Metaplay has launched a Unity software development kit (SDK) that enables mobile games to scale with their growth.
Day: January 22, 2024
Palworld sells 4M copies in 3 days
Palworld is an online game described as Pokemon with guns. And it has sold more than four million copies in three days.
Apple might have sold up to 180,000 Vision Pro headsets over pre-order weekend
Apple’s $3,499 Vision Pro isn’t for everyone, and indeed, the latest pre-order estimates reflect a slow start for this VR spatial computing device. According to analyst Min-Chi Kuo’s calculations based on pre-order inventory and shipping time, he reckons the company sold somewhere between 160,000 to […]
Playdemic cofounders raise $10M for ForthStar game studio
Playdemic founders Paul Gouge and Alex Rigby have unveiled their latest venture, ForthStar, a new mobile free-to-play game studio.
India’s Captain Fresh in talks to raise $50 million in new funding
Captain Fresh, a business-to-business harvest-to-retail marketplace for animal protein, is engaging with investors to raise up to $50 million in fresh funding, according to sources familiar with the matter. The startup is in advanced stages of deliberations to raise the capital from Nekkanti Sea Foods, […]
Kenyan agtech Shamba Pride raises $3.7M to grow its merchant network
Shamba Pride has since 2016 worked to enhance last-mile distribution for farm inputs and tackle price exploitation and quality issues for farmers through its merchant network dubbed digishops. The agtech has, so far, built a network of merchants (agro-dealers) extending across 24 counties in Kenya, […]
Sony tells Zee it’s terminating the $10 billion India merger
Sony called off the merger between its India unit and Zee Entertainment on Monday, ending a two-year acquisition deliberation that would have created a $10 billion media powerhouse in the South Asian market. Sony said in a statement that it has sent a termination letter […]
Metaplay launches Unity-based SDK to scale mobile games
Metaplay has launched a Unity software development kit (SDK) that enables mobile games to scale with their growth.
OpenAI suspends developer over ChatGPT bot that impersonated a presidential candidate
OpenAI has suspended the developer behind Dean.Bot, a ChatGPT-powered bot designed to impersonate Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips to help bolster his campaign, according to The Washington Post. The chatbot was created by AI startup Delphi for the super PAC We Deserve Better, which supports […]