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Each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I share broadly within Riot. 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 broadly within Riot. This edition is the public version that I publish broadly every week as well. Opinions are mine.
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Platform Wars
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney on 250 million Fortnite players, digital humans, and $100 million dev fund
Google Unveils Stadia, a Video Game Streaming Service That Could Threaten Xbox and PlayStation
Opinion: Google Stadia has promise, but GDC failed to address its biggest obstacles
Related: Google Stadia hands-on: streaming analysis and controller impressions
Related: Why Phil Harrison joined Google to launch the Stadia cloud gaming platform
Related: Interview with Phil Harrison and Majd Bakar on Google Stadia
Related: Jade Raymond will head Google’s own game studio, Stadia Games and Entertainment
Walmart is Talking to Developers and Publishers About a Potential Streaming Service
Design
How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games
Reddit: Deconstruction of Apex Legends' Season 1 Battle Pass
Overwatch saw 40% less disruptive behavior with endorsement system
How Arkane built a roguelike atop an immersive sim with Prey's Mooncrash DLC
Do you have a self-actualised personality? Maslow revisited
"'Taken together, this total pattern of data supports Maslow’s contention that self-actualised individuals are more motivated by growth and exploration than by fulfilling deficiencies in basic needs,' Kaufman writes. He adds that the new empirical support for Maslow’s ideas is ‘quite remarkable’ given that Maslow put them together with ‘a paucity of actual evidence’"
PC/Console
Battlefield V’s Firestorm battle royale mode launches March 25
Mobile
Dota Auto Chess heads to mobile without Dota
Activision partners with Tencent for Call of Duty Mobile set for release in Western markets
Related: NetEase takes on Call of Duty Mobile with new shooter Disorder
XR: AR/MR/VR
Opinion: Overview of current VR headset market
Nate Mitchell & Jason Rubin discuss how two-pronged approach with Quest & Rift S will finally bring down barriers to VR
Google Maps platform adds new styles and gameplay options for mobile games
Google’s Gradient Ventures joins $58 million investment in AR startup Mojo Vision
Angry Birds’ first AR outing is hitting Apple devices later this Spring
Asia
Four Indian cities ban PUBG Mobile with 10 arrested so far
China to Overtake U.S. in AI Research
Smartphone sales in China plummet to their lowest in six years
Tencent UP 2019 – Quick look at new games announced at annual event
Profile of Steven Ma, head of Tencent's Interactive Entertainment Group [Chinese, Google translated]
No sleep, no sex, no life: tech workers in China’s Silicon Valley face burnout before they reach 30
Tech
Facebook adds dedicated gaming tab to its mobile app
Rumor: Snapchat to Launch Gaming Platform Next Month
After rolling out mini games, ByteDance has reportedly purchased a gaming company
Blog: What is Amazon?
Thirty original pitch decks for successful startups
Bloomberg: Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Begins
Bloomberg: Amazon’s Alexa has 80,000 Apps—and No Runaway Hit
Instagram adds in-app checkout as part of its big push into shopping
Overtime
Review of world's first VR gym opening in San Francisco
Danny Bilson to lead USC Games into the interactive future
EA creates high-end competitive gaming broadcast studio
Rumor: Call of Duty franchise spots to sell at $25 million per team
Nintendo at 130: 'It’s on us to create that wow moment for players'
Slay the Spire has sold >1.5mm copies, with >40% coming from China
Epic Games shows off amazing digital human technology with Troll demo
New Yorker: The Division 2 and the Severing of Politics from Video Games
A dev trained robots to generate “garbage” slot machine games—and made $50K
Rumor: Top gamer 'Ninja' made $1 million to promote EA's 'Apex Legends' launch
China’s new social media craze: Paying random people to shower you with over-the-top compliments
Behind the scenes on Valve and Riot vets Chet Faliszek and Kimberly Voll's new co-op centric studio Stray Bombay
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