TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the prevalent business stories in gaming. In today’s news: Tencent and Huawei partner for cloud gaming; Colopl acquires Mages; and HQ Trivia returns. Tencent and Huawei partner for cloud gaming Tencent has partnered with Huawei to launch a co-innovation development lab which will power a new mobile cloud gaming platform, termed GameMatrix. The collaboration will leverage Huawei’s Kunpeng processor technology with the firms prioritising emerging areas within the gaming industry, namely artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the prevalent business stories in gaming. In today’s news: Cloud gaming to reach USD$56.57bn (£48.80bn) by 2027; DreamCraft raises USD$3m (£2.6m); and Google Stadia partners with Unity. Cloud gaming to reach USD$56.57bn by 2027 The global cloud gaming market is forecast to reach USD$56.57bn (£48.80bn) by 2027, representing a CAGR from 2018 of 15.7%, according to estimates from Fortune Business Insights. Several factors have been cited as drivers towards this growth, including the increased adoption of online [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the prevalent business stories in gaming. In today’s news: Video games UA spend to hit £37bn; PlatinumGames developing engine; and Comscore and Twitch partner for streaming analytics. Video games UA spend to hit £37bn Mobile attribution platform AppsFlyer has predicted that gaming app spend on user acquisition (UA) will reach £37bn by 2022, a 118% increase from the £17bn spent in 2019. The prolific increase reflects the competitiveness of the sector, with gaming responsible for an estimated [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the prevalent business stories in gaming. In today’s news: SEA Telcos to launch gaming joint venture; Horizon raises USD$5m (£3.8m); and Nvidia acquires SwiftStack. SEA Telcos to launch gaming joint venture Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel), its Thai affiliate Advanced Info Service (AIS), and South Korean firm SK Telecom have partnered to launch an as-yet unnamed joint venture focusing on gaming-related revenue streams. The new collaboration will focus on partnering with international developers operating in the Southeast Asian (SEA) [...]

Audio-first and audio-only games have to-date offered a fascinating micro niche within the gaming medium. In the late 1990s the visionary musician and game designer Kenji Eno released a game with very few visuals at all for the Sega Saturn and Dreamcast called Real Sound: Kaze no Regret. The idea was that blind and sighted players could enjoy the same experience. A few years later Nintendo debuted SoundVoyager for the GameBoy Advance, which challenged you not to look at the screen [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the prevalent business stories in gaming. In today’s news: Gaming firms allegedly benefiting from forced labour; Sonatic raises €2.3m (£2.0m); Curve Digital partners with H2 Interactive; and Zordix acquires Invictus Games. Gaming firms allegedly benefiting from forced labour Multiple global technology and video game companies, including Apple, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, HTC, and Oculus, have reportedly benefited from the forced labour of Uighur Muslims in factories across China, according to a report published by the Australian Strategic Policy [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the prevalent business stories in gaming. In today’s news: Activision Blizzard withdraws titles from GeForce NOW; Supercell revenue climbs 2%; and DKB bank to offer esports scholarships. Activision Blizzard withdraws titles from GeForce NOW Activision Blizzard has withdrawn its titles from the Nvidia GeForce NOW cloud gaming platform, just a week after the service launched fully. At the time of publication, neither company has cited a reason for the request, which has seen the removal of titles [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the prevalent business stories in gaming. In today’s news: China mobile firms partner to form GDSA; Esports jobs up 87% in 2019; and THQ Nordic establishes new studio in Slovakia. China mobile firms partner to form GDSA China mobile technology companies Xiaomi and BBK Electronics (OPPO and Vivo) have partnered to create the Global Developer Service Alliance (GDSA), allowing game developers to upload their titles onto their respective app stores simultaneously, in a move which analysts are [...]

TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: CWA launches campaign for video game unionisation; Square Enix focusing on cloud gaming; and Anzu.io partners with Vivid Games. CWA launches campaign for video game unionisation The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union has launched the Campaign to Organize Digital Employees (CODE), which will focus on the unionisation of US companies within the video game and technology industries. The campaign was established in cooperation with Game Workers Unite [...]