Kliuless #64: 2020 Visions for the Future

Analysts dole out 2020 predictions

Matthew Ball: 7 Reasons Why Video Gaming Will Take Over

Hidden Benefits of Digital Marketing Attribution Modeling

Shopify: A StarCraft Inspired Business Strategy

Level Design Patterns in 2D Games

Breaking linear character progression with Outer Worlds' flaw system

Grand Theft Auto V comes to Xbox Game Pass

Dell's 'Concept UFO' is a Switch-like portable gaming PC

Rainway lets you play your PC games on mobile devices or web browsers

At 10m players, Xbox calls Sea of Thieves its most successful new IP this gen

Only two of the biggest Steam games in 2019 were new releases [KL: GaaS continues]

Platinum Games will use Tencent investment to 'explore self-publishing'

LG Patents a Smartphone Case with a Flexible Display

Samsung's next foldable phone could be this RAZR-like clamshell

Sensor Tower: Pokémon GO Has Best Year Ever in 2019 (~$900m in player spend)

The Information: Facebook’s Chief Scientist Predicts Mass Adoption of AR Is 5-10 Years Away

NextMind is building a real-time brain computer interface, unveils Dev Kit for $399 [KL: wow]

Samsung’s ‘artificial human’ project looks like a digital avatar

New Yorker: Taking Virtual Reality for a Test Drive

The Future of Influencer Marketing Is in China

How one company orchestrated a talent war between Twitch, Mixer, and YouTube

NYT: Hype House and the Los Angeles TikTok Mansion Gold Rush

Chinese spend ~2 days/week on their smartphones

China to further regulate online games and streaming to curb addiction

Simplified Chinese is now the dominant language among Steam users

The Defining Chinese Video Games of the 2010s

Chinese apps are losing their hold on India

The Witcher 3 hits new peak player record on Steam in wake of Netflix show [KL: great public case study]

Bloomberg: Netflix Made More Films Than Any Other Studio. Now It Wants an Oscar

Matthew Ball: 11 Lessons from the Success of Disney+

Apple TV+ just hired HBO ex-CEO Richard Plepler

Quibi raises $400 million to make more bite-sized shows

Streaming now accounts for 80% of the U.S. music market

Amazon sees Alexa devices more than double in just one year

15 Years of Y Combinator Investments

Stratechery: The End of the Beginning

VentureBeat's 29 games that defined the 2010s

The 15 Best Games You Probably Missed in 2019

How Sony's PlayStation 2 took the world by storm

The making of Disco Elysium, Outer Wilds, and Wolfenstein

Fantasy Flight Interactive to close after company-wide layoffs

SuperData: Games hit $120bn in 2019, with Fortnite topping $1.8bn

Sony reports 103m MAU on PSN, and 5m VR headsets sold

Google uses AI to improve breast cancer screening

10 important lessons learned from the 2010s