Tag: gaming
Lowkey raises $7 million from a16z to help game streamers capitalize on short-form video
While the growth of game-streaming audiences have continued on desktop platforms, the streaming space has felt surprisingly stagnant at times, particularly due to the missing mobile element and a lack of startup competitors. Lowkey, a gaming startup that builds software for game streamers, is aiming to build out opportunities in…
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5 mistakes creators make building new games on Roblox
Joe Ferencz Contributor Joe Ferencz is the founder and CEO of Gamefam, a game publisher operating exclusively on Roblox. With Roblox’s massive IPO this month, game developers, brands and investors alike are wondering what factors cause the most successful games on this $47 billion platform to break out from the…
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Discord’s $10B exit; Compass and Intermedia Cloud Communications set IPO price ranges
It’s demo day for the current Y Combinator class, so we’ll have a largely early-stage focus at TechCrunch today. But there’s also a host of late- and super-late-stage news this morning that matters. Let’s get to all of it before we start to talk accelerators, overheated pre-seed valuations and the…
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Tim Cook and Tim Sweeney among potential witnesses for Apple/Epic trial
A proposed witness list filed by Apple for its upcoming trial against game-maker Epic reads like a who’s who of executives from the two companies. The drawn out battle could well prove a watershed moment from mobile app payments. The two sides came to loggerheads when the Fortnite maker was…
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Nvidia raises GeForce Now subscription plan to $10 per month
Nvidia’s cloud gaming service GeForce Now has announced some changes when it comes to subscription plans. Starting today, paid memberships now cost $9.99 per month, or $99.99 per year — they are now called ‘Priority’ memberships. If you’re an existing ‘Founders’ member, you’ll keep the same subscription price as long…
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With 1v1Me, anyone can gamble on their ability to crush an opponent in player vs. player games
Anthony Geranio has played video games for the past thirteen years. The 26 year-old first time founder of 1v1Me, a new company that lets anyone gamble on their ability to win in a player vs. player game, tried to make it as a professional gamer, but when that didn’t work,…
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