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Kliuless #25: The Post-Platform Metaverse
Each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I share with other Rioters, including Riot’s senior leadership. This edition is the public version that I publish broadly every week as well. Opinions are mine.
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Kliuless? Gaming Industry ICYMI #25
Hi, my name is Kenny Liu, and I work in Revenue Strategy at Riot Games. Each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I share with other Rioters, including Riot’s senior leadership. This edition is the public version that I publish broadly every week as well. Opinions are mine.
See more or subscribe at: https://tinyletter.com/kliuless
Revenue Strategy, Growth, and Payments
Stratechery: The Value Chain Constraint
Spaghetti graphs — a better solution for measuring customer engagement
FTC Plans Public Workshop on Loot Boxes, Won’t Comment on Legal Investigation
10 Mistakes to Avoid in Influencer Marketing
U.S. Digital Marketing Spend Beats Traditional For The First Time
WSJ: Apple, Goldman Sachs Team Up on Credit Card Paired With iPhone
Multi-Platform / Post-Platform
Electronic Arts, Amazon, and Comcast make bids to buy Nexon
Roblox players amass more than one billion hours worth of engagement each month
Apple Plans on Combining iPhone, iPad, Mac Apps by 2021
Tencent & Intel partner on new cloud gaming service for PC and phones
Shadow launched Ghost cloud gaming device, allowing gamers to play high-end computer games on TVs, laptops, and phones
Rumor: Microsoft Bringing Game Pass And Published Titles To Switch
PC/Console
Ebba Ljungerud's grand strategy: A chat with Paradox's CEO
Opinion: Rising development costs forced Square Enix to find its soul
Funcom N.V. enters into exclusive partnership with Legendary Entertainment for games in the DUNE universe
Mobile
Popularity of mobile game art styles and genres – data breakdown
Sprint teams up with Hatch Entertainment to enable 5G mobile cloud gaming
Mattel's video game division eyes original IP
Com2us launches Skylanders Ring of Heroes worldwide
Glu Announces First Mobile Game with Disney – Disney Sorcerer’s Arena
XR: AR/MR/VR
Microsoft unveils the $3,500 HoloLens 2 AR headset built for comfort and immersion
China
Mini Programs: The apps inside apps that make WeChat so powerful
Taiwanese horror game Devotion pulled from Steam after Chinese backlash over Winnie the Pooh meme mocking Xi Jinping
Overtime
"The Best Game Design Ideas from GDC"
The Chaos of Patching Hades - Developing Hell #02
"AR Will Spark the Next Big Tech Platform—Call It Mirrorworld"
"Fortnite Is the Future, but Probably Not for the Reasons You Think"
Google’s Waymo risks repeating Silicon Valley’s most famous blunder
Amy Hennig interview — Surviving the trauma of making a video game and inspiring newcomers
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