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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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Business Strategy
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
Design
Level Design Patterns in 2D Games
Breaking linear character progression with Outer Worlds' flaw system
Cross-Platform / Multi-Platform
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
PC / Console
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'
Mobile
LG Patents a Smartphone Case with a Flexible Display
Samsung's next foldable phone could be this RAZR-like clamshell
XR: AR / MR / VR
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
Esports & Influencers
The Future of Influencer Marketing Is in China
How one company orchestrated a talent war between Twitch, Mixer, and YouTube
Related: Facebook Gaming grows 210% in 2019 as it battles Twitch, YouTube
NYT: Hype House and the Los Angeles TikTok Mansion Gold Rush
Asia
Chinese spend ~2 days/week on their smartphones
China to further regulate online games and streaming to curb addiction
Related: Video games are dividing South Korea
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
Tech / Entertainment
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
​Related: Interview with Netflix’s Ted Sarandos on Streaming, Competition, and What’s Next
Matthew Ball: 11 Lessons from the Success of Disney+
Related: Disney+ is now getting two big Marvel series in 2020
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
Overtime
VentureBeat's 29 games that defined the 2010s
The 15 Best Games You Probably Missed in 2019
Related: The 10 Best Buried Treasures Of 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
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