A profile of Genshin Impact creator HoYoverse, which is exploring new game genres as its titles begin to cannibalize each other and its revenue declined in 2024
HoYoverse plots a future path to reach further than its anime roots — For decades, Chinese video games and American gamers just didn't mix. Bluesky: @jaysheen . X: @zhugeex , @cecianasta , and @ceci...
More than half a dozen celebrity video game streamers returned exclusively to Twitch in 2024, after their multimillion-dollar YouTube and Kick contracts expired
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg : X: @cecianasta X: Cecilia D'Anastasio / @cecianasta : New: Streamers are returning en masse to Twitch after 7 and 8-figure content deals dried up. Twitch and YouTube...
Analysis: Google and Bing show deepfake porn images of female celebrities atop search results for their names plus “deepfakes”, “fake nudes”, and other terms
Google and other search engines include nonconsensual deepfake porn in top image search results alongside tools … X: @cecianasta , @cecianasta , and @benjamingoggin X: Cecilia D'Anastasio / @cecianast...
A look at Take-Two's $12B Zynga deal in 2022, just as casual games peaked post pandemic, Apple introduced ATT, and the mobile game market headed into a downturn
Video-game giant's push into smartphone titles was expensive and late. — Excitement over the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto VI … Bluesky: @janety.bsky.social . X: @cecianasta , @technology , @...
Ex-FaZe Clan staff describe mismanagement at the creator collective as its valuation falls from $725M during its 2022 SPAC merger to ~$15M; FaZe fired its CEO
The board fired CEO Lee Trink following a steep decline in the shares — Three months after its July 2022 debut on the Nasdaq … X: @cecianasta , @cecianasta , @joonian , @celineorelse , @mattjmcd , @...
Study: in May 2023, ~150K nonconsensual porn deepfakes, with 3.8B total views, appeared on 30 sites, up 9x since 2019, aided by services from big tech companies
To stay up and running, deepfake creators rely on products and services from Google, Apple, Amazon, CloudFlare and Microsoft X: @daveyalba , @cecianasta , and @ajmartinny X: Davey Alba / @daveyalba : ...
After Niantic's latest AR game Peridot got negative app store reviews and few downloads, a look at the company's metaverse games struggling to find an audience
Just a few years ago, tech evangelists were hailing Niantic Inc., the maker of the hit game Pokémon Go … Tweets: @cecianasta , @345triangle , @harrymccracken , @joonian , and @hermesninja Tweets: Ceci...
The hype around esports is fading, as teams and organizations shrink due to a weak sponsorship and ad market, falling VC investment, and the crypto meltdown
particularly as many question esports orgs' ability to turn a profit. https://www.bloomberg.com/... @sergi_m : A folk once said something around the lines of “millions will made and lost around unders...
YouTube names Leo Olebe, who held executive roles in Google Play's games partnership unit and at Meta, as head of its gaming unit, after an eight-month vacancy
great hire!! Carry the torch forward! Stephen Ellis / @snoopeh : @cecianasta Congrats @LeoOlebe 👏🏻 we started some magic in 2016 against all odds at FB, love seeing you back in the video ring! LFG 🚀
An interview with Animoca Brands co-founder Yat Siu on the “crypto winter”, raising funds, breaking up Meta and Microsoft's “digital dictatorships”, and more
Bloomberg : Tweets: @pingroma , @ysiu , @cecianasta , @markmilian , @cecianasta , and @animocabrands Tweets: Zheping Huang / @pingroma : Animoca Brands says its goal is to end Big Tech's “digital dic...