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 [...]
Amazon Hiring for Gaming ‘Stealth Advertising’ Team; Microsoft Invests USD$1bn (£799m) in OpenAI
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Amazon hiring for gaming ‘stealth advertising innovation’ team; Microsoft investing USD$1bn (£799m) in OpenAI; and Tencent invests in Antstream. Amazon hiring for ‘stealth advertising innovation’ to disrupt gaming [...]
Nintendo Faces Lawsuit Over Defective Switch Joy-Cons; EE Launches Partnership with Niantic
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Nintendo faces lawsuit over defective Switch Joy-Cons; EE launches partnership with Niantic; and Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce announces departure after 28 years. Nintendo faces lawsuit over defective Switch [...]
SkyWeaver dev Horizon Blockchain Games secures USD$3.74m (£2.97m) seed round
Canadian game dev and blockchain infrastructure outfit Horizon Blockchain Games has completed a USD$3.75m (£2.97m) seed round. Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s venture fund Initialized Capital led the round, which was also supported by Golden Ventures, Polychain, Coinbase, Digital Currency Group and [...]










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