Kliuless? Gaming Industry ICYMI #45
Hi, my name is Kenny Liu, and each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I publish broadly. Opinions are mine.
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Esports
- McKinsey: The keys to esports marketing
- Drodo Studio Announces Seven Partners for Auto Chess Invitational
- Super League Gaming & Tencent will start PUBG Mobile amateur esports
- Nintendo 2019 World Championships will work with Eleague to air on CBS
- Magic: The Gathering esports expands with Players Tour and Rivals League in 2020
- Hong Kong protests lead to cancellation of Street Fighter V esports tournament
Revenue Strategy
- Tencent doubling down on season passes as mobile titles drive revenue
- How Ark: Survival Evolved "fell into sustainable revenue" without skins or loot boxes
PC / Console
- What we can learn from... Warframe
- Bungie: Working on Destiny 2 "starting to wear people down”
- Xbox considers multi-platform options for some first-party studios
- Singularity 6 raises $16.5M from a16z to create a ‘virtual society’
- Klang raises $22.3 million for MMO space colony simulation Seed
- THQ Nordic acquires Darksiders dev Gunfire and racing studio Milestone, and has plans for new Saints Row and TimeSplitters
Mobile
- Survey: Consumers want a folding iPhone and will pay $600 more for it
- Samsung is baking Discord into its phones to let you chat with friends while mobile gaming
XR: AR / MR / VR
- Oculus VR cofounder Nate Mitchell is leaving Facebook
- Snap debuts dual-camera Spectacles 3 glasses to create 3D AR content
- Google Maps AR navigation launches in beta for compatible iOS and Android devices
Overtime
- Pakistani startup develops world’s first virtual reality Hajj simulator
- Quake director Tim Willits explains why he’s joining Saber Interactive
- Activision Blizzard appoints new Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer
- Unity releases game design and computer science tools for the classroom
- Investor bails Loot Crate out after firm goes bankrupt
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