Kliuless? Gaming Industry ICYMI #28
Hi, my name is Kenny Liu, and I work in Revenue Strategy at Riot Games. Each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I share broadly within Riot. This edition is the public version that I publish broadly every week as well. Opinions are mine.
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Platform Wars
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney on 250 million Fortnite players, digital humans, and $100 million dev fund
Google Unveils Stadia, a Video Game Streaming Service That Could Threaten Xbox and PlayStation
Opinion: Google Stadia has promise, but GDC failed to address its biggest obstacles
Related: Google Stadia hands-on: streaming analysis and controller impressions
Related: Why Phil Harrison joined Google to launch the Stadia cloud gaming platform
Related: Interview with Phil Harrison and Majd Bakar on Google Stadia
Related: Jade Raymond will head Google’s own game studio, Stadia Games and Entertainment
Walmart is Talking to Developers and Publishers About a Potential Streaming Service
Design
How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games
Reddit: Deconstruction of Apex Legends' Season 1 Battle Pass
Overwatch saw 40% less disruptive behavior with endorsement system
How Arkane built a roguelike atop an immersive sim with Prey's Mooncrash DLC
Do you have a self-actualised personality? Maslow revisited
"'Taken together, this total pattern of data supports Maslow’s contention that self-actualised individuals are more motivated by growth and exploration than by fulfilling deficiencies in basic needs,' Kaufman writes. He adds that the new empirical support for Maslow’s ideas is ‘quite remarkable’ given that Maslow put them together with ‘a paucity of actual evidence’"
PC/Console
Battlefield V’s Firestorm battle royale mode launches March 25
