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Game Studio Blizzard Is Polling Players About Crypto and NFTs

Blizzard, a game studio and part of the Activision-Blizzard company, has started polling some gamers about the use of NFTs and cryptocurrency elements. The survey, which was only directed to some of its players, raised rumors about the possibility of the company introducing some of these elements into its games. However, Mike Ybarra, head of […]

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CEEK VR gains 100%+ as push toward virtual reality and Metaverse development intensifies

CEEK VR caught investors’ attention after hosting a booth at the Grammy’s, seeing its token listed on major exchanges, and launching new developments in the nascent Metaverse.

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Investors Inject $450 Million Into Consensys, Ethereum Incubator Now Valued at $7 Billion

The Ethereum software firm Consensys has announced the incubator has raised $450 million in a Series D funding round led by Parafi Capital. The latest financing brings the company’s valuation to over $7 billion, following the $200 million Series C raise Consensys secured last November. Consensys Raises $450 Million, Proceeds From the Round Will Be […]

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Browser-based metaverse Portals aims to remove the need to get a VR headset

Portals co-founder Adam Gomez explained that a browser-based platform lowers the barrier to enter metaverse for many people.

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GameStop stock up on rumors of Microsoft NFT game partnership

Execs from Immutable X and Microsoft appear to have hinted that the software giant could also be teaming up with GameStop for NFT games.

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Crypto Economy Recaptures $2 Trillion, Bitcoin Moves Back Into the World’s Top 10 Most Valuable Assets

The crypto economy has jumped back above the $2 trillion mark after falling below that value in mid-January. Statistics indicate that the USD value of all 12,440 coins across 544 crypto exchanges is worth $2.08 trillion, up 5.2% during the last 24 hours. Crypto Economy Moves Northbound Past the $2 Trillion Mark Digital currency values […]

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Crypto Biz: Microsoft enters the metaverse, Jan. 14-20

Mark Zuckerberg appears to have ignited a generational buzz around the metaverse. Microsoft becomes the next trillion-dollar company to enter this space.

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Microsoft Reveals Activision Purchase for $68.7 Billion as an Approach to the Metaverse

Microsoft, the software behemoth, announced today it had completed a deal to acquire Activision Blizzard, one of the biggest game developers and publishers in the gaming world. The deal, which involves an all-cash transaction valued at $68.7 billion, will give Microsoft ownership of important franchises like “Call of Duty,” “Candy Crush,” “World of Warcraft,” and […]

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Microsoft Acquires Activision Blizzard for Almost $70 Billion

The big news of this week is Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Microsoft announced today plans to acquire the gaming company Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. The recent acquisition will make Microsoft the world’s third-largest gaming company by revenue, following Tencent and Sony. The recent acquisition topples Microsoft’s Bethesda acquisition for over $7.5 billion last year, the company behind the Doom and Fallout franchises. Microsoft is pivoting towards the gaming industry and betting on its future in the coming years. We had seen the Metaverse explode in popularity in Q4 last year, so betting on gaming in the next couple

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Microsoft’s massive Metaverse move: Buying Activision for $69B

Following the Activision Blizzard acquisition announcement, Microsoft CEO and chairman Satya Nadella stated that gaming “will play a key role in the development of metaverse platforms.”

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