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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

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Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. It’s also making forays into non-game scenarios like online education and autonomous driving.

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Indian gaming platform Mobile Premier League valued at $945M in $95M fundraise

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Mobile Premier League (MPL) has raised $95 million in a new financing round, just five months after it secured $90 million as the two-and-a-half-year-old Bangalore-based esports and gaming platform looks to grow in international markets. million users in Indonesia, also serves as a publishing platform for other gaming firms.

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Operating System Characteristics (Features)

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Do you know all the applications, including MS Office, editing software, browser, and games need a suitable environment to execute their task? The operating system is the software that enables an ideal environment for all these application software to work effectively. What is an Operating System? Image Source.

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Beamery raises $138M at an $800M valuation for its ‘operating system for recruitment’

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TIP’s other investments have included ComplyAdvantage , Epic Games , Graphcore , KRY and SpaceX , a long run in a wide field. Today, one of the startups doing just that is announcing a big round of funding to double down on its growth so far. Leading companies worldwide are prioritising recruitment and retention.

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Rec Room raises $145M at a $3.5B valuation for its user-generated, immersive gaming platform

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On the heels of Roblox hitting it big with its platform for user-created gaming content, another startup has landed a major round of funding to build out its own user-generated platform aimed at immersive experiences. billion valuation. (To There are some 12 million rooms on the platform already, Rec Room said.

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Admix raises $25M Series B to scale up in-game ads, and prep for Metaverse gaming

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The London-based company brings ads to games, e-sports, virtual reality, and augmented reality. In-game advertising at scale, where advertisers can bid programmatically through traditional ad-buying platforms, rather than relying on an ad agency model, remains an enormous area, largely under-exploited.

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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

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A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. But first… what is a game engine, exactly? Godot editor demo.