Peloton announces the gamification of its famous bike workouts

Stationary bike company Peloton has announced plans to enter the video game business with an in-app video game temporarily called Lanebreak. A members-only beta is expected to launch in the winter of 2021 and the game will be officially available to the public in 2022. Now in beta, the new program is designed to gamify […]

Thymia raises $1.1m for video game-inspired tool to assess and track depression

Thymia has raised a £780k/$1.1m pre-seed round to scale its platform to assess for and monitor depression. The Thymia technology removes the subjectivity from mental health assessments: instead of answering questionnaires, patients play specially designed video games which use cutting-edge Neuropsychology, Linguistics and Machine Learning to detect signs of depression, as well as monitor whether […]