PreMortem.Games

MARCH 16, 2023

So, how (relatively) bad did the PC and console market do in 2022? In the first ever PC & Console Gaming Report Newzoo dives into this section of the market. Pandemic gaming Last year, the combined revenue from the PC and console market reached $92.3 The battle for attention in the PC and console market is heating up.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

That’s even more true now than it was back in April 2023. Perhaps the most notable example is the Magic Cauldron event, launched in September 2023, which we named the “Best Minigame Event” for the Casual Market in this year’s Mobile GameDev Awards.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 24, 2023

The creators of the popular JetBrains Rider IDE wrote on their blog“ At present, Unity stands out as one of the most popular and versatile cross-platform game engines available, catering to the creation of 2D, 3D, virtual reality, and augmented reality games. The latest version of Unity 2023 is Unity 2022.2.11 Unity 2022.2.11

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

1 Organic Discovery Will Be Declared Deceased In 2023, the iOS and Play stores will be officially declared dead - and no funeral will be held. Yet the hard truth is that these initiatives by the platforms have done little except prolonged development cycles and created jobs inside the platforms themselves.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

Sources close to the matter told Bloomberg that the platform holder has already told suppliers and assembly partners it expects to manufacture more units of its console than in the current financial year. It has not told partners of a specific target. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Krafton announced its fourth quarter and full-year earnings today, showing declines for 2023 overall and mixed results for the fourth quarter, including the company's first quarterly net loss since it began trading publicly in 2021.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 26, 2024

This conversation painted a nuanced picture of the current market, particularly the PC/console segment, and offered a glimpse into its future trajectory. Mobile Opening Up: mobile gaming is set to grow by 3%, driven by improving economic conditions, platforms opening up, and increasing the success of existing big hits.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

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. by 2023, suggesting a reassessment of risk by investors. This timeframe allowed us to select the most accurate data using our proprietary deals database.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 22, 2023

Image: pikisuperstar on Freepik Newzoo’s Global Gamer Study 2023 is a true treasure trove of interesting facts about the people out there that hopefully end up with your game in their hands. More than one platform Almost half of all gamers actively play on more than one platform.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 13, 2023

But we are considering expanding to consoles and VR as well.” Like subscription-based gaming platform Utomik. Edwin van Gessel is CEO of this newly formed studio and he’s showing off his first title to their publishing partner. It’s a fully animated social game for mobile and desktop.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This might involve the introduction of new platforms, novel distribution methods, or innovative monetization models. Atari led the charge, creating new types of games for home consoles. Atari’s strategy centered on creating a wide variety of games, emphasizing the abundance of titles available for their consoles.

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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. Take influence from viral trends on media platforms, such as TikTok, but remember that these trends won’t stay around forever.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In their latest free report , Newzoo is optimistic about the total market outlook for PC and console. And even though this year’s release catalog is expected to be less impressive than 2023’s, live-service games, and back catalog sales will make up for it. Games companies will employ risk reduction strategies like avoiding new IPs.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 19, 2024

The gaming industry has achieved significant milestones in recent years, and 2023 was no exception. Recent data has shown that 2023 has been among the best years in the gaming sector. Join us as we look back at some of the key trends and issues that shaped the gaming industry in 2023. But was it all rosy? Approximately 6.92

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Jaunty Bear Games

APRIL 5, 2023

In this blog post, we will take a closer look at Unity engine vs Godot in 2023. Unity supports a wide range of platforms, including PC, mobile, and consoles. Godot is also lightweight, making it an excellent choice for developing games for mobile platforms and web browsers.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 11, 2023

Every day, new games are released across all platforms, each focusing on a distinct genre. Additionally, several games have platforming features, secret stages, and hidden treasure chests, all encouraging exploration, discovery and storytelling. Adventure games are likely for those who enjoy exploring and finding new experiences.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 18, 2023

The conference, one of the largest gaming events in the world, offers a platform for game developers, publishers, hardware manufacturers, and cloud providers for games to showcase their latest products, make announcements, and provide hands-on demonstrations to attendees. Learn more and register for the event. Learn more.

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Game Errors

JUNE 6, 2023

Both of these titles with cross-platform play capacity. So, we have made our estimation for 2023’s data in some cases. However, we can exclude the 2023 part, as it’s the middle of the year. We have used data till April 2023. The PS is the most popular platform for this title, with around 40% of gamers.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The two largest recipients of these flows in recent years have been: Web3 / crypto / blockchain games PC + console / Games-as-a-Service (GaaS) I’m not going to talk about crypto, suffice to say that its prospects currently look about as bleak as SBF’s. The pivot into PC and GaaS is more interesting. Games become more expensive to make.

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Game Errors

APRIL 4, 2023

Reboot the game, the console, or the PC Check your internet connection. Check if all platforms are online Select the game from the drop-down and you should see the status below. If it’s working fine, you should see it as All platforms ONLINE. Reset your network devices.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 10, 2023

Driving force behind the upcoming action-platformer The Devil Within: Satgat is Manze Lee, Creative Director and CEO of Newcore Games. After releasing the mobile game I Am Zombie the 20 member team is now working hard on their newest project which combines action-platformer elements with the souls-like genre.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 8, 2024

We lived in a complex in Durban, and I was lucky enough to have my big cousins as neighbors with games and consoles. His school deadlines were extended, affecting his final year project, Null Factor, but even on its smaller scale, it won an award at the Fak’ugesi Festival in 2023. I was really naughty and I loved games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2022

After soaring to new heights during the lockdowns, mobile gaming got hit by platform privacy changes and an overall decrease in engagement as the world opened up again. What continues to make mobile games appealing is the unrivaled player base, established distribution platforms, and performance marketing, which enables games to scale.

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AWS Games

MARCH 14, 2023

By Rob Schoeppe, General Manager, Global Game Tech Solutions & Business Development at AWS With the 2023 Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) just one week away, the AWS for Games team has been talking with our customers, partners, and internal team about the trends they think will have the largest impact on the industry over the years to come.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 13, 2024

Harmony Games, a mobile game studio founded in 2023, considered two possible paths for solving the backend problem. The second was partnering with a third-party Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform (a common choice for startup game studios), but Harmony found the solutions difficult to customize for their game.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Battle passes have crept into almost every mobile game genre imaginable, with our platform showing that 66% of mobile games in the top 20% have incorporated the feature. Battle pass feature popularity trend in US iOS mobile games 2018-2023 (source: GameRefinery Platform). State of the Survival is far from the only one, too.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 24, 2024

Overall downloads have declined on both iOS and Android platforms , with Play Store downloads seeing a more significant drop. 2023 was a challenging year for the mobile gaming market. At the same time, we’ve seen a strong push for off-store payment with platforms like Xsolla onboarding clients across the industry.

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Game Errors

JULY 24, 2023

Two record-breaking games from Blizzard certainly marked 2012 and 2023, the years they were respectively released. Worth mentioning is that this is a sum of selling copies across all platforms for which the game is available. In January 2023, Microsoft announced acquiring Activision Blizzard for $68.7 This is just the beginning.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

Our opinion on why is in line with Ilkka’s words above The lack of successful new game launches by Supercell stems mainly from the fact that all their games after Brawl Stars only offered incremental innovation over products that already existed in mobile , instead of a more disruptive proposal on the platform.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Cross-Platform Compatibility Cross-platform gameplay is one of the biggest game development trends of 2023. More gamers prefer games that can be played on multiple devices, including consoles, laptops, and mobile devices. So, game developers must seek mobile game engines that support cross-platform development.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2023

Mediatonic must cherry-pick UGC rounds to appear on the main menu, although the team reports working on discoverability throughout 2023. Can slow-rolling UGC pack the punch Mediatonic needs to defend the knockout genre on the console before mobile competitors eat their lunch? How did Fall Guys add User Generated Content mid-flight?

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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. Tools, tech and platforms (aka. Just consider last year.

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AWS Games

JUNE 15, 2023

x Components Installed Development environment setup This section will walk you through the steps required to get an Unreal Engine 5 dedicated server compiled for the LinuxArm64 platform which is compatible with running on an AWS Graviton3 instance. Select the platforms dropdown, select LinuxArm64. NET Framework 4.6.x

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The platform killed the booming gaming business by handicapping the distribution channels used to grow our games. I believe that mobile games could be facing the same deliberate death-by-a-platform as games Facebook suffered a decade ago. Facebook used games for growth and discarded them quickly as it didn’t need them anymore.

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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. Additionally, the lines between “mobile devices” and consoles are increasingly blurring. 24, 2023) The Game Awards Mobile Game of the Year (Dec. Award for Mobile Game of the Year (Feb.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Despite having the console, gaming was reserved for wintry days and those precious moments when friends visited. Then we literally hit the ground running for AGW 2023 in January. She chuckles as she recalls, “I used to get pretty upset if a friend came over and wanted to be the Mario brother in the red shirt.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 21, 2023

The most active sectors by value were technology (24 percent), followed by mobile and esports (19 percent each), mobile cloud gaming (18 percent) and console / PC (15 percent). The console and PC sector saw a 38 percent share of activity by value. acquisition of games data analytics platform Wargraphs in late May; Atari’s $19.5

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