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.
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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
- Qualcomm says it’ll work with OEMs to build tethered AR/VR headsets for smartphones
China
- Five Chinese 5G phones from this year’s Mobile World Congress
- Related: China reacts to Huawei's foldable phone: “It used to be I don’t have money, so I buy Huawei. But now, it's I don’t have money to buy Huawei"
- 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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