⚡️ 15-19 July Mobile Gaming Data Digest
Industry Highlights
💸 Tax Benefits for IT and Game Developers
📊 Gökhan Üzmez: Healthy Game Metric Matrix
🍀 Play for the Planet: ZiMAD Partners Up with Dots.eco
🔗 Sergei Vasiuk: What Connects Game & States Economies?
🏔️ From the World to the French Alps: Homa’s 5th Workation
📈 Role of an Analyst at Burny Games: More Than Just Numbers
🇮🇳 India Antitrust Probe Finds Apple Abused App Market Position
🍏 Apple Approves First PC Emulator for iOS After Initial Rejection
❌ Microsoft Shuts Down Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Team
🥋 Mortal Kombat Developer NetherRealm Lays Off Mobile Team
🎮 Nishant Patel: Transforming Indian Education with Minecraft
🚀 Vital Laptenok: Running a Business Isn’t for Everyone
Mobile Marketing
⏳ Lancaric: Mastering Facebook or TikTok Requires Time & Testing
🎲 Two & a half gamers: Testing Project Rise: Supercell’s Rogue-Lite
🐍 Zack Weiss: How Are Snake Games Topping the Charts?
🏎️ Andrei Zubov: Monopoly GO’s 1.5x Daily Revenue Boost
🎮 Jakub Remiar: All of The Supercell Action RPGs
💰 Yagiz Gür: How to Boost Game Monetization?
💵 Zenless Zone Zero Surpasses $50M in 11 Days
🇺🇸 US In-Game Ad Revenues Forecast 2024
🕵️ Stephane Herve: New Game Alert – Spies!
📈 Global Ad Revenue to Hit $1 Trillion by 2026
⚔️ Matthew Emery: Remember Warcraft Rumble?
🏆 AppMagic: Peak Games Hits $5B in User Spending
🌍 Krafton to Host Dark and Darker Mobile Global Beta Test
🔍 Phillip Black: At What Point is Go IP & Hasbro Pays Scopely?
Game Investments
💰 InvestGame: Q2 2024 Gaming Investments
📈 Nazara Completes Acquisition of Paper Boat Apps
🧩 Echo Chunk Raises $1.4M to Make AI-Based Puzzle Games
🎮 Grand Games Raises $3M for Multiple Mobile Game Launches
🛠️ AI Tools Creator X&Immersion Raises €1.1 Million in Funding
🤖 Artificial Agency Raises $16M to Bring AI-Powered Behavior to Games
🤝 XYRO Secures Strategic Investment and Partnership with Animoca Brands
🚀 TOP Invests in Akedo to Build Telegram Games on TON Blockchain
🌌 Dusk Raises $8M to Build Social Multiplayer Gaming Platform
📊 Xsolla Acquires Leading LFG Company, LF.Group
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AI World
🧠 OpenAI Nears “Reasoning”-Capable AI
🎓 New AI+Education Venture: Eureka Labs
🛠️ AI-in-Everything Era: Unnecessary Gadgets
🤖 Mustafa Suleyman: AI Manifests in Two Ways
🛡️ Coalition for Secure AI, an OASIS Open Project
💻 OpenAI Releases Low-Cost GPT-4o Mini for Developers
📹 Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Stolen YouTube Videos to Train AI
🚫 OpenAI’s Latest Model Blocks Ignore All Previous Instructions Loophole
⚖️ Employees Accuse OpenAI of Illegal NDAs Blocking Whistleblowers
👥 HR Company Tried Treating AI Bots Like People—It Didn’t Go Well
✅ How to Assess an AI Model’s Reliability Before Deployment
💡 Harnessing AI as IT Spending Gradually Improves
📱 Anthropic Releases Claude App for Android
🔍 Hunting AI Bots? Try These Four Words
💬 16 Inspiring Quotes About AI
Goodbye Gigglie
This week’s buzz is all about a major Windows BSOD issue.
Crashing banks, airlines, and TV broadcasters… Even some of my friends had their flights canceled! The culprit? A glitchy update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike, causing a global outage and plenty of headaches.
Due to Western sanctions, Russia, is of the few countries unaffected by that. It’s an intriguing detail in the context of the “Digital Cold War.”
I guess we quickly forget just how hooked we are on digital systems and how easily they can break. These tech hiccups are like a crash course in reality, wdyt?
