TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the prevalent business stories in gaming. In today’s news: Tencent revenue up 21%; video game usage rises amid Covid-19; and users prefer non-intrusive gaming ads to display units. Tencent revenue up 21% Tencent Holdings Limited has posted [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: 55% of UK dev jobs are outside of London and the South East; Atari to open gaming hotels; and USD$10m-plus (£7.68m-plus) contracts for top streamers departing Twitch 55% [...]

TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Rambler Media Group to sue Twitch for RUB₽180bn (£2.145bn); global gaming app revenue hits USD$41.5bn (£31.1bn); and Animoca Brands to acquire nWay for USD$7.69m (£5.76m). Rambler Media [...]

In this special contributed piece Erick Fang, CEO of AI-driven ad platform Mintegral, explores the opportunity and challenges around cloud gaming. And as the release of Google Stadia nears, he considers how the roll-out of 5G will found any potential... March’s [...]

TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Tenacious Entertainment raises USD$3.3m (£2.7m); content streamed on Mixer triples; and Hearthstone player banned for Hong Kong protest support. Tenacious Entertainment raises USD$3.3m (£2.7m) Washington-based mobile developer Tenacious [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Niantic shuts down Field Trip; Growth slows on Twitch; Respawn forces cheaters to fight each other. Niantic shuts down Field Trip Niantic has announced that it will be shutting [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Games make up almost 75% of global mobile spend in H1 2019; League of Legends is most viewed game on Twitch; Pokémon GO grosses USD$2.65bn (£2.12bn) in [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: global gaming market set to generate USD$152.1bn (£121.3bn) in 2019; Bernie Sanders endorses game industry unionisation; and Twitch acquires social networking platform Bebo. Global gaming market set to [...]

Gaming giant Epic has removed a player-created scene from the Fortnite gameplay map after the game's fans reported that it depicted seriously problematic content. TheGamingEconomy will offer a brief warning here; this article will necessarily make very occasional and passing references to [...]

Google has made its move on gaming with the announcement of streaming platform Stadia.  The news came on the second day of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco; and it surely stands as one of the most significant gaming reveals [...]