Game Refinery

AUGUST 2, 2023

A common way to monetize freemium mobile games is through in-app advertising, where ad placements are sold to generate profit from the entire player base. Statista’s Market Insights show that 48% of the revenue in casual games in 2022 came from in-game ads, with the share of IAA revenue increasing each year.

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Game Biz

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The year 2022 was a tumultuous one for the world economy, with a number of factors contributing to a volatile market. The mobile gaming industry was no exception and experienced a significant drop in eCPM (effective cost per thousand impressions) due to these challenges. How Does eCPM in 2022 Compare to 2021?

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

2022 has been a tough roller coaster for blockchain games. I think there is a lot to talk about, so let’s start with looking at what happened during that rollercoaster ride of 2022. The VC investment in blockchain games decreased significantly for the last half of 2022 (source: Jon Jordan ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2022

and Deconstructor of Fun’s latest collaborative report, we dive deep into a comprehensive analysis of the mobile gaming sector and which genres are defying the economic slowdown. Nevertheless, mobile gaming represents a whopping 61% of all games revenue , a number that would be even larger should we account for all the in-app-ad revenue.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In the second edition of The Alumni Effect, we’re focusing on another industry powerhouse: Activision Blizzard, which also includes the mobile gaming giant King. While this includes companies beyond game development — such as platforms, tech solutions, and web3 startups — all the entities in our study operate within the gaming sector.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

They say imitation is a form of flattery, and there’s no shortage of mobile games that share a striking similarity with other popular titles in the PC, console and mobile markets. Why isn’t there a mobile version of Fall Guys? That said, there are arguments for and against releasing a mobile version of Fall Guys.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 2, 2024

million in 2023, but a long way removed from the pandemic-induced highs of 2021 and 2022 (€80 million and €77.1 The majority of these games target the PC platform, accounting for 72.5% Mobile games follow, with 31%, while consoles like PlayStation and Xbox each represent 18.8% million in turnover, slightly up from €70.1

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

For example, the DIY home improvement retail market was valued at $848.20B in 2021 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 4.73% from 2022 to 2030. No wonder it scores so well as mobile games. The game generated downloads from April 2022 and peaked at 21.5M views on TikTok. String pull painting’ has 84.7M

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

With increased competition from IDFA regulation changes and new games consistently entering the market, two of the biggest challenges facing publishers and mobile game studios are acquiring new players (UA) and keeping those players in your game (player retention).

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Nintendo has released its financial results for the nine months ended December 31, 2022, and experienced a slight dip across the board, despite healthy software and Switch OLED sales. Sales on Nintendo's own platforms overall were down 2% year-on-year, to ¥1.25

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Well, according to Newzoo , the games industry is bouncing back from the decline in 2022. Also, after two years of negative growth, due to difficult market conditions, especially around user acquisition, mobile gaming is likely to recover. But what do the numbers say?

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

New year, new insights into the most innovative segment of the mobile gaming market: hyper-casual games! The much awaited “Hyper-Casual Benchmark Report” for Q4 2022 is here to provide you with up-to-date data on key performance indicators, user behavior, and trends in the hyper-casual gaming industry. Let us know!

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Game Refinery

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Mobile game developers are constantly looking for new ways to bring in new players and keep existing players engaged with their games. As our snapshot report into casual mobile games shows, players can’t get enough of renovation and construction elements. Player motivations of casual players (source: GameRefinery SaaS platform).

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2022

These are the Mobile Games Defying Economic Headwinds — and Why In data.ai These are the Mobile Games Defying Economic Headwinds — and Why In data.ai Bucking the Economic Slowdown In Q3 2022, consumers spent more than $6.7 We review the game of the week: Talking Tom Time Rush from Outfit7 ✉️ Received this email from a friend?

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Competition is fierce in the mobile game market, but even more so for developers of casual and hyper-casual games. So, what can mobile game developers do to increase the chances of their games performing well? Put simply: the mobile game market is currently seeing a lot of hybridization. The secret to its success?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 13, 2025

Historically, the platform has been associated with casual games like solitaire and bingo, but the fund signals a shift toward both more diverse and complex genres as well as more casual onesthink RTS, and FPS titles as well as the current selection of hybrid casual games. Thats $55 billion in new market opportunity over the next six years.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! Weve unified the code to make sure it works the same on both platforms, and weve fixed some bugs. Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3 ended up making it into 4.4 meaning that Godot 4.4

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Moonmana

JULY 4, 2022

Source Statista 2022. 2022 Game Development Trends. In this blog post, you will find out the most topical gaming trends 2022. On our side, so far, for 2022, we expect the next gaming industry trends. The same relates to lifestreaming, which is now widely used on many platforms and social media. lifestreaming.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Unlike these other formats, however, the games industry produces experiences that can differ vastly from one platform to the next. The Best Mobile Game award, on the other hand, is simply “for the best game playable on a mobile device.” Additionally, the lines between “mobile devices” and consoles are increasingly blurring.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

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. Hay Day has exceeded $2B. Both amazing.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2023

State of the Mobile Games Market The Western mobile games market , which we broadly analyze by removing the Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean markets from the numbers, saw overall installs climb by 14% to 47.5B Noticeably, Tencent’s PUBG Mobile and Garena’s Free Fire were both down 37%.

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Logic Simplified

JANUARY 14, 2024

billion in 2022 & is projected to grow from $5.76 Along with no device limitation, instant play, cross-platform gaming, and high-quality graphics, there are other benefits of Cloud gaming. Cloud Gaming service providers have the legal right to stream games on their platforms. billion in 2023 to $84.97

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. This prediction post is sponsored by PlayerWON™ , the only engagement and monetization platform for free-to-play PC and console games. In 2021 Sports category on mobile hit the wall. And as the real sports rebounded, so would EA Sport’s mobile games.

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Game Refinery

JUNE 23, 2022

Let’s find out what kind of interesting monetization features aimed specifically at new players can be found in top mobile games from East to West! In the successful shooter game Call of Duty: Mobile , players get familiar with several gachas that the game has to offer. Call of Duty: Mobile, “Lucky Board”.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Mythical Games’ NFT-based mobile racing game Nitro Nation World Tour (NNWT) is out now on Android and iOS. billion in 2022 rising to $9 billion in 2028, representing 18 percent annual growth. While NFT usage in games is still unproven at scale, major brands continue to invest.

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Cocos

APRIL 12, 2023

You can try axmol also: axmolengine/axmol: Axmol Engine – A Multi-platform Engine for Desktop, XBOX (UWP) and Mobile games. (A A radical fork of Cocos2d-x-4.0) (github.com)

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

This makes them inoperable with multiple platforms in the metaverse. This makes them inoperable with multiple platforms in the metaverse. It enables developers to create, export, and stream one model into multiple platforms simultaneously–and in multiple levels of detail–with the model topology generated automatically.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 10, 2024

When the full-scale invasion began in February 2022 we decided to temporarily leave Kyiv. The team consists of 20 people that provide full-cycle development for mobile, PC, consoles, VR/AR platforms, and porting services. With the game Hollow Home , Ukrainian indie studio Twigames shows what it means to live in an occupied city.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

Learn about the technology behind the in-game ThorAI (powered by Amazon Bedrock), and get a dive deep into fully voiced, interactive in-game NPCs in the companion mobile game Missing. launched in April 2023 and quickly grew to become the world’s #1 casual mobile game, surpassing $1B in revenue within six months.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Avalon is being built with Didimo’s Popul8 character creation platform and Inworld’s AI-powered character engine. ” Mobile game marketing drops in 2023 A new report, picked up by MobileGamer , from marketing and data agency AppsFlyer says mobile game companies are spending less on user acquisition. “In

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy ? As the Supercell blog post stated a year ago, “ We are establishing this new team to pursue a specific goal: assemble and enable the best talent in North America to create what’s next across any platform, not just mobile.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 21, 2024

When the full-scale invasion began in February 2022 we decided to temporarily leave Kyiv. The team consists of 20 people that provide full-cycle development for mobile, PC, consoles, VR/AR platforms, and porting services. With the game Hollow Home , Ukrainian indie studio Twigames shows what it means to live in an occupied city.

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Game Errors

MARCH 7, 2024

Moving forward in 2022, even though the global games market took a small hit of -5.1%, as per Newzoo , it was still the second biggest entertainment industry after the TV industry as it was worth $182.9 Global Games Market Revenue in 2022. billion and once again surpassed the revenue generated by the Movie and Music Industry combined.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The report shows that $19 billion has been funneled into Web3 gaming-related projects since 2018, with almost half that coming in 2022. In 2022, 811 Web3 games were launched, with 14 canceled. “The Web3 gaming market continues to grow, albeit slower after the 2022 market correction,” states the report.

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OPM Jobs

APRIL 13, 2023

Pocket Gamer Connects London 23rd – 24th | London, UK Pocket Gamer Connects provides value for every level of the mobile and portable device gaming industry from global corporations through to indie developers, whether you’re looking to develop strategies or make new connections. Find out more. Find out more. Find out more.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

“And… that’s what I did professionally for almost 10 years: released many games on different platforms, working for multiple companies. I left gamedev entirely for five years, because I was burned out from working on yet another F2P mobile casino game or whatever soulless product would feed my family.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Gaming expert speakers talked about the hottest topics in the gaming industry from 2022 predictions to rising game categories, from blockchain & NFT gaming to launch strategies. Mobile games market predictions in 2022 Michail Katkoff, Savage Game Studios, and Deconstructor of Fun.

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