TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Fyber launches FairBid, a new ad mediation platform; Take-Two Interactive earns USD$540.5m (£444.9m) in Q1 FY 2020; and nWay tests blockchain solution for development platform. Fyber launches FairBid, a new ad mediation platform Fyber, a global technology firm offering app monetisation solutions, has launched Fairbid, an ad mediation platform. The platform includes multiple features including built-in unified auction capabilities, ability to call a demand source at multiple times in [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Roblox hits 100 million monthly users; Google testing ‘Play Pass’ – a mobile gaming subscription service; and E3 leaks personal details of over 2000 industry professionals. Roblox hits 100 million monthly users Family MMO and game creation system Roblox has reached 100 million monthly active users (MAUs), surpassing Minecraft, which had 91 million MAUs as of March this year. Released in 2005, Roblox has experienced phenomenal growth over the [...]

Mobile app advertising, monetisation and mediation outfit ironSource recently expanded its platform to offer a cross-platform mobile cross promotion solution. The distinct tech promises to offer a previously unseen approach not yet offered to mobile app developers and publishers by existing solutions. But just what does the new platform provide that is quite so different? And why has cross promotion historically been a tricky entity to perfect? We caught up with ironSource’s VP of product developer solutions, Nimrod Zuta, to find [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s edition: 61% of Chinese gamers prefer free-to-play or ad-funded titles; Immortals Gaming Club reportedly selling Houston Outlaws for USD$40m (£32.8m); and Ubisoft acquires Green Panda Games. 61% of Chinese gamers prefer free-to-play or ad-funded titles 61% of 1007 surveyed Chinese gamers prefer free-to-play (FTP) or ad-funded titles over premium games, according to research commissioned by Mintegral. 85% of respondents also reported that they had spent money on these titles, however [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s results special: Nintendo profits fall due to ‘foreign exchange losses’; Electronic Arts results exceed projections; and Sega Sammy Holdings operating income increases by 246.6%. Nintendo profits fall due to ‘foreign exchange losses’ Profits at Nintendo during the first quarter of the financial year have fallen by 45.7% year-on-year to JP¥16.6bn (£125.6m), primarily attributed to ‘foreign exchange losses’ of JP¥12bn (£90.8m). However, strong hardware and software sales, which increased by 13.2% [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: PlayStation 4 has sold 100 million units worldwide; GitHub access restricted in Iran, Syria and Crimea; and Qualcomm and Tencent announce partnership. PlayStation 4 has sold 100 million units worldwide Sony’s PlayStation 4 has sold 100 million units worldwide since its launch in November 2013, reportedly making it the fastest home console to reach this milestone, surpassing the PlayStation 2 and the Nintendo Wii. 3.2 million PS4 units were [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]