Kliuless? Gaming Industry Insights #51
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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Business Development
LVP raises $80m in seed funding for video game startups
Manticore Games raises $30 million to enable a new generation of game creators
Improbable acquires The Multiplayer Guys
Unity acquires game marketing and analytics specialist deltaDNA
App Annie acquires mobile analytics firm Libring alongside rebrand
Epic paid 505 Games parent over $10m for Control PC exclusivity
Nintendo experiments with subscription through Mario Kart Tour's Gold Pass
Art / Design
The Animation of Hollow Knight
Survival mastery will build “a lingua franca” in the PUBG community
The Small But Important Change 'Celeste' Made to Its Celebrated Assist Mode
Mobile
All 71 launch games for Apple Arcade
Google Play Pass offers 350+ Android apps and games for $5/month
Related: Devs that sign on to Play Pass are paid by the time players spend in their games
Report: Facebook News Feed getting 60% of total ad spend across Facebook, Instagram
Report: The State of Mobile Internet Connectivity 2019
XR: AR / MR / VR
Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world
Apple seeks patent on retinal hologram projectors for AR glasses
Oculus Quest will get hand-tracking, Oculus Link to play Rift PC games
Ex-Owlchemy devs land $4.4 million for new XR studio absurd:joy
Respawn's first VR game is Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond
Intel True View is a cool technology for immersive sports viewing
Bloomberg: Virtual Reality Is the Latest Dinner Party Trick
Esports
Enthusiast Gaming completes complex merger with Luminosity
