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Each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I share with other Rioters, including Riot’s senior leadership. This edition is the public version that I publish broadly every week as well. Opinions are mine.
Hi, my name is Kenny Liu, and I work in Revenue Strategy at Riot Games. Each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I share with other Rioters, including Riot’s senior leadership. This edition is the public version that I publish broadly every week as well. Opinions are mine.
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Revenue Strategy
50-slide deck by a16z partner Andrew Chen on how to build a growth team
Early access is boosting sales of special edition games
Esports marries gambling in Complexity Gaming and WinStar partnership
PC/Console
"Microsoft's two-hour Game Pass advert told us everything about the future of Xbox"
Discord gets its own Early Access program for unfinished games
Mobile
The Brief History—and Uncertain Future—of Foldable Phones
Related: How foldable phones like Samsung’s newest handset work
"Forget the notch, your next smartphone might have a hole in the screen"
Jam City secures multi-year deal with Disney
Supercell invests $5.6m in smartwatch experts Everywear Games
“During the past three years, we became the world’s leading creator of smartwatch games. Our experience with smartwatch games has taught us a lot and now we are taking these learnings to create even better game experiences
With our unique background we are looking to craft the next success stories in mobile gaming”
XR: AR/MR/VR
How Samsung & Skydance view the evolving world of VR
"But really, most of the money right now is going to AR. Part of the reason for that is that AR doesn’t have the limitations in VR that we were talking about earlier. The platforms are much more open. AR is more robust. People are more familiar with it. It’s more usable for the regular user, outside the VR demographic we were talking about
Having said that, all of our new products coming out in 2019 and onward will incorporate AR and VR together. They will not be separate products. We’ll have AR wearables out. Several will be coming out over the next two years. They’re intended more for the regular user that just wants utility applications, rather than a full entertainment suite. But we don’t think VR is going away"
Magic Leap Kicks Off Eight-Figure Indie Development Grant
North, formerly Thalmic Labs, opens its first Focals smart glasses retail stores
Huawei could be planning to make AR glasses
China
Tencent wants to pay developers more to make better games for WeChat
China's "self-media" (WeChat & Weibo) under fire by authorities, ordered to clean up publishing “chaos”
Forget 5G, China is working on 6G
Overtime
The Economist: China’s gaming crackdown should worry the industry elsewhere
Two years on, Overwatch's producers talk toxicity, crunch, and live game dev
Snapchat Getting Murder-Mystery Scripted Series From Elisabeth Murdoch’s Vertical Networks
HQ Trivia was a blockbuster hit — but internal turmoil and a shrinking audience have pushed its company to the brink
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