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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 [...]

• Anger Over Tax Relief for Rockstar; Calls for Industry to Counter ‘Skin Betting’ Sites

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  TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Anger over tax relief for Rockstar North; calls for industry to counter ‘skin betting’ sites; Valve disables TFS inventories due to item-drop bug. Anger over tax relief for Rockstar Rockstar North is facing criticism after it was revealed that the Grand Theft Auto developer has not paid tax in the UK since 2009 despite receiving £42m in subsidies aimed at ‘culturally British’ games in the last three years, according [...]

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• Analysis: Grand Theft Auto Online's New 'Real Money Casino'

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  If you’ve browsed the mainstream press recently – and read beyond the news of the new UK Prime Minister – you may have noticed a story ripe with controversy. The perennially popular Grand Theft Auto Online has recently enabled the ability to spend real money in a fictional casino. Grand Theft Auto, of course, has always courted controversy. Many will even tell you it does so deliberately. Gambling, rightly so, is a pastime that is closely regulated. And through recent scandals [...]

• 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 [...]

• Monolith Soft Doubles Year-on-Year Profit; Fiverr Launches ‘Industry Store’ for Gaming Services

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  TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Monolith Soft doubles year-on-year profit, opens new studio; Fiverr launches ‘industry store’ for gaming services; and Ubisoft criticised for sourcing music through HitRecord. Monolith Soft doubles year-on-year profit, opens new studio Nintendo subsidiary Monolith Soft has announced that it has opened a new studio in Osaki, Tokyo, following a year in which the developer saw its profits almost double from JP¥138m (£1.02m) to JP¥274m (£2.02m). Originally founded in 1999 as [...]

• Over 4,000 developers Have Signed Up to Google Stadia Partners; Winners Announced for the Develop:Star 2019 Awards

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  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 DS – Doug Bowser. Over 4,000 developers have signed up to Google Stadia Partners More than 4,000 game development companies have reportedly submitted applications to join the Stadia Partners scheme, according to Sam Cocoran, technical account manager at Google, who was addressing [...]

• ironSource debuts new cross-platform mobile cross-promotion solution

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  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 has previously covered – the new solution promises to maximise the value of all existing users by driving the adoption of games from across a given developer’s catalogue of titles. According to a statement to the press, the new ironSource technology [...]

• NBA 2K19 and the 'unskippable' ads fiasco

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  2K’s long-standing and wildly popular basketball game NBA 2K19 has in recent days been the subject of a flood of frustration from players unhappy with the premium title’s apparent ramping up of ‘unskippable’ ads. It appears some of that frustration may be partially unfounded; the ads may not be unskippable, and they have always been part of the game. But the momentum that has built in recent days has seen a lashing out against 2K’s use of ads – and that [...]

• 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 [...]

• Commons committee grills EA and Epic reps at ongoing 'Immersive and addictive technologies inquiry'

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  In the UK the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has been speaking to representatives from Electronic Arts and Epic Games, as it’s ‘Immersive and addictive technologies inquiry’ continues. The enquiry – which is not just focused on games – is looking at the ongoing emergence of technology in contemporary UK society, with a particular focus on notions of technology addiction and negative impact. “The inquiry will examine the development of immersive technologies such as virtual and augmented reality, and the [...]