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Niantic drove $249 million in tourism revenue with its walking events in 2019

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 22, 2020
2 min

Niantic has revealed details of its lineup of event locations for its walking games (Pokémon Go, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Ingress) for 2020....

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PlayVS brings Fortnite to high school and college esports tournaments

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 22, 2020
2 min

PlayVS will bring organized Fortnite competitions to high schools and colleges in the U.S. PlayVS already uses its software platform to organize popular esports...

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Yandex: Russian game market doubled in five years to $2 billion

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 22, 2020
3 min

The Russian game market more than doubled in the past five years to more than $2 billion in 2019, according to Yandex.Checkout, a Russian...

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Tencent makes $148 million offer to acquire all shares of Dune developer Funcom

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 22, 2020
2 min

China’s Tencent has made a $148 million offer the acquire all the shares of Funcom, maker of the Conan Exiles and Age of Conan...

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U.K. game studio Double Eleven expands to Malaysia

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 22, 2020
1 min

Game developer and publisher Double Eleven announced today that it is opening a new studio in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia later this spring. Double Eleven’s...

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Stillfront Group acquires Storm8 for $300 million

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 21, 2020
1 min

Stillfront Group announced today that it is acquiring 100% of Califonia mobile gaming studio Storm8. Stillfront is calling this one of the biggest acquisitions...