TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the prevalent business stories in gaming. In today’s news: Griffin Gaming Partners raises USD$235m (£178m); Enthusiast Gaming applies for Nasdaq listing; and ironSource reportedly preparing for IPO. Griffin Gaming Partners raises USD$235m (£178m) Griffin Gaming Partners has raised USD$235m (£178m) to invest in the video games industry, with approximately half of the funds going towards gaming platforms and technologies, while the remaining 50% will support smaller-scaled development studios. Similarly, approximately half of the raised capital will support [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the prevalent business stories in gaming. In today’s news: Corsair in USD$238m (£187m) IPO; Streamloots secures €4.73m (£4.34m); and Dreamhaven launches. Corsair in USD$238m IPO Gaming hardware company Corsair Gaming Inc. has completed its initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker CRSR, with a listing price of USD$17 (£13.4) per share in the tranche of 14 million, netting the company USD$238m (£187m). This gave Corsair a valuation of approximately USD$1.3bn (£1.0bn), representing significant [...]

In this special exclusive contributed piece, Dimoso CEO Jacki Vause considers the fine art of publishing mobile games to China. Vause is a widely respected veteran of the tech, mobile and PR space, has been named one of PCR’s Top-30 Women in Mobile, and is an experienced entrepreneur and founder. — China should be considered by all mobile games developers who are looking to take their games global. Over the years I have represented many developers and publishers both from the East [...]

As part of the recent UK budget, the government confirmed that it is pressing ahead with its somewhat controversial Digital Services Tax. As reported by the Financial times, the UK plans to raise £500m a year by applying the tax primarily to large US tech companies. It is being seen as a means to secure money in relation to allegations that many large tech outfits are not paying enough tax in the areas in which they operate, instead using low tax [...]

Audio-first and audio-only games have to-date offered a fascinating micro niche within the gaming medium. In the late 1990s the visionary musician and game designer Kenji Eno released a game with very few visuals at all for the Sega Saturn and Dreamcast called Real Sound: Kaze no Regret. The idea was that blind and sighted players could enjoy the same experience. A few years later Nintendo debuted SoundVoyager for the GameBoy Advance, which challenged you not to look at the screen [...]

The classic video game arcade has almost become a trope for nostalgia. They appear across contemporary fiction as shorthand for a fondly remembered version of the 1970s and 1980s. The arcade’s ‘passing’ is often lamented in tandem with warm, fuzzy memories of growing up in those decades; even if that lamenting started while arcades were still active. Indeed, arcades are still active. Here in the UK there may be very little of any ‘arcade industry’ remaining, and that is true at many [...]

In this special contributed feature by Wilhelm Voutilainen, senior game analyst at GameRefinery looks at what we can learn about mobile gaming by looking back to the previous year, pulling insights from the company’s considerable pool of data. — So here we are in 2020 – not just a new year, but the start of a whole new decade. We’ve returned to our desks full of heady optimism, and focused on the future. Looking back at the past year can often be [...]

It’s easy to feel instinctively optimistic about in-game advertising. In recent years there’s been a powerful sense that in-game ads aren’t simply an increasingly valuable means of income for developers and publishers; perhaps they’re now understood and embraced by more consumers and industry figures than ever before. Furthermore, there is an ever more diverse spread of games, markets and consumers where ads are fitting. And now it feels like there are a greater number of platforms, approaches and tools through which [...]

TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Adobe acquires Facebook’s VR sculpting tool Medium; Epic Game Store enables third-parties to offer in-game purchases; Bethesda puts The Elder Scrolls Legends development on hold. Adobe acquires Facebook’s VR sculpting tool Medium Creative software provider Adobe has acquired the VR sculpting tool Medium from Facebook for an undisclosed sum. Launched by the social media giant in December 2016, the art tool previously let users of VR systems paint, sculpt [...]

TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Facebook acquires Beat Games; Candy Crush Saga passes USD$2bn (£1.6bn) in revenue; and Coffee Stain invests in Kavalri. Facebook acquires Beat Games Facebook has acquired VR developer Beat Games for an undisclosed sum, with the Prague-based firm now set to join Oculus Studios stable. Beat Games is behind Beat Saber, one of the best-selling VR titles which passed the one million sales figure in February this year. The [...]