“We need to build a lot more features into the development kit. Right now, there’s a set of APIs, there’s a diverse programming language, and there’s a set of APIs that can use interfaces to enable creating games in a bunch of genres,” Sweeney said about what can be made in  Fortnite  Creative. “But they don’t expose everything we want to

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"If Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard passes review, Microsoft would enter the mobile space with the benefit of a scaled content portfolio, an identity management system, and advertising infrastructure. The integration of these assets, post-acquisition, is certainly not trivial, but the opportunity is substantial: a logged-in subscribe

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Assets that describe your strategy. These should describe why you’ve chosen to serve these customers in this way, the evidence you used to make that decision, and the highest leverage ways you can increase the value you create and the value you receive in return. Target customer profilesIssue treesImpact mapsOpportunity/solution treesHierarchy diag... See more

Assets that describe your economic model. These should describe the value your company receives from customers, the cost of creating that value, and the ways in which you measure that value. Examples include: Business flywheelsValue stream mapsWardley mapsRetention/churn modelsCustomer acquisition modelsCustomer lifetime value modelsProjected balan... See more

Assets that describe customer and user value. These should describe the value your product and services create, who they create it for, and the ways you measure that value. Examples include: Business Model Canvas/Lean CanvasUser JourneysService blueprintsPersonasEmpathy mapsStoryboardsJob forces diagramsProduct overviews (one-pagers, etc)

Reddit hired its first Chief Product Officer (Pali Bhat, ex-Google Cloud) in Oct 2021. He recently articulated a new product vision/philosophy around the acronym SUPER to guide feature development:SIMPLE“What shapes the Reddit experience are the features and tools that people interact with every day—things like Reddit’s Home and Popular feeds, comm... See more

The rise of the smartphone has completed the collapse of content. The diminutive size of the device’s screen further compacted all forms of information. The instant notifications and infinite scrolls that became the phone’s default design standards required that all information be rendered in a way that could be taken in at a glance, further blurri... See more

The market intelligence firm says that the $126 billion revenue figure amassed by the gaming firms represents a growth of 10% year-over-year.The top 10 companies by revenue are Tencent, Sony, Apple, Microsoft, Google, NetEase, Activision Blizzard, Nintendo, EA, and Sea Limited.

TikTok generated an impressive $821 million in consumer spending in the last quarter. The video-sharing platform was the top-grossing app on the App Store, and the second-highest-grossing on Google Play, coming just after Google One.