The Arena, Dubai World Trade Centre. The event aimed to help the building of a fast-growing Web3 community in the UAE, exhibiting the abundant opportunities of the metaverse on May 27-28. The UAE is…

India, Hong Kong, and the UAE are the top three locations where play-to-earn games are most popular. In a recent study, Finder estimated that 34% of the Indian respondents had played play-to-earn (P2E) games, Hong Kong ranked second with 29%, while the UAE held the third position with 27%. According to Finder’s NFT Gaming Adoption…

Gaming companies are poised to be on the metaverse’s cutting edge, former Nintendo executive Reggie Fils-Aimé predicts. In the metaverse and gaming content is still king, he said. In the last year, the 3D virtual world known as the metaverse has come to the forefront of tech and business discourse. Facebook, for instance, has changed…

On May 18, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced the launch of a $600 million fund focused on metaverse games. A16z is looking to expand its reach into the gaming industry, which generated more than $300 billion last year. With the new fund, named “Games Fund One,” the team plans on investing in various…

The global pandemic changed everything for creators: The stay-at-home orders accelerated the shift toward blockchain and Web3 advancement, writes Doug Petkanics, a co-founder at Livepeer, where the team is building a decentralized live video broadcast platform to enable the next generation of video streaming. After two years and many COVID-19 restrictions finally subsiding, the world…