TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Sumo Group Welcomes New Chairman, Posts Half-Year Profits; Sony Selling Hardware and Games Direct to Consumer; Improbable Acquires The Multiplayer Guys.   Sumo Group Welcomes New Chairman, Posts Half-Year Profits The Sumo Group has named game industry veteran Ian Livingstone as its new chairman, while reporting healthy pre-tax profits in its its H1 2019 financials. Headquartered in Sheffield, the Sumo Group has studios under its Sumo Digital banner located across [...]

TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Denuvo releases Mobile Game Protection solution; GameStop lays off 120 staff; and Starbreeze posts quarterly loss of SEK64.4m (£5.44m). Denuvo releases Mobile Game Protection solution Digital security platform Denuovo by Irdeto has released its Mobile Game Protection solution, designed to protect mobile titles against hacking, cheating, and piracy. The technology purportedly does not require any alterations to the title’s source code, meaning it can be retro-actively applied to [...]