Kliuless #45: Esports Expands

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

Tencent doubling down on season passes as mobile titles drive revenue

How Ark: Survival Evolved "fell into sustainable revenue" without skins or loot boxes

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

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  

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

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