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Each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I publish broadly. Opinions are mine.
Hi, my name is Kenny Liu, and each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I publish broadly. Opinions are mine.
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Creative
Interview with Hideo Kojima About Death Stranding
Related: Inside Kojima Productions
HBR: The Kind of Creative Thinking That Fueled WeChat’s Success
PC / Console
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
Mobile
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
XR: AR / MR / VR
Microsoft starts shipping Hololens 2 for $3,500
Pokémon Go will get new AR features like shared AR and user-curated waypoints
Related: One million locations nominated weekly for Niantic's Real World Platform
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
Esports & Influencers
China
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
Tech / Entertainment
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
Overtime
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
Related: Content spending stagnating on PC & console as players gravitate toward fewer titles overall
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
"You enter the game with a group of friends, and allow the app to access your camera roll. Photo Roulette randomly selects a photo from one person’s camera roll to display for five seconds, and you win points by guessing whose photo it is. The process repeats for 15 photos, when the game ends"
Microsoft Japan's four-day week trial boosts productivity by 40%
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