Can NetEase Turn Bungie’s Destiny Into a Mobile Hit?
Rising, Bungie’s first mobile entry, launched Aug 28, 2025. Developed by NetEase, this free-to-play shooter expands Destiny to mobile & China.| Naavik
Today, we look into Apple and Google’s new app stores’ features, talk about AI and talent in a new podcast episode, and also bring you this week’s top news and a fresh batch of content worth consuming. The post App Stores Finally Play Along With Games appeared first on Naavik.| Naavik
Today, we share our take on EA’s $55B takeover by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners, where we discuss the impact of the deal for the company itself and for the gaming industry going forward. In our latest podcast episode, we talk about the big entertainment companies’ increasing interest in Roblox, and we also bring you this week’s top news items and content worth consuming. The post How EA Became a Saudi Trophy Asset appeared first on Naa...| Naavik
This week I have been reading Liar Game, watching Celeb Traitors, playing Fate GO, and links.| An Archaeopteryx
Thanksgiving weekend summary of the past week with a new Yokomizo Seishi book, Celebrity Traitors, baseball, Fantasy Life i, a jigsaw puzzle, and links.| An Archaeopteryx
Today, we talk about Ananta, NetEase’s upcoming F2P open-world RPG, rumoured to feature no gacha mechanics, and what this move could mean for the company and the future of the genre. In our latest podcast episode, we discuss the “TikTok of Games” and dive into the possible future of on-chain creator earnings. Lastly, we bring you this week’s top news items as well as a fresh batch of content worth consuming. The post NetEase’s Ananta and The Future of Gacha appeared first on Naavik.| Naavik
Today, we discuss Krafton’s global M&A strategy, and our new podcast episode gives you a game industry market update. We also round up this week’s top news items and bring you a fresh list of content worth consuming. The post Krafton’s Global M&A Strategy appeared first on Naavik.| Naavik
Rising, Bungie’s first mobile entry, launched Aug 28, 2025. Developed by NetEase, this free-to-play shooter expands Destiny to mobile & China.| Naavik
A digest of the latest things I've been up to this week. Includes a lot of tv, movies, youtube videos, and some interesting links.| An Archaeopteryx
The now-banned RMG section was a key contributor to India’s gaming sector, accounting for approximately 85% of its revenue, which hit $3.2B in 2024.| Naavik
Minigames in mobile titles date back to the late 2000s, with early examples like Kingdom Hearts Mobile, a collection of small in-game challenges.| Naavik
Apply for the new JetBrains Student Pack, get a chance to win a MacBook Pro, explore fresh courses, and discover smart tips on using AI.| The JetBrains Blog
The toy business has long overlapped with video games, of course, but recent months and years have seen a number of important changes.| Naavik
ഊർജ്ജം (Oorjjam, Malayalam; English: Energy) Greetings from the Rainmatter Foundation! India faces a critical energy challenge: Despite our commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2070, we remain heavily reliant on fossil fuels, which account for 75% of the greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, India imports nearly 40% of its energy needs, making it vulnerable to […] The post Oorjjam- September newsdigest from the Rainmatter Foundation appeared first on Rainmatter Founda...| Rainmatter Foundation Blog
हिमनदी ताल (Himanadī tāla, Nepali; Glacial lake) Greetings! Mountainscapes can be otherworldly – the weather is unpredictable and one never knows what the next bend might lead to: a valley, a stream, a forest or a wall of rocky cliffs. The higher one goes, the more magnificent the mysteries: snowy mountains host glaciers, which give […]| Rainmatter Foundation Blog
हरित क्रांति (Hindi: Harit Kraanti; Green Revolution) From 10-minute deliveries to social media timelines, food has become a ubiquitous element of our lives. We are able to access food so easily and with so much abundance that most of us fail to realise how much we take it for granted – an average Indian household […]| Rainmatter Foundation Blog
We are very proud to launch Gay Lynch’s historical epic Unsettled.| Ligature
We are delighted to be reissuing Eleanor Nilsson’s beloved young adult novel The House Guest. This is a love story and a ghost story, blending the 1980s suburban adventures of a Spielberg film with the most haunting elements of an MR James, Henry James or Shirley Jackson thriller, and drawing in literary threads from Ursula K Le Guin to the Old Norse author of Njal’s Saga.| Ligature
Garry Disher’s latest book in his best-selling and critically-acclaimed Wyatt series, Kill Shot, is out now from the excellent people at Text. This is the ninth outing for the hard-boiled, hard-bitten and frequently hard-up criminal—the last one, The Heat, was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2017, and Garry himself won the prestigious Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement award for his crime fiction in August 2018.| Ligature
We’re over the moon to be publishing new editions of Gillian Rubinstein’s classic young adult trilogy Space Demons in paperback and electronic formats. | Ligature
Garry Disher’s latest book in his best-selling and critically-acclaimed Wyatt series, The Heat, is out now from the excellent people at Text. This is the eighth outing for the hard-boiled, hard-bitten and frequently hard-up criminal—the last one, Wyatt, won the Ned Kelly award for Best Novel in 2010. And the first four Wyatt novels—Kickback, Paydirt, Deathdeal and Crosskill—are now available in new electronic editions from Ligature. | Ligature
