TGE Index Investment Report - Q4 & Year-End 2020
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 [...]
Over 4,000 developers Have Signed Up to Google Stadia Partners; Winners Announced for the Develop:Star 2019 Awards
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Over 4,000 developers have signed up to Google Stadia Partners; winners announced for the Develop:Star 2019 Awards; and the Nintendo Switch Lite not a replacement for the [...]
Cuphead to Be Made Into Netflix Show; Nintendo Debuts Switch Lite
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Cuphead to be made into Netflix show; Nintendo debuts Switch Lite; and Amazon is developing a Lord of the Rings MMO. Cuphead to be made into Netflix show Cuphead, [...]
Games Make Up Almost 75% of Global Mobile Spend in H1 2019; League of Legends is Most Viewed Game on Twitch
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 [...]
Tencent Leads Efforts to Build China Age Ratings System; HQ Trivia Lays Off 20% of Staff
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Tencent leads efforts to build age ratings system in China; HQ Trivia lays off approximately 20% of staff; and worldwide mobile gaming revenue hits USD$29.6bn (£23.6bn) in [...]
The entrepreneurs behind EMEA’s £54b mobile games industry that no one is talking about
In this special guest authored piece, AppLovin's managing director EMEA Simon Spaull shines a spotlight on some of the lesser talked about mobile entrepreneurs currently making waves in a gigantic gaming sector. AppLovin provides a suite of tools to help [...]
Candy Crush designer expected game would be ‘dead in six months’; French government attempting to lure British game developers post-Brexit
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Candy Crush designer expected game would be ‘dead in six months’; French government attempting to lure British game developers post-Brexit; and US hacker behind gaming DDoS attacks [...]
Paradox Interactive deems 70:30 revenue split ‘outrageous’; Epic pledges crowdfunder refunds for Epic Game Store exclusives
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Paradox Interactive deems 70:30 revenue split ‘outrageous’; Epic pledges crowdfunder refunds for Epic Game Store exclusives; and DJ Marshmello releases new album via mobile game ‘Marshmello Music [...]
ironSource debuts new cross-platform mobile cross-promotion solution
Mobile monetisation and marketing outfit ironSource has launched a new cross-platform solution that enables mobile developers to manage cross promotion campaigns while utilising a suite of ad network capabilities. Available to those that use the ironSource mediation platform - which TheGamingEconomy [...]
Snap Games details real-time multiplayer focus for hyper causal Snapchat games
As one of the dominant social platforms for teenage and young adult users, Snapchat is an obvious home for hyper casual instant games. That's something the platform's team are keenly aware of, it would seem, as a number of games have [...]
G2A Under Fire From Developers; Sony Interactive Entertainment Considering Game Company Acquisitions
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: G2A under fire from developers; Sony Interactive Entertainment considering game company acquisitions; more than one million people per month still playing Age of Empires. G2A under fire from [...]
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