Humble and IDW Publishing have teamed up to bring you the New and Classic Dungeons & Dragons Humble Comics Bundle, which offers a massive selection of D&D graphic novels worth up to $332. As is always the case with a Humble Bundle, you pay what you want. You do have to pay the minimum amount […]
Powder Raises $14M Series A Led by Serena – The Esports Observer
French tech startup Unique Entertainment Expérience, which is doing business as Powder, announced that it has secured a $14M USD Series A financing round led by Paris-based venture capital firm Serena. Further investors include General Catalyst, Slow Ventures, Alven Capital, Banque publique d’investissement (Bpifrance) through its fund Digital Venture, Secocha Ventures, Turner Novak, and Kevin Hartz. The startup, which was co-founded in 2018 by Stanislas Coppin (CEO), […]
GRID Secures a $10M Series A Investment, Pushes into U.S. Market – The Esports Observer
Berlin-based esports data firm GRID eSports announced that it has secured a $10M USD Series A financing round from investors including Alinea Capital, Bumble Ventures, Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder, Agileo Ventures, and NFL player JuJu Smith-Schuster. The investment brings GRID’s total funds raised to $11.6M. The company, which launched its esports data services in September 2018 during the FACEIT Major: London 2018, a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive competition, revealed that it […]
Netflix Is Making A Live-Action Gundam Movie
Dating back to 1979, Gundam has captivated TV audiences and model makers alike with giant robots that are armed to the teeth with rockets and energy sowrds. Today, Gundam’s creator, Sunrise, has partnered with Legendary Entertainment to create the first-ever, live-action Gundam movie for Netflix. Gundam has been a staple in video games as well, […]
Terraria: How To Make A Realistic House
Let’s be honest, defeating all the bosses in Terraria only takes up a quarter of your time in the game. The rest is a combination of mining and building your base. The Terraria community never sleeps when it comes to building extravagant houses and artwork in the game. If you’ve seen these posts and wanted to […]
Sakovits Pioneering a Place in Esports, Traditional Sports While Covering Soccer – The Esports Observer
The crossover of mainstream broadcast talent as it relates to covering both traditional sports and esports has been virtually non-existent. Nowhere do you see the likes of Erin Andrews, Joe Buck, Bob Costas, and Holly Rowe in the booth, so to speak, for both types of events. Instead, for whatever reasons, you see a separation […]
Knack 2 Isn’t A Masterpiece, But It Definitely Deserved Better
Knack 2 is a good game. There, I said it. It’s not great, but compared to its mediocre predecessor, it feels like a fully fledged platformer with enough creative ideas to cement itself in my memory. Sadly, before it was even announced, the possibility of a Knack sequel had already become a bit of an […]
PUBG Dev Might Be Working On A Sci-Fi Open World Game
We might be getting an all new game from the developers of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and it doesn’t look like a battle royale. If you’re currently unaware of what’s going on in the world of PUBG, you really can’t be blamed because it’s a lot, and a bit confusing too. PUBG recently announced New State, a […]
Warframe Has The Best Reload Animations. Fight Me.
I’ve played a lot of shooters, and I’ve come to a very important conclusion: Warframe has the best reload animations of all time. Here’s a dirty little secret that most game devs probably don’t want you to know about. Whenever you reload a gun in a first-person shooter, most of the time your character is […]
A Gummy’s Life: Juicy Fruit
Human Fall Flat brought me into the world of the physics platforming genre with its flimsy, rubbery, and awkward player-controlled character taking on various physics-based puzzles. Things got a lot more heated and intense when I finally discovered Gang Beasts, playing against my nephews as they absolutely decimated me with their quick moves and, well, […]