Kliuless #57: BlizzCon 2019

Designing the gameplay and aesthetic of Diablo IV

Interview with Hideo Kojima About Death Stranding

HBR: The Kind of Creative Thinking That Fueled WeChat’s Success

BlizzCon 2019: Every trailer and announcement

Switch Lite isn’t cannibalizing the Switch

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is now the best-selling fighting game of all time

Sony taps Horizon: Zero Dawn boss to lead PlayStation studios, while Yoshida steps down to focus on indie devs

Supercell shuts down Rush Wars after three months of beta

Why casual games like Homescapes are adding midcore guild community features

Mario Kart Tour multiplayer beta launching this December for Gold Pass subscribers 

Microsoft starts shipping Hololens 2 for $3,500

Pokémon Go will get new AR features like shared AR and user-curated waypoints

Niantic enables small businesses to sponsor events in location games

Niantic sets up $10mm third-party developer fund and names first dev contest winner

Uplandme introduces Monopoly-like game based on real-world property and blockchain  

Buy $1 virtual versions of $1,000 designer shoes for your avatar on fashion gaming app Ada

In the escalating fight between Twitch and Mixer, YouTube is the real winner

Esports tournament platform Mainline closes $6.8m funding round

Juked.gg creates an easy way to watch your favorite esports broadcasts

Improbable & Tencent Cloud team up to help devs bring games to China

China’s minors face new limits on mobile games in war on gaming addiction

China's regulator approved 22 new mobile games this week, including NetEase's Fantasy Westward Journey 3D

a16z: The Passion Economy

The State of Nvidia RTX Ray Tracing: One Year Later

Unity acquires cloud application streaming service creator Obvioos

BBC podcast interview with Disney CEO Bob Iger

U.S. opens national security investigation into TikTok

Inside the Rising Costs of Making a Scripted TV Series

AT&T surprises with HBO Max price in battle against Disney and Netflix

Super Evil Megacorp raises $10.5mm, moves on to new game, and hands Vainglory off to Rogue Games

Mobile & DLC maintained U.S. game spending despite 23% decline in PC and hardware sales this quarter

Gigabyte Launches a Water-Cooled External Graphics Card

'Nearly All' Counter-Strike Microtransactions Are Being Used for Money Laundering

WP: Struggling at Fortnite or Apex Legends? Players and parents are turning to tutors

Blizzard is adding ethnically diverse character skins with World of Warcraft: Shadowlands

New top app Photo Roulette is an interesting combo of game and social network

Microsoft Japan's four-day week trial boosts productivity by 40%