PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Biggest growth The market dynamics reveal a notable shift among gaming platforms. PC gaming is set to outperform both mobile and console gaming in revenue growth, with a projected increase of 4.0% In contrast, mobile gaming, despite its significant market share, is expected to grow at a slower rate of 3.0%

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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. Also, after two years of negative growth, due to difficult market conditions, especially around user acquisition, mobile gaming is likely to recover.

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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 Games with IPs and/or high production values bucked the trend. TWIG #215 THE 2023 PREDICTIONS ????

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Artoon

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Multigaming Platform Providers are the new talk in online mobile gaming. The […] The post Multigaming Platform App Development Cost in 2023 appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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Game Biz

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The mobile gaming industry was no exception and experienced a significant drop in eCPM (effective cost per thousand impressions) due to these challenges. How We Structured Our Study The data in this report is separated per ad format, platform, and country. Were Some Games Affected More Than Others? Different countries.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Mobile gaming has become popular in recent times thanks to the growing number of mobile device users. Several mobile game engines are used to create mobile games. However, Unity has stood out as one of the most preferred and trusted mobile game engines. Let’s find out.

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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).

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Much has changed in mobile gaming since then—and not all of them for the better—but one thing’s for sure: Scopely has more than delivered. Back in 2019, we explored how Scopely was carving out its own space in the industry with a unique approach to game development focused on building a strong product foundation.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Top image: The House of Tesla by Blue Brain Games This year the Slovakian games industry is expected to generate an estimated €70.3 million in 2023, but a long way removed from the pandemic-induced highs of 2021 and 2022 (€80 million and €77.1 The industry employs approximately 1,100 professionals in 2024, up from 1,017 in 2023.

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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. Did you know that more than half of all people with an internet connection play games? Or that 87% of players spend money on in-game items?

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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. It has the highest number of top-rated games in two decades, making it an exceptional year for the industry. But was it all rosy?

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 12, 2023

During re:Invent 2023, the AWS for Games team showcased the latest ways our customers are using AWS game development tools and introduced several new purpose-built guidance and partner solutions that are now available in the AWS Games Solution Library.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Given these incredible tailwinds, it’s not surprising that mobile game companies have delivered the vast majority of gaming venture returns in recent years. But now the era of startup mobile gaming growth is over, as you can read here. Games become more expensive to make. Of these, about 211 were studios.

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Moonmana

JUNE 7, 2023

This time we’ll unveil the most common reasons why studios choose Unity for creating a game for Android in 2023. Keep on reading and find out what it takes to build a highly-rated mobile game by using the Unity engine and what you should be ready to go through. Is Unity Good for Mobile Games?

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Distribution innovation periods, on the other hand, focus on finding new ways to deliver games to players and generate revenue. This might involve the introduction of new platforms, novel distribution methods, or innovative monetization models. Today, the platform sees the release of almost 15,000 new titles each year.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Our track record for 2023 predictions: 4 correct 3 partly correct 1 wrong See what where we missed and why. Prediction #1 Organic Discovery Will Be Declared Deceased We predicted that in 2023, the iOS and Play stores will be officially declared dead - and no funeral will be held. Roughly put, 2023 created two groups of marketers.

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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. The game features action-combat including magical powers in player-vs-environment and player-versus-player modes. The game’s open beta test is set for this month.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

AWS Session Highlights Harnessing generative AI to create unlimited content within game worlds : Saltwater Games details the generative AI architecture of “Resurgence,” an upcoming free-to-play, post-apocalyptic, open-world crafting and survival game. the #1 casual game launch of 2023 : Scopely’s Monopoly Go!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 24, 2024

In a recent podcast featuring Lexi Sydow , Director of Corporate Marketing and Insights at Sensor Tower, several key insights were shared about the current state and future of mobile gaming, mobile marketing, and the dynamic between apps and games. Sources: Sensor Tower State of Gaming 2024 Data.ai

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Last week in Istanbul, Google and Deconstructor of Fun brought together a thousand-strong group of high-level mobile game execs to talk about the future of the business. His data and insights were based on US data as a proxy for the western market, and focused on platform privacy, or the “Apple global mobile game recession”.

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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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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. The South Korean studio was founded in 2020 by a team of game veterans. The Devil Within: Satgat will release on PC in Q4 2023 and later consoles.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This blog post presents data and findings from an annual survey of professional video game developers conducted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) during October and November, 2022, alongside details about new AWS for Games solutions and customer stories. 75% of developers view the cloud as pivotal to their success in 2023.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 13, 2024

The decision criteria varies depending on the type of game being released, the game launch timeline, the available engineering resources, and studio budgets. Harmony Games, a mobile game studio founded in 2023, considered two possible paths for solving the backend problem.

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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. Finally, we concentrated exclusively on the gaming industry. average in 2021, reflecting strong investor confidence in founders from Riot Games.

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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. Freemium games reach wider audiences, but the risk of churn is always looming. Dragon City Mobile’s ad task event. Dragonscapes Adventure’s ad task event.

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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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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.

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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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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.” So, what are we to make of Game of the Year awards for mobile titles?

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2024

We can take inspiration from content going viral on platforms like TikTok and YouTube, and indeed, we have created hit games in 2023 by doing so. Our game Eating Simulator , for instance, drew inspiration from this YouTube video with 1.6M Breaking down the Hybrid game business into its elements will be important.”

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

With IDFA regulation changes and an influx of new games entering the market, publishers and mobile game studios are facing an ever-uphill battle to acquire new players (UA) and retain them. However, as we wrote last year , many top-grossing mobile games have found that minigames are the best way to boost UA and player retention.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The offer is restricted to developers making games for non-commercial purposes on non-console platforms. “We have seen other platforms making awkward moves with their pricing and terms, so we thought, what if we did the opposite, something that could actually be good for developers?

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Big Games

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Depending on these, you can make a budget-friendly game or the next GTA. Keep reading this blog to understand how mobile game development costs differ from AAA games. Until now, Cyberpunk 2077 was labeled the most expensive game of all time; however, it’s expected to lose its title soon.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 15, 2024

Shifting gears from the numbers, 2023 marked a significant expansion for My.Games. Diversified Gaming Portfolio. The company's strength lies in a diversified gaming portfolio that spans various genres and platforms, including PC, console, and mobile. Opportunities: Cross-Platform Experience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Closing out the year, Seufert, Kress, and Laura discuss the 2022 Game Awards and what game launches to look forward to in 2023, Apple’s concessions on outside the app store payments, a brief FTC vs MSFT update, Playtika’s layoffs and Brawl Stars removing Loot Boxes. TWIG #213 THE SEASON FINALE! This is the last TWIG of 2022!

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