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1. Catheon Gaming announces preferred blockchain gaming partnership with Polygon

2. Stratosphere Games is kicking off a new investment round

3. Ready Player Me raises $56M for metaverse avatars

4. Azur Games invests in French studio Pinpin Team

5. Ex-Bethesda vet forms Something Wicked, NetEase Games invests $13.2 million

6. njoyKidz receives the first investment round on a $5 million valuation

7. Chess.com acquires Play Magnus Group to create superior chess experiences

8. TinyBuild Games acquires Konfa Games and Bossa Games IP for a total of $8.4 million

9. Veterans of Disney, EA, and Kabam gave announced the formation of a new studio, Carbon Counts

10. Polygon Founder raises $50M for a new venture fund focused on early-stage Web3 startups

11. Black Block raised $1.5M from Play Ventures to build a web3 GTA

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