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Riot winds down Wild Rift esports outside of Asia

Game Daily

This week, Riot Games announced that it has canceled esports leagues for Wild Rift outside of Asia. According to the official press release , viewership for the mobile version of MOBA juggernaut League of Legends never reached expectations except in Asia, where, moving forward, Riot will focus its attention.

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Riot Games prepares to close its last data center as it completes global migration to AWS

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Starting in 2017, Riot Games made the decision to decommission its physical data centers and move entirely to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Since then, 14 data centers have been closed, with data centers in Las Vegas and Chile shutting down in the past month. We wanted to be much more agile.”

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2023: Year in Retrospect for the Gaming Industry

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The gaming industry has achieved significant milestones in recent years, and 2023 was no exception. Recent data has shown that 2023 has been among the best years in the gaming sector. It has the highest number of top-rated games in two decades, making it an exceptional year for the industry. But was it all rosy?

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New report shows game investment slowdown

Game Daily

However, the report – titled Games Investment Review, and published every quarter – notes that these returns are consistent with the time of year, comparing well with other second quarters in recent years. acquisition of games data analytics platform Wargraphs in late May; Atari’s $19.5

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Analysis • Saudi Arabia spends big on gaming with acquisition of Scopely

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Top image: Marvel Strike Force by Scopely This week Savvy Games Group , a subsidiary of the Saudi Arabian government’s Public Investments Fund, announced that it agreed to purchase Scopely , a privately held mobile game publisher, for $4.9 billion in video gaming assets globally. billion by Sony.

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Supercell’s Strategic Initiatives that Will Transform the Company

Deconstructor of Fun

In February, Ilkka Paananen, the beloved CEO of Supercell, and arguably one of the faces on the Mount Rushmore of Mobile Games Executives, published his yearly blog post. All in all, Ilkka’s yearly blog is an inspirational and quite sincere vision of the top brass of a major mobile games company.

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Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio

Deconstructor of Fun

TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy ? Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. ✉️ Received this email from a friend?

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