TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Microsoft acquires Double Fine; Tencent sells Glu Mobile shares; and Bethesda Softworks announces cloud gaming platform. Microsoft acquires Double Fine (& confirms new Xbox) Microsoft has confirmed it’s bought beloved games studio, Double Fine Productions. Microsoft announced at its E3 keynote is was buying the games creator, founded by LucasArts’ Tim Schafer. Double Fine, known as one of the first studios to crowdfund its game, Broken Age, in a Kickstarter [...]

Google has moved to reveal more details on its eagerly anticipated Stadia cloud-gaming service; namely pricing structures, launch details and launch games. The gaming platform – due in November this year – requires no console-like ‘box’ or dedicated hardware beyond a game controller or mouse and keyboard. Instead, games will be streamed over the cloud direct from Google data centres to customers’ screens and controllers. Stadia will be available over smart TVs, laptops, desktop computers and smartphones. Users will access the [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Harry Potter game achieves 100,000 installs in first month; Gamestop shares slump to 16-year low; Zynga launches exclusive Snapchat game. Harry Potter game achieves 100,000 installs in first month Harry Potter: Wizards Unite launched into open beta in Australia and New Zealand on 1 May, 2019 and the game, from Niantic and Warner Bros, has been installed over 100,000 times since from the App Store and Google Play, according [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Google teases Stadia details; WeQ acquires Booster Studios; and BlueStacks launches SDK for developers to publish Android games to Steam. Google teases Stadia details Google has subtly announced it will soon (6 June) be releasing details of its upcoming cloud-based games console, Stadia. A static image on a YouTube video announces Stadia Connect, launching 9AM PDT/6pm CEST on 6 June. It will reveal pricing, games, and launch details. The [...]

Apple has used its annual Worldwide Developers Conference to detail the coming iteration of its iPhone operating system, iOS 13. Overall, iOS 13 promises to deliver faster, more responsive performance; something anyone would expect from a new operating system. However, thanks to the new ways in which apps are stored on an iPhone, software downloads are purported to be much faster, while Apple says apps will take up to 50% less storage space than currently seen. That may be significant to [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the latest news from the world of gaming. In today’s edition: Industry veterans release new game development platform, Coherence; Shoot ’em up, Cuphead, is launching for Tesla cars; and Apple releases iOS 13. Industry veterans release coherence Playdead co-founder, Dino Patti, and Unity co-founder, David Helgason, aim to democratise the creation of online games with the launch of Coherence, a cloud-based, open-source development platform. Coherence will bring the development of multiplayer games to the masses, where technical [...]

The UK’s Migration Advisory Committee has recommended to the nation’s Government that several video games industry roles be added to an official list compiling careers in which the country sees shortages of appropriate talent. As reported by Gamesindustry.biz, the near-400 page ‘Full review of the shortage occupation list‘ report spans all industries and roles. If the recommended games industry and related roles were added to the ‘shortage occupation lists’ (or ‘SOL’), it would be made easier for companies to hire from [...]

The last two days have been a bumpy ride for Panic. The software company and occasional game publisher recently dazzled the global games industry by revealing its delightfully unconventional gaming handheld, the Playdate. Then the organisers of a modest gaming event also titled Playdate stated that they had received an email from Panic asserting that the former could no longer use the name. That has not gone down well. There is little unusual in companies moving to protect or claim brands. However, [...]

Chinese technology giant Tencent is understood to be partnering with Riot Games to bring the latter’s globally popular PC game League of Legends to mobile. While Tencent can feel like a company that dominates the headlines all too often, this one is simply too big to ignore. League of Legends is an absolute giant of the booming esports sector; an industry that is expected to reach a global value of USD$1bn (£788.7m) in 2019, according to figures from analytics and data [...]

As Minecraft’s tenth anniversary dawns, its owner Microsoft has revealed that the game has sold 176 million copies. The news came via a Microsoft blog post – spotted by PC gamer – that also reveals a new AR title called Minecraft Earth is underway. Minecraft is no doubt a bona fide cultural phenomenon. It’s star may have faded a little compared to the high of a few years ago, but it can truly stand along household names like Tetris, Pong and Fortnite [...]