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Kliuless #51: Apple Arcade & Google Play Pass
Each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I publish broadly. Opinions are mine.
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Kliuless? Gaming Industry Insights #51
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
Business Development
LVP raises $80m in seed funding for video game startups
Manticore Games raises $30 million to enable a new generation of game creators
Improbable acquires The Multiplayer Guys
Unity acquires game marketing and analytics specialist deltaDNA
App Annie acquires mobile analytics firm Libring alongside rebrand
Epic paid 505 Games parent over $10m for Control PC exclusivity
Nintendo experiments with subscription through Mario Kart Tour's Gold Pass
Art / Design
The Animation of Hollow Knight
Survival mastery will build “a lingua franca” in the PUBG community
The Small But Important Change 'Celeste' Made to Its Celebrated Assist Mode
Mobile
All 71 launch games for Apple Arcade
Google Play Pass offers 350+ Android apps and games for $5/month
Related: Devs that sign on to Play Pass are paid by the time players spend in their games
Report: Facebook News Feed getting 60% of total ad spend across Facebook, Instagram
Report: The State of Mobile Internet Connectivity 2019
XR: AR / MR / VR
Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world
Apple seeks patent on retinal hologram projectors for AR glasses
Oculus Quest will get hand-tracking, Oculus Link to play Rift PC games
Ex-Owlchemy devs land $4.4 million for new XR studio absurd:joy
Respawn's first VR game is Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond
Intel True View is a cool technology for immersive sports viewing
Bloomberg: Virtual Reality Is the Latest Dinner Party Trick
Esports
Enthusiast Gaming completes complex merger with Luminosity
Louis Vuitton partners with Riot Games on League of Legends World Championship
Tech / Entertainment
The Complete Beginner’s Guide to TikTok
Bloomberg: Facebook to Buy Startup for Controlling Computers With Your Mind
Hollywood & games 4.0 — How the love-hate relationship has evolved over time
The Reimagining of Imagine Entertainment: Ron Howard & Brian Grazer Entering Streaming Video Wars
Overtime
The 50 best video games of the 21st century
Project xCloud game-streaming test goes public in October
Dead Cells' creators are handing off development to new studio
Ubisoft put an official video game design course inside a video game
PlayStation cuts out the middleman, starts selling its own consoles and more online
The Secret to Success of Supergiant Games: No Forced Crunch, Yes Forced Vacations
‘Close Friends’ on Instagram, for a Monthly Fee
For Gen Z, it’s all about just hanging out on FaceTime
The making of Devotion, China's least favourite horror game
Niko Partners: Asia cloud gaming to reach $3 billion and 60 million gamers by 2023
Chinese influencer simultaneously live-streaming on 40 accounts
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