Sponsored By

Featured Blog | This community-written post highlights the best of what the game industry has to offer. Read more like it on the Game Developer Blogs.

Hi, my name is Kenny Liu, and each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I publish broadly. Opinions are mine.

Kenneth Liu, Blogger

July 22, 2019

2 Min Read

Kliuless? Gaming Industry ICYMI #41

Hi, my name is Kenny Liu, and each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I publish broadly. Opinions are mine.

See more or subscribe at: https://tinyletter.com/kliuless

Diversity Training

  • HBR: Does Diversity Training Work the Way It’s Supposed To?

  • "What did we find? Let’s start with the good news. The bias-focused trainings had a positive effect on the attitudes of one important group: employees who we believe were the least supportive of women prior to training"

  • "But did the training change behavior? This brings us to the bad news. We found very little evidence that diversity training affected the behavior of men or white employees overall—the two groups who typically hold the most power in organizations and are often the primary targets of these interventions"

Shooters

  • Fortnite streaming hours drop for fourth straight quarter

  • PUBG banned in Jordan, Fortnite expected to be banned as well

  • How Fortnite, Apex Legends, and PUBG appeal to different people

  • Respawn will deal with Apex Legends cheaters by making them fight each other

  • Blizzard testing automatic shutdown for Overwatch matches where players are cheating

  • How Brendan Greene created the PUBG phenomenon and then moved on to something new

XR: AR / MR / VR

  • Samsung seeks patent on folding AR glasses with frame-activated screen

  • Rumor: Apple has killed AR glasses project

China

  • NetEase invests in Dead by Daylight maker Behaviour Interactive

  • Tencent launches app for streaming PC games to smartphones (currently only supporting LoL)

  • Chinese live-streaming platform DouYu unveils IPO pricing 

Tech / Entertainment

  • NYT: The Great Race to Rule Streaming TV

  • Huawei’s first TV is a ‘smartphone that’s 100 times bigger’  

Overtime

See more or subscribe at: https://tinyletter.com/kliuless

LinkedIn: @kliuless

Read more about:

Featured Blogs

About the Author(s)

Daily news, dev blogs, and stories from Game Developer straight to your inbox

You May Also Like