Kliuless? Gaming Industry Insights #49
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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Business Strategy
- Ogilvy & Mather's eight virtues to espouse a creativity-focused culture
- EA launches cloud gaming technical trial
- Mobile marketing firm AppLovin invests in game studios
- Stratechery: The iPhone and Apple’s Services Strategy
- Related: Apple Arcade will cost $4.99 per month, debuts September 19
- UK parliamentary committee recommends banning loot box sales to children
XR: AR / MR / VR
- Nintendo teases Switch peripheral focused on physical exercise
- How HTC crafted Vive Cosmos for a new generation of consumer VR
Esports
- How 100 Thieves became the Supreme of e-sports
- Team SoloMid to begin construction on $13-million esports training center in Playa Vista
Asia
- Igniting a Chinese fighting game revolution
- WeChat Unveils New Device That Allows Customers to Pay with Their Face
Tech / Entertainment
- WP: How Apple uses its App Store to copy the best ideas
- Bloomberg: Disney Plans Sale of Video-Game Unit Acquired From Fox
- Looking to become the video-based social network of the gaming world, Medal.tv raises $9 million
Overtime
- What we can learn from Nordic developers
- Remedy's Control is built on [brutalist] foundations
- Gameboard-1 will be a digital slate for your tabletop board games
- Eurogamer's 20 best games of the past 20 years (that never get into top 20 lists)
- Celeste developers form new studio
- Drivetime raises $11m for games drivers can play on the road
- Improbable acquires Scavengers developer Midwinter Entertainment
- HBR: Ranking 42 Countries by Ease of Doing Digital Business
- NYT: California Approves Statewide Rent Control to Ease Housing Crisis
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