Kliuless? Gaming Industry Insights #50
Hi, my name is Kenny Liu, and each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I publish broadly. Opinions are mine.
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Design
Hideo Kojima Answers Our Questions About Death Stranding
GDC Podcast: Choice Design With Zachtronics' Matthew Burns
Inside the narrative design of Remedy's least linear game, Control
How Hearthstone’s team made Tomb of Terrors a fun and distinct solo mode
Battery icons shape perceptions of time and space and define user identities
Platforms
Rockstar Games now has its own game launcher on PC
Valve launches revamped Steam Library in open beta
Related: Steam's latest discovery update tilts the algorithm away from popular games
Twitch acquires gaming database site IGDB to improve its search and discovery features
Discord cuts games from paid subscription plan after Nitro Games fails to take off
PC / Console
Minecraft now has 112mm players every month
League of Legends still has 8mm concurrent players daily
Sea of Thieves adds microtransaction store in latest update
Game Seer Venture Partners will invest $11.1mm in PC & console game projects
XR: AR / MR / VR
Pico and ZeroLight demo Boundless XR, untethered VR streaming from PCs
iOS 13 reveals iPhone-tethered Apple AR glasses with a controller
Mixed reality is boosting the live sports experience
Asia
Scopely Taps Former Disney Exec to Head New Japan Offices
China’s internet regulator orders online AI algorithms to promote ‘mainstream values
Visualization of 8 years of changes to the world's biggest internet population, China
Esports
Tech / Entertainment
a16z: Apple, services and moats
Stratechery: Day Two to One Day [re: Amazon]
