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You will find the latest news in the Gaming, Web3 Gaming & Asia-region markets.

🗞️ ZOOM ON GAMING

This focus on the Gaming Market is brought to you by thecoreloop

Industry Trends:

- October’s top releases: Spider-Man 2, Super Mario Bros Wonder, Cities: Skylines II, Alan Wake 2, Forza Motorsport, Lord of the Rings, Detective Pikachu

- 2% of jobs eliminated in 2023

- Surprising demographics for gamers with 43+ year olds outnumbering GenZ and more than 50% of gamers find their spouse through gaming.

- SEA Region growth expected to hit $27B by 2027.

- Global gaming market size $188B in 2023 and 33 M&A deals worth $5B in Q2

Company Trends:

- Public companies making big moves like Disney looking to buy EA, Microsoft actually buying Activision, and FaZe Clan acquired for -98% loss.

- Tech giants Netflix and Samsung release beta test for cloud gaming while Meta drops new Quest 3

- UGC platforms change creator payouts and support (Fortnite’s new creator policies and PUBG’s $100M creator fund)

Product Trends:

- Many studios are porting their games onto other platforms (Clash of Clan to PC, Homa Games to Nintendo, and console games to mobile)

- The rise of Alternate App Stores is beginning (Oppo SEA, One Store Korea, Indus Appstore India)

🗞️ ZOOM ON WEB3 GAMING

This focus on the Web3 Gaming Market is brought to you by Gaming Chronicles

• Massive update & keynote from Beam

• Hytopia raised $3M

• Owned started a 1,000,000$ campaign

• Gam3sAwards are back

• Parallel listed on Steam

• Metapixel: GSU shuts down

• Big Time Preseason is here

• Fableborne raised $7.8M.

• Avalanche: partnering with T1 & launching NFTs?

• Ronin: released the Gifting Portal ; a simple way to gift Axies

• Gamified: Avax is now the show host & sponsor!

• Mighty Action Heroes: now live on the Google Playstore

• Wild Forest: $400K strategic investment from SkyMavis

• Capsule Heroes: new gameplay video

• Forge: now live 

• XAI Games: strategic partnership with Team Secret

• Bladerite: tournament with G2 esports

🌏FOCUS ON ASIA

This focus on the Asian Market is brought to you by Yellow Panther, founder of the Gaming Grid

• T1 Partners with Avalanche 🔺

• Mighty Action Heroes launches on Google Play Store 🚀

• ZTX Playtest Hits 47,595 Players 🌟

• Star Atlas introduces SAGE Labs

• Axie Quest Launches on Mavis Greenlight 🧩

• Animoca Brands Japan Joins Forces with Drecom

• Symbiogenesis Treasure Hunt Campaign 3.0 Extended

• Moku HQ: Season 1

• Mythic Protocol Secures $6.5M Seed Funding for Collaborative Entertainment Ecosystem 💰

• METAPIXEL Gran Saga: Unlimited Temporarily Pauses 🚫

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