Lindsay Rowntree
Head of Content
Articles by Lindsay
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Tencent Purchases Controlling Stake in Huya; Nintendo in Data Breach
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the prevalent business stories in gaming. In today’s news: Tencent takes over China’s streaming market with USD$262m Huya stake; Around 160,000 Nintendo accounts comprised in data beach; and Google abandons Stadia Base branding as it launches free tier. Tencent takes over China’s streaming market with USD$262m Huya stake Chinese technology giant Tencent has purchased a controlling stake in the Twitch-like streaming service Huya – and as a result a dominant position in the market. Earlier this month, Tencent [...]
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Epic Games Acquires Houseparty; Riot Games in Trouble with Gender Discrimination Investigation
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Epic Games acquires social platform Houseparty; Riot Games in trouble with gender discrimination investigation; and The Esports Global Fund launches. Epic Games acquires social platform Houseparty Houseparty, the face-to-face social network, has been acquired by Fortnite and Unreal Engine creators, Epic Games. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. According to the announcement from Houseparty, the deal will help the social platform connect even more friends, families [...]
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Nintendo Impresses Consumers with E3 Game Line-Up; Microsoft Could Set Sights on Asia
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Nintendo impresses consumers with dazzling E3 game line-up; Microsoft could set sights on Asia; and Nintendo speaks out against crunch. Nintendo impresses consumers with dazzling E3 game line-up Always closely watched at E3, Nintendo came up with the goods at its press event. With people having already asserted that Nintendo has ‘won’ E3, something every company aims to do each year, the company focused on software for existing hardware, [...]
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New Xbox Console will Offer Backwards Compatibility; Ubisoft to Launch Subscription Service
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: New Xbox console will offer backwards compatibility; Ubisoft to launch subscription service; and Google Stadia will support publisher-specific subscriptions. New Xbox console to offer backwards compatibility Microsoft announced that all Xbox 360 games will be able to be played on Xbox One; big news, and something Xbox players have been demanding for a long time. Yesterday (10 June) Microsoft released the news on their official ‘Inside Xbox’ video series [...]
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Microsoft Acquires Double Fine; Tencent Sells Glu Mobile Shares
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Microsoft acquires Double Fine; Tencent sells Glu Mobile shares; and Bethesda Softworks announces cloud gaming platform. Microsoft acquires Double Fine (& confirms new Xbox) Microsoft has confirmed it’s bought beloved games studio, Double Fine Productions. Microsoft announced at its E3 keynote is was buying the games creator, founded by LucasArts’ Tim Schafer. Double Fine, known as one of the first studios to crowdfund its game, Broken Age, in a Kickstarter [...]
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Harry Potter Game Gets 100,000 Installs in 1st Month; Gamestop Shares Slump to 16-Year Low
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Harry Potter game achieves 100,000 installs in first month; Gamestop shares slump to 16-year low; Zynga launches exclusive Snapchat game. Harry Potter game achieves 100,000 installs in first month Harry Potter: Wizards Unite launched into open beta in Australia and New Zealand on 1 May, 2019 and the game, from Niantic and Warner Bros, has been installed over 100,000 times since from the App Store and Google Play, according [...]
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Google Teases Stadia Details; WeQ Acquires Booster Studios
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Google teases Stadia details; WeQ acquires Booster Studios; and BlueStacks launches SDK for developers to publish Android games to Steam. Google teases Stadia details Google has subtly announced it will soon (6 June) be releasing details of its upcoming cloud-based games console, Stadia. A static image on a YouTube video announces Stadia Connect, launching 9AM PDT/6pm CEST on 6 June. It will reveal pricing, games, and launch details. The [...]
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Industry Veterans Release Game Development Platform; Cuphead Launching for Tesla Cars
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the latest news from the world of gaming. In today’s edition: Industry veterans release new game development platform, Coherence; Shoot ’em up, Cuphead, is launching for Tesla cars; and Apple releases iOS 13. Industry veterans release coherence Playdead co-founder, Dino Patti, and Unity co-founder, David Helgason, aim to democratise the creation of online games with the launch of Coherence, a cloud-based, open-source development platform. Coherence will bring the development of multiplayer games to the masses, where technical [...]
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The Next Gaming Giants: What We Can Learn from Recent Mobile Acquisitions
In the span of five years, mobile gaming has grown from the smallest segment of the gaming market to a USD$70bn (£61.6bn) industry. It’s unsurprising then, that the past couple of years have been huge for mobile gaming acquisitions, from Zynga buying Gram Games to Niantic adding VR-focused Seismic Games. In this piece, Simon Spaull (pictured below), MD EMEA, AppLovin, charts the most significant acquisitions in the mobile gaming space of late and what they signal for the future of the [...]
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Announcing the Launch of DTCDaily.com & DTC London
WireCorp currently operates three publications (ExchangeWire, RetailTechNews, and TheGamingEconomy), covering the digital advertising, retail technology, and gaming sectors. The stand-out trend of 2018 across all these news sites was the rise of the direct-to-consumer (challenger) brand. Direct-to-consumer (DTC) is the biggest trend in marketing right now. Owning the relationship with customers has become the go-to strategy for next-generation brands, like Dollar Shave Club, Casper, Warby Parker, Monzo, and Airbnb. This has impacted the broader marketing ecosystem, as DTC brands forgo traditional [...]
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