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  • 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 [...]

  • Letting off Steam? Fortnite Dev Lifts Lid on Epic Games Store

    Just days after Epic Games' phenomenally successful Fortnite cleared 200 million registered users, the studio has announced that it is opening an online gaming store. When you you have already acquired an audience the size of Fortnite's, that is a step [...]

  • 'Tis the Season... to Get Your Game Ready for Christmas 2019

    It's easy to be ambitious when Christmas is a few months away. You tell yourself that you'll get all the Christmas shopping done by mid-November, and have the decorations up on the first day of Advent. Then suddenly it's December 24th [...]

  • Fortnite Hits 200 Million Players

    Video game sensation and global cultural phenomenon Fortnite now courts the attention of 200 million players. That's according to Bloomberg, which points out that the shooter's user base is now approximately comparable to the populace of sizeable nations like Brazil. Put [...]

  • Q&A: Reality Clash & the Arrival of Blockchain-Powered AR

    Reality Clash is an in-development mobile AR shooter that integrates blockchain, cryptocurrencies, dynamic in-game advertising, and geo-mapping technology into the gameplay experience it offers. Yes... there are a lot of tech buzzwords in that opening line. We'd only need to throw [...]

  • Mobile eSports as a Tool to Aquire & Retain: A Primer

    You don't need to be a devoted games industry observer to have noticed something of the recent rise of eSports. Organised competitive gaming has been around along time, of course. eSports' nascent form was forged in the earliest arcade gaming tournaments [...]

  • Data Democracy & the Support of Meritocratic Online Conversation: Q&A with Tim Wilson, CEO, Qutee

    The gaming community is vast, dynamic, and incredibly engaged. However, in many environments, the popular misperceptions of what a gamer is reign. Tim Wilson (pictured below), CEO, Qutee, is passionate about changing this and is an ardent advocate of data [...]