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• Bidstack Launches in the US; EA Data Breach Affects 1600 Fifa 20 Global Series Competitors

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  TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Bidstack launches in the US; EA data breach affects 1600 Fifa 20 Global Series competitors; and Reality Gaming Group to raise £1.5m. Bidstack launches in the US Bidstack Group PLC, an ad tech company which enables brands to purchase native in-game inventory programmatically, has launched in the US. The firm’s efforts across the Atlantic, which have been on the cards since August this year, will be led by [...]

• Admix's Vision for Ads as Game Assets: Moving From 'Ad Tech' to 'Game Development Tool'

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  Game development sometimes has a complicated relationship with ad tech. Advertising solutions might help pay the bills, but they are often seen as something ‘other’; an entity that is separated from the technology that is used to actually make games. It’s a less than elegant oversimplification, but game developers use development tools, middleware and engines to make games. After that ad tech is applied or employed to monetise games. As such you’d be forgiven for thinking there were two very distinct [...]

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• Magic Leap debuts first Independent Creator Program game

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  The first game supported by Magic Leap’s Independent Creator Program has gone live for the outfit’s long-hyped AR platform. Portuguese studio ONTOP’s PuzzlAR: World Tour is a casual 3D jigsaw puzzle game, and in fact a tweaked port of a mobile game. Of course, any port top Magic Leap is going to take some effort; the AR headset user an approach to overlaying digital assets onto the real world pitched as highly distinct. Famously long in development, the Magic Leap headset has [...]

• Bigben Acquires Spiders; My.Games Incurs Impairment Charge of RUB₽630m (£7.99m)

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  TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Bigben acquires Spiders; My.Games incurs impairment charge of RUB₽630m (£7.99m); and Bandai Namco debuts tori, an AR-infused play kit. Bigben acquires Spiders Bigben Interactive has acquired fellow French development studio Spiders for an undisclosed sum, marking the latest in a series of acquisitions, with three other studios having been purchased in the last 18 months. The move is expected to bolster Bigben’s internal development capabilities, with the aim of [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]