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• Niantic Shuts Down Field Trip; Growth Slows on Twitch

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  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 down its first mobile app, Field Trip, later this year. The location-based tour guide app was released in 2012, when the developer was in its former guise as Niantic Labs, an internal subsidiary of Google. While it is not unusual [...]

• Games Make Up Almost 75% of Global Mobile Spend in H1 2019; League of Legends is Most Viewed Game on Twitch

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  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 its first three years. Games make up almost 75% of global mobile spend in H1 2019 Worldwide mobile game revenue made up almost 75% of all spend on App Store and Google Play in the first half of the year, despite only [...]

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• Bungie Delays Destiny 2 Patch to Avoid Crunch; Harry Potter Wizards Unite Shifts 400,000 Units in First 24 Hours

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  TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Bungie delays Destiny 2 patch to avoid crunch; Harry Potter Wizards Unite shifts 400,000 units in first 24 hours; and subscription model won’t replace traditional game sales – Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment president. Bungie delays Destiny 2 patch to avoid crunch Bungie has delayed the release of a patch to online fps Destiny 2 in order to preserve the “work-life balance” of the development team. The patch, designed to [...]

• PUBG Mobile Is Now The World’s Most Popular Mobile Game; Niantic Suing Global++ Hacking Association

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  TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: PUBG Mobile is now the world’s most popular mobile game, Niantic suing Global++ hacking outfit, buys Sensible Object; and Oculus Quest sells USD$5m (£3.98m) of content in its first five weeks.   PUBG Mobile is now the world’s most popular mobile game PUBG Mobile is now the world’s most popular mobile game, with over 400 million downloads. The title now also generates the highest global revenue in the mobile space, [...]

• Against Gravity secures USD$24m investment in VR social gaming space Rec Room

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  Seattle start-up Against Gravity has raised USD$24m (£18.9m) of VC funding. The money will help bolster Rec Room, the studio’s blend of social space, game compilation and user content generation platform. As reported by TechCrunch, Against Gravity raised the investment over two rounds of funding. The first Series A funding round was led by Sequoia, while Index Ventures spearheaded the second, Series B, which concluded recently. Investors in Against Gravity include Acequia Capital, Anorak Ventures, Betaworks, DAG Ventures, First Round Capital [...]

• Minecraft revealed as best selling game of all time... probably

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  As Minecraft’s tenth anniversary dawns, its owner Microsoft has revealed that the game has sold 176 million copies. The news came via a Microsoft blog post – spotted by PC gamer – that also reveals a new AR title called Minecraft Earth is underway. Minecraft is no doubt a bona fide cultural phenomenon. It’s star may have faded a little compared to the high of a few years ago, but it can truly stand along household names like Tetris, Pong and Fortnite [...]

• Nintendo 'Not Exactly Satisfied' with Numerous Successes

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  Ever one to be modest about its achievements, Nintendo has revealed that the huge success of many of its current first-party IP titles has left the company longing for more. As revealed in a new investor-facing Q&A report, the company is looking to expand the reach of its games and connect with more new users. Any contemporary game company is likely to be pursuing those goals, of course. But recent months have seen new Pokémon titles ‘Let’s Go! Pikachu’ and ‘Let’s [...]

• How Pokémon Won Over the United Nations

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  This week, developer Niantic revealed that it has partnered with the United Nations to create ‘tourism experiences’ delivered as ‘real-world games’. The AR specialist studio will build titles specifically with the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), with a view to work enhancing global tourism. Niantic, of course, created the global phenomenon that is Pokémon GO. In May 2018 alone, almost two years after the AR title’s launch, 147 million people played the game, according to Superdata. The data outfit also reported [...]