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 [...]
Miniclip to Acquire Ilyon Games; New Switch Console Rumoured for Mid-2020
TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Miniclip to acquire Ilyon Games; new Switch console rumoured for mid-2020; and Tencent invests in Platinum Games. Miniclip to acquire Ilyon Games Tencent-owned Miniclip has reached an agreement [...]
Team17 Acquires Yippee Entertainment; Worldwide Christmas App Spend Tops USD$277m (£209.6m); Nexon Sell off Gloops For JPN¥1 (£0.007)
TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Team17 picks up Yippee Entertainment; Worldwide Christmas spend on apps tops USD$277m (£209.6m); and Nexon sells off mobile development subsidiary for JPN¥1 (£0.007). Team17 picks up Yippee [...]
Facebook Acquires Cloud Gaming Outfit PlayGiga; Bidstack Secures £10m Agency Trade Deal
TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Facebook acquires cloud gaming outfit PlayGiga; Bidstack secures £10m Agency Trade Deal; and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare clears USD$1bn (£776.4m) in sales Facebook acquires cloud gaming [...]
Adobe acquires Facebook's Medium; Epic Game Store enables third-party in-game purchasing
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 [...]
Qualcomm and Niantic Collaborating on New AR Glasses; Wildlife Studios Raises USD$60m (£45.7m)
TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Qualcomm and Niantic collaborating on new AR glasses; Wildlife Studios raises USD$60m (£45.7m) for mobile portfolio; Gameloft closes UK studio. Qualcomm and Niantic collaborating on new AR [...]
Building a UA Strategy Around 'Affinity'
In this guest post by the CEO of the mobile game insights and market data specialist GameRefinery, Markus Ramark considers a new way to build your targeting, and looks at why understanding player 'affinity' with given games might unlock new [...]
The secret ingredient in AI-powered community moderation? Humans.
Tackling toxicity in online communities is a demanding, nuanced and sometimes thankless task. As communities around single games grow into tens of millions - or hundreds of millions in some cases - a tiny minority of problematic users can still [...]
EA Bullish on Cloud Gaming; Roblox Mobile Passes USD$1bn (£776m) in Lifetime Revenue
TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: EA bullish on cloud gaming; Roblox Mobile passes USD$1bn (£776m) in lifetime revenue; and Rebellion acquires The Bitmap Brothers portfolio. EA bullish on cloud gaming EA executives are [...]
Interview: AppLovin's Carl Livie on Making In-App Bidding Mainstream
Late last year mobile marketing platform AppLovin acquired in-app bidding start-up MAX. The AppLovin team has since built out the MAX platform, and integrated the real-time mobile header bidding solution into its wider ecosystem. Now MAX has had a little time [...]
App Store Paid Game Revenue At All-Time Low; German Bundestag Approves €50m (£42.8m) Games Funding
TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: App Store paid game revenue at all-time low; German Bundestag approves €50m (£42.8m) games funding; and Proletariat raises USD$20m (£15.5m) in Series C funding. App Store paid [...]
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