Cosmic Lounge’s Post

🏆🎮 Congratulations to our 25 Game Changers 2025, who are taking over the Nasdaq Tower on Times Square today! 📢 Lightspeed Announcement: https://lnkd.in/dMNf4k7P 🥇 Out of over 1,400 nominations, this year's winners are Bitmagic, Brilliant Labs, Cartwheel, Cosmic Lounge, Eggscape Entertainment Inc, ego (YC W24), emptyvessel, Giant Skull, k-ID, Layer AI, Look North World, Ludeo, Mudstack, Noodle Cat Games, Pok Pok, Praktika.ai, Ray Browser, Regression Games, Sloyd, Stoke Games, Superbloom, Talofa, Torbie, Womp, and Yellow. 📈 Our annual theme was "Adaptation & Resilience." As the gaming industry returns to growth in 2024, what makes this year special for Game Changers is that—in our second iteration—we can now start building a real community of extraordinary founders: previous winners, today's winners, and our judges and mentors. 👩⚖️ Thank you to our incredible judges, including C-level gaming executives across Activision Blizzard, Amazon, Bungie, ByteDance, Call of Duty, DeepMind, Disney, Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Goldman Sachs, Google, Inworld AI, King, Krafton, League of Legends, McKinsey, Meta, Microsoft, NCsoft, Niantic, Oculus, Riot Games, Stanford University, Take-Two Interactive, Tencent, TikTok, Uber, Unity, Unreal Engine, Valve, YouTube Gaming, Xbox, and Zynga. ✒️ And a very special thank you goes to GamesBeat and Dean Takahashi. We could not have wished for a better partner in this initiative, and we are already looking forward to finding next year's top emerging gaming & interactive media startups! 🪄 3D technology & infrastructure 🤖 Generative AI & agents 🕹️ Game studios & UGC 📱 Interactive media platforms 🥽 Extended reality (AR & VR)