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W4 Games has raised $18 million in Series B funding, bringing its total funding to $33 million, as the company moves to capitalize on the rapid growth of the open-source Godot game engine. The round was led by Tencent, with participation from OSS Capital, Lux Capital, Naval Ravikant and Tobias Lutke’s family office. The financing comes alongside a multi-year strategic … [Read more...] about W4 Games Raises $18 Million as Godot Expands in Enterprise Game Development

IFA opens at Messe Berlin on Friday, and the most consequential thing about the 2026 edition for hardware brands has nothing to do with what gets launched. It has to do with who is standing in the hall when it happens. The show is expanding its Creator Hub for the second year running. In 2025 the Hub drew more than 1,200 creators, roughly half again as many as the year … [Read more...] about IFA Berlin 2026: The Creator Hub Expansion Changes How Gaming Hardware Brands Justify a Berlin Booth

Tencent is in talks to acquire Israeli mobile gaming studio SuperPlay from Playtika, in a deal that would value the company at between $1 billion and $1.5 billion. The negotiations come less than two years after Playtika bought SuperPlay outright, and mark a reversal for a business that was originally billed as Playtika's entry point into faster-growing casual gaming. A … [Read more...] about Tencent in Talks to Acquire SuperPlay From Playtika in Deal Valued at Up to $1.5 Billion

Unity (NYSE: U) used its Unite Seoul keynote to unveil Unity 7, the next major version of its authoring platform, positioning it as the first engine architecture built explicitly around teams that mix human creators with coding agents. The framing from CEO Matt Bromberg was blunt about where the industry is headed: game development is changing faster than at any point in its … [Read more...] about Unity Unveils Unity 7 With Native AI Agent Support and a CoreCLR Performance Overhaul

GameStop disclosed in a Friday SEC filing that it now owns 43.4 million shares of eBay, or roughly 9.8% of the e-commerce company's outstanding stock. The filing lands nearly three months after eBay's board rejected GameStop's unsolicited $56 billion offer to buy the company outright, and it makes clear that CEO Ryan Cohen has no intention of walking away. The stake has … [Read more...] about GameStop Owns 9.8% of eBay, Signals Takeover Bid Still Alive

The tabs accumulated again. Same treatment as always — proximity instead of argument. Policy first, and it's a substitution rather than a repeal: the country-specific reciprocal tariffs are gone, struck down in court, but rebuilt immediately as a temporary 10% Section 122 surcharge. Meanwhile the federal government is building infrastructure of a different kind with Gold … [Read more...] about Thirteen: Still No Through-Line

PLAYSTUDIOS (NASDAQ: MYPS) reported first quarter 2026 revenue of $58.4 million, down 6.9% from $62.7 million in the year-ago period, as continued erosion in its social casino portfolio offset gains in direct-to-consumer monetization and advertising. The results land at an inflection point: the company is simultaneously contracting its legacy business and building the … [Read more...] about PLAYSTUDIOS Q1 2026: Structural Transition in Progress, Outcome Unconfirmed

GIGABYTE has announced the Z890 PLUS series motherboards, a lineup built specifically around Intel's Core Ultra 200S Plus processors and positioned as the performance-per-dollar entry point into the new platform. The lead model, the Z890 AORUS ELITE PLUS, targets gamers and content creators who want next-generation capability without flagship pricing. Internal benchmarks … [Read more...] about GIGABYTE Launches Z890 PLUS Series Motherboards for Intel Core Ultra 200S Plus