TGE Index Investment Report - Q4 & Year-End 2020
2020 highlights - Total investment and M&A activity across the video games industry tracked by the TGE Index through April-December 2020 reached USD$37.890bn from 406 disclosed transactions (501 total). Adding averaged publicly-available data for Q1 gives a full-year approximation of USD$40.572bn [...]
Analysis: PlayStation Passing on E3 Attendence
PlayStation is skipping on attending E3 this year, just a few months before it plans to launch the PS5. A decade or so ago, that would have seemed like a very peculiar move. E3 has long been the place to announce [...]
Xbox Series X Revealed; Game.tv Raises USD$25m (£19m)
TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Xbox Series X revealed; Game.tv raises USD$25m (£19m); and High Fidelity lays off 50% of staff. Xbox Series X revealed Microsoft has revealed its next generation console, the [...]
Hands-on With Google Stadia: The Future of Gaming?
Late last week TheGamingEconomy headed to the upper floors of Google’s central-London offices so as to spend a little time hands on with Stadia. Even in the few days since that preview opportunity, updated news about the platform’s arrival has continued [...]
Streaming and the Cloud: What We Learned from Microsoft's XO19 Event
Last night was a big night for Xbox. Microsoft hosted its X019 event in London, which was plump with announcements. If one theme dominated, though, it was the delivery of games as a service. Both Game Pass and Project xCloud enjoyed plenty [...]
Microsoft Gaming Revenue Declines by 7%; Sumo Digital Opens North West Studio
TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Microsoft gaming revenue declines by 7%; Sumo Digital opens North West studio; and Tencent becomes majority shareholder of Supercell. Microsoft gaming revenue declines by 7% Microsoft results from [...]
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