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• Microsoft Considers xCloud-Exclusive Titles; Global Game Spend Forecast Revised to USD$148.8bn (£115.9bn)

  2 weeks ago News

  

  TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Microsoft considers xCloud-exclusive titles; global game spend forecast revised to USD$148.8bn (£115.9bn); Coherance raises USD$2.5m (£1.9m) seed funding; and Misfits launches USD$10m (£7.8m) esports and gaming incubator. Microsoft considers xCloud-exclusive titles Microsoft is considering releasing exclusive titles on the upcoming Project xCloud platform, and is actively engaging with third-party developers along with in-house studios, according to an interview with Kareem Choudhry, corporate vice president, gaming cloud, published in [...]

• 10 Billion Mixed Reality App Installs Predicted by 2024; MR Ad Spend to Hit USD$11bn (£8.54bn)

  4 weeks ago News

  

  ‘Mixed reality’ content will see 10 billion app installs by 2024, up from 3 billion in 2019, says a new report. The prediction comes from research and analytics outfit Juniper Research, which has published the results of a new study titled ‘Consumer Mixed Reality: Emerging Opportunities, Vendor Strategies & Market Forecasts 2019-2024’. ‘Mixed reality’ – or ‘MR’- is a term defined slightly different in different places; particularly since it’s deployment as marketing jargon when hype around virtual reality spiked in the wake [...]

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

  1 month ago News

  

  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 [...]