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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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Fundraising Free-for-All
N3twork raises $40mm, welcomes former Lionsgate president to board
Take-Two leads $20mm funding round into Spellbreak developer Proletariat
Mythical Games raises $19mm for blockchain-based games with ‘player-owned economies’
Ex-Peak team at Dream Games raises $7.5 million for mobile puzzle games
Arkane veterans launch WolfEye: a small studio making big games
Bunch raises $3.85mm for social mobile party app for gamers
Insights
HBR: How to Design Product Pages that Increase Online Sales
Sensor Tower: Apple Arcade may be accelerating premium game decline, but not by much
Newzoo: How Men and Women Discover and Choose Games in the West
Insights from Piper Jaffray's Generation Z survey of 9,500 U.S. teens
Blog: Has the hypercasual game genre peaked?
Streaming
Amazon reportedly announcing game streaming service next year
Microsoft's xCloud leaders discuss what they've learned (and still need to learn) about game streaming
Amy Hennig’s new studio will make ‘story-focused’ games for ‘emerging streaming platforms’
XR: AR / MR / VR
Half-Life: Alyx comes to PC VR in March
Oculus Link beta hands-on: How Quest might kill Rift S for wired PC VR
Lenovo plans sleek AR glasses that let PC users see multiple workspaces
Facebook’s DeepFovea AI promises power-efficient VR foveated rendering
Ubiquity6 launches Display.land app to capture, edit, and share augmented reality spaces
New Star-Wars-like 3D display that simultaneously projects video, sound, and even the sensation of touch
Tech / Entertainment
Sony establishes AI R&D division
DeepMind’s MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
Facebook’s first experimental apps from its ‘NPE Team’ division focus on students, chat & music
U.S. Lawmakers Propose Bill Limiting Government's Use of Facial Recognition
Related: Hikvision, one of China's biggest smart camera & face recognition companies, ran a marketing campaign promoting its ability to spot ethnic minorities
Overtime
Paid subscriptions coming to Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
Blizzard 'has completely changed,' say Diablo's original creators
Why ‘The Mandalorian’ cites Fortnite dev Epic Games in its credits
How doctors used VR and 3D printing to save a 2-year-old with a brain tumor
Iran has turned off the internet, reacting to ongoing protests
HBR: Why “Connector” Managers Build Better Talent
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