Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

If market trends, especially on PC and Console, are something you want to hear more about, I highly suggest you check out my conversation with Newzoo’s Head of Consulting, Ben Porter below. The time spent on these accounts for over 60% of the time spent in games in 2023. Most AAA simply cannot afford the team sizes of today.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

The game is an almighty genre mishmash almost reminiscent of a AAA console game, carefully combining heavy story and character-driven RPG elements with hectic shooter gameplay. The narrative is a vital part of the drive toward in-game progression. The range of genres on display in X-Hero is incredibly diverse.

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AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2023

Having collaborated on previous projects across a wide range of industries – from comics, AAA games, television, music videos, visual effects, literature, theater, virtual and augmented reality, hardware, software, and R&D – the group contemplated how to create a meaningful, community-driven game on their own terms.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

by 2023, suggesting a reassessment of risk by investors. While this is a decrease from previous years—$153 m in 2022 and $158m in 2023—the steady number of deals indicates continued VC interest in startups founded by ex-ATVI employees. Echtra Games is working on an unannounced AAA ARPG for PC and console platforms.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Electronic Arts (EA) engages players around the globe in immersive games across PC, console, and mobile. The solution: Known Version Patching (KVP) on AWS To address these challenges, EA implemented a new game patch deployment approach in August 2023 called Known Version Patching (KVP). Figure 1: EA KVP architecture diagram.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Some say Unreal is better just because it’s a common choice for AAA studios. Created by Epic Games in 1988, Unreal has won worldwide recognition for high-end graphics and photorealistic quality and has taken the mantle as the AAA game engine. Unreal, on the other hand, is considered to be the main player in the AAA industry.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

And yet, 2023 seems to be the year when Supercell finally gives in to larger teams that are “ unrestrained by anything except what’s best to serve players ”. This has increased the interest in PC and Console platforms. This is great news, as their key franchises desperately need more content more often.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

Although most of them come from the F2P mobile sector, the industry has observed professionals transitioning from the PC/console space to focus on developing AAA-quality blockchain games. For example, Gala Games acquired Ember Entertainment at the beginning of 2023 in order to bring Ember’s portfolio onto their platform.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

billion in revenue it will generate in 2023. Yet this year it’s the console segment that is the biggest revenue growth driver, with an impressive +7.4% Moving into work-from-home setups, especially for the console’s many massive AAA titles, further hamstrung the majority of the studios. year-on-year increase.

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Game Daily

JUNE 1, 2023

That’s the question addressed by Ampere Analysis’ Piers Harding-Rolls in a recent webinar report, titled Dissecting the competitive landscape for console games in 2023. Harding-Rolls shared how much live service and multiplayer games have come to dominate the console landscape.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. Their first step would be to hire a core founding team around which they would build the development team.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Memento Mori : Japan’s Last Mobile Game Hit Made US$34 Million In 24 Days InvestGame : From Q1 to Q3 gaming deals hit $37bn Asia’s gamers will exceed a billion by 2026 | Niko Partners Mobile gaming predicted to have the largest compound growth in 2023-2030 with a CAGR of 16.8 year-on-year Newzoo forecasts game market will shrink 4.3%

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AWS Games

JANUARY 26, 2023

Another great use case is for PC and console games that require compute flexibility ( Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) , hybrid cloud paired with on-premises gear) with ability to burst into the cloud. We are excited to see what game developers build this year and look forward to an even larger gaming presence at re:Invent 2023.

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