Kliuless? Gaming Industry ICYMI #32
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 broadly within Riot. This edition is the public version that I publish broadly every week as well. Opinions are mine.
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PC / Console
- Apex Legends has lost its huge momentum
- Twitch’s first-ever video game is a free karaoke title built for live streaming
- What to Expect from Sony's Next-Gen Playstation
- Xbox One S All-Digital Edition launches May 7
- Related: Xbox merges Live Gold and Game Pass under Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
Asia
- Tencent wins key approval to sell Nintendo's Switch in China
- Tencent launches its own take on CryptoKitties & Pokemon Go!
- Rumor: Tencent to develop its own gaming phone
- Working 9 to 9: Chinese tech workers push back against long hours
- TikTok, PUBG Mobile face bans in India over fears they're corrupting kids
Tech / Entertainment
- Stratechery: Disney and the Future of TV
- FT: Apple spends hundreds of millions on Arcade video game service
Overtime
- Ninja named to Time 100
- Interview with Amy Hennig
- Mark Brown: How Games Get Balanced
- Capcom debuts its own classic system, a $260 plug-n-play home arcade
- WP: How Dungeons & Dragons somehow became more popular than ever
- OpenAI bot crushes Dota 2 champions, and now anyone can play against it
- Esports organization Gen.G gets $46mm in funding from Will Smith and Stanford
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