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Social gaming startup Rec Room will shut down its service on June 1, saying it couldn’t find a path to profitability; it was valued at $3.5 billion as of December 2021 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 30, 2026

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Social gaming startup Rec Room will shut down its service on June 1, saying it couldn’t…

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Google announces partnership with Sea to develop AI tools for Sea’s Shopee, Southeast Asia’s most dominant e-commerce platform, and Garena, Sea’s gaming unit (Stanley Widianto/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 21, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI’s $100B Funding Round, OpenClaw Acquisition, AI Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie The Big…

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A live blog of Nvidia’s keynote with CEO Jensen Huang at CES 2026, where the company showcases AI, robotics, simulation, gaming and more (Katie Teague/Engadget)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 5, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The High Growth Handbook: Molly Graham’s Frameworks for Managing Chaos, Change, and Scale Interviews with world-class…

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A profile of Nex, which makes the $249 Nex Playground motion-based gaming system aimed at kids and projects more than $150 million in sales this year (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 13, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI Priority 2026, Disney’s AI Play, Data Center Construction Issues The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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An interview with Michelle Liu, global CEO of Tencent Games, whose hands-on approach to trading has generated $10 billion in international gaming revenue in the past year (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 10, 2025

Bloomberg: An interview with Michelle Liu, Global CEO of Tencent Games, whose hands-on approach to trading has generated $10 billion…

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Dry yield: US gross online gaming income was $ 90.1 billion in 2024, of which $ 67.1 went to illegal casinos; License -free operators in California had $ 5.5 billion in income (Olivia Solon / Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 10, 2025

Olivia Solon / Bloomberg:: Dry yield: US gross online gaming income was $ 90.1 billion in 2024, of which $…

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Sources: Apollo Global, Morgan Stanley and others are testing Grok internally as part of xAI’s financial sector push, but financiers rarely use it for their work (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

Cisco reports third-quarter revenue up 12% year-over-year to $15.84 billion, compared to an estimated $15.56 billion, forecasts fourth-quarter revenue above estimates and cuts nearly 4,000 jobs; CSCO jumps more than 17% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Musk vs. Altman: Microsoft Executive Michael Wetter Testifies Microsoft Spent More Than $100 Billion on OpenAI Partnership, Including Initial Investments (Bloomberg)

The FTC says Shutterstock will pay $35 million to settle charges that Shutterstock misled consumers about its subscription plans and made it too difficult to cancel (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Trump Mobile CEO Pat O’Brien said pre-orders for the T1 phone would begin shipping to customers this week and the device would be assembled in the United States, after months of delays (Michelle Del Rey/USA Today)

Browsing: gaming

Social gaming startup Rec Room will shut down its service on June 1, saying it couldn’t find a path to profitability; it was valued at $3.5 billion as of December 2021 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Google announces partnership with Sea to develop AI tools for Sea’s Shopee, Southeast Asia’s most dominant e-commerce platform, and Garena, Sea’s gaming unit (Stanley Widianto/Reuters)

A live blog of Nvidia’s keynote with CEO Jensen Huang at CES 2026, where the company showcases AI, robotics, simulation, gaming and more (Katie Teague/Engadget)

A profile of Nex, which makes the $249 Nex Playground motion-based gaming system aimed at kids and projects more than $150 million in sales this year (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

An interview with Michelle Liu, global CEO of Tencent Games, whose hands-on approach to trading has generated $10 billion in international gaming revenue in the past year (Bloomberg)

Dry yield: US gross online gaming income was $ 90.1 billion in 2024, of which $ 67.1 went to illegal casinos; License -free operators in California had $ 5.5 billion in income (Olivia Solon / Bloomberg)