gaming

• Gamer gear brand HyperX has selected 25 up-and-coming streamers who are “Queued Up” for success
• After raising $12.9 million in fresh funding, Stacked wants to be Twitch for Web3

  Stacked has raised a $12.9 million Series A round led by Pantera Capital. It wants to use a play-to-earn model to be Twitch for Web3.

  
• With the new game Nyan Heroes, Wengie has a chance “to be the good in Web3”

  Wendy Huang, a YouTube star known as Wengie, is one of the co-founders of Nyan Heroes, a blockchain-based battle royale game with AAA values.

  
• Ali-A hosted ‘uTure’ to find YouTube’s next great gamer. He just gave out the $100,000 grand prize.

  Ali-A's 'uTure,' a quest to find the next YouTube Gaming star, has crowed the American creator Mikeeey as the winner of its $100,000 prize.

  
• Not spending enough time on TikTok already? Now you can play games on the app.
• Myth is the latest streaming star to sign with YouTube Gaming
• The former head of gaming content at TikTok is co-founding a “blockchain-agnostic” Web3 startup
• Games Done Quick has raised more than $40 million. Its latest speedrunning event was one of its biggest.
• Creators like CouRage and Nadeshot participated in a Web3 gaming platform’s $13.5 million seed round
• Ali-A offers $100,000 to a gamer of the ‘Uture’ in competition series
• Rich Paul is LeBron’s agent. Now he and UTA will represent gamer FaZe Swagg.
• UTA is beefing up its esports roster by signing top ‘Apex Legends’ and ‘Valorant’ players