Cloud gaming

• Hands-on With Google Stadia: The Future of Gaming?

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  Late last week TheGamingEconomy headed to the upper floors of Google’s central-London offices so as to spend a little time hands on with Stadia. Even in the few days since that preview opportunity, updated news about the platform’s arrival has continued to land. Many were disappointed that the console would launch with 12 games – only one being a platform exclusive. Now there is some surprise that with little time until launch, that list has leapt to 22 titles. As other players [...]

• Stadia to Launch with 22 Titles; Innogames Passes USD$1.1bn (£850m) Lifetime Revenue

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  TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Stadia to launch with 22 titles; Innogames passes USD$1.1bn (£850m) lifetime revenue; and Microsoft less focused on games-as-a-service. Stadia to launch with 22 titles Google has announced that Stadia will launch tomorrow with 22 titles, expanded from the original lineup of just 12 games. The original line-up of titles was perceived as underwhelming by many in the industry, and while Stadia leads appeared to be taking a cautious [...]

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• Streaming and the Cloud: What We Learned from Microsoft's XO19 Event

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  Last night was a big night for Xbox. Microsoft hosted its X019 event in London, which was plump with announcements. If one theme dominated, though, it was the delivery of games as a service. Both Game Pass and Project xCloud enjoyed plenty of focus. The former is a subscription service for the Xbox One that adopts the ‘Netflix of Games’ model, giving users access to a library of titles for a regular fee. xCloud, meanwhile, is the coming Xbox cloud gaming streaming [...]

• Apple AR Headset Delayed Until 2022; Stadia to Launch with 12 Titles

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  TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Apple AR headset delayed until 2022; Stadia to launch with 12 titles; and Starbreeze submits plan to pay off debts. Apple AR headset delayed until 2022 Apple is due to release an augmented reality (AR) headset in 2022, followed by a more ergonomic pair of AR glasses in 2023, according to an internal presentation obtained by The Information. The purported release date goes against analyst expectations, with late [...]

• Sony Appoints Hermen Hulst as Head of Worldwide Studios; Activision Blizzard Revenue Falls 15%

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  TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Sony appoints Hermen Hulst as head of Worldwide Studios; Activision Blizzard revenue falls 15%; and Valve seemingly working on cloud gaming service. Sony appoints Hermen Hulst as head of Worldwide Studios Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has appointed Hermen Hulst as head of Worldwide Studios (WWS), effective immediately. Hulst, who co-founded the successful Guerrilla studio that sold to Sony in 2005, will now oversee the 14 studios which comprise [...]

• Improbable Partners with Tencent Cloud; Unity Acquires Obvioos

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  TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Improbable partners with Tencent Cloud; Unity acquires Obvioos; Anzu.io enters Xbox Tools and Middleware Program. Improbable partners with Tencent Cloud London-based simulation software distributor Improbable has announced a partnership with Tencent Cloud, with the latter’s computational resources now able to be utilised by Chinese developers using Improbable’s SpatialOS platform. AI, game iteration speed and scaling multiplayer simulations are all purported to benefit from the collaboration. The firms have [...]

• Blizzard Criticised for Crowdfunding; AMD Targetting Consoles & Cloud Gaming

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  TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Blizzard criticised for crowdfunding; AMD targetting consoles & cloud gaming; and Team17 raises revenue expectations. Blizzard criticised for crowdfunding Blizzard has attracted criticism for ‘deceptive language’ regarding a crowdfunding campaign designed to raise funds for the prize pools for the Arena World Championship and Mythic Dungeon Invitational World of Warcraft esports tournaments. In March, Blizzard stated that the minimum combined prize pool for the tournaments would total USD$500,000 [...]

• Tencent Gains China Approval to Publish Mario Title; 78% of Gaming Preteens Watch Gaming Videos

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  TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Tencent gains China approval to publish Mario title; 78% of gaming preteens watch gaming videos; and Blade raises €30m (€25.9m). Tencent gains China approval to publish Mario title Tencent has gained approval from China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television to publish the updated Switch version of Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe title, according to reports from Reuters. The move brings a greater likelihood [...]

• Sony Interactive Entertainment Lays Off 'Dozens' of Staff; Google Stadia to use Negative Latency

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  TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Sony Interactive Entertainment lays off ‘dozens’ of staff; Google Stadia to use negative latency; and TouchTen secures funding. Sony Interactive Entertainment lays off ‘dozens’ of staff Sony Interactive Entertainment has reportedly laid off ‘dozens’ of staff across its European (SIEE) and North American (SIEA) divisions, as part of previously-announced restructuring efforts. PlayStation directors reportedly visited SIEE officers in London on Tuesday to notify them of the corporate decision, [...]

• Cloud Gaming has Incredible Disruptive Potential, and 5G is the Key to Unlocking it

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  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 GDC presentation of Google Stadia was a real game-changer. Stadia and services like it could disrupt the gaming industry, just as Uber did with taxis, Netflix with TV and Amazon with shopping. Google, Microsoft and others vision a future without consoles [...]