Game Development News

APRIL 5, 2024

This is a press release posted in addition to our usual editorial content.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 13, 2024

The news casts a shadow on Microsoft’s willingness to develop innovative content. And now that 2024 is shaping up to be a modest year at best in terms of consumer spending, a clear retrenchment has emerged across the industry as the dominant strategy. So, too, it seems, is the case with the quadruple shutdown.

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

AWS for Games GDC 2024 session highlights Wednesday, March 20 10:30-11:00am: Building and scaling MONOPOLY GO!, the #1 casual game launch of 2023 Room 2024, West Hall Scopely’s Monopoly Go! Featured partners include Perforce, JetBrains, Incredibuild, AccelByte, Pragma, Heroic Labs, Scenario, NVIDIA, Modulate, and Endava.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 28, 2024

Games for Change , in partnership with HP and Google Play, announced the winners of the second annual Diverse Voices, New Stories Challenge at the 2024 Games for Change Festival. Android release date: Summer 2024 Team Background: The team consists of students from different nationalities, backgrounds, and genders.

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Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

We saw games igniting player competition and social interaction through innovative LiveOps events, collaborating with beloved IPs to launch all-new gameplay experiences, weaning narrative threads into their content plans, leveraging seasonal themes to keep things fresh, and more.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Beyond Cutscenes : Todays dramatic content isnt yesteryears skippable cutscenes. Narrative content, on the other hand, is virtually unconstrained. Not an AI Story: While AI dramatically reduces content creation costs, its merely a tool which is well suited to untapped audience demand. iOS Top Grossing "4X" category.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 7, 2024

For the three months ended June 30, 2024: Software sales represented ¥486 billion ($3.30 As part of that, add-on content sales particularly grew compared to the same period last year, up 37%. billion) in revenue out of the total for the G&NS segment, an almost 20% growth year-on-year. Read more

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

And with that, the 2024 season comes to an end. For every year from 2014 to 2024 we shared two gems found on Steam and itch.io KinitoPET Desktop pets have risen to new popularity in 2024. The PvP auto-battler with a medieval fantasy theme has quickly gained popularity with content creators!

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 13, 2024

There's uncertainty about the content. If things really go sideways, you're looking at a little bit more. There's so much uncertainty when you look at the sales data or look to project this year. There's uncertainty around the hardware. Who the hell's making the games?" Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 10, 2024

Capcom has released its financial results for the fiscal year, reporting a record high profit for a seventh consecutive year driven by its digital contents business. For the 12 months ended March 31, 2024: Read more The Japanese publisher also reported record net sales for the year at ¥152.4

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 7, 2024

Sega has released its financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2024, showing an overall decline in net sales but a solid performance from its video games business. The Entertainment Contents division – which encompasses video games, toys and animation – saw sales rise 34% to ¥72.7 billion ($102.5

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 21, 2024

Circana has published its July 2024 US recap, along with its annual Future of Video Games report. Its July 2024 findings report a 10% uplift in video game spending when compared to the same time in 2023, with the "resurgence in the market reflected across hardware, content, and accessories categories."

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, a seismic shift that was certainly felt at the 2024 Game Developer Conference (GDC) held last week in San Francisco at the Moscone Convention Center. Check it out , and follow the recap below for a full rundown of AWS for Games activities at GDC 2024.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In its latest statement as part of a CMA investigation looking into mobile browsers and the cloud gaming market, the company said that "despite the changes Apple made to [its g]uidelines between January and March 2024, many of them still represent an obstacle to cloud gaming native apps." Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

GamesIndustry.biz will be contributing to the B2B content at MCM x EGX 2024. Read more

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Now we’re in 2024 -- and since 2020, we haven’t seen any new IP get a foothold into this market. The player base dropped from 80 million monthly active users in 2021 to 50 million by mid-2024. Players expect consistent, fast updates, and any delay or lack of content can quickly drive them back to older, more reliable games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The post announced 2024 as Supercells best year ever, and the numbers make a strong case: Revenue: 2.8 Supercell acquired players like never before in 2024 - both with brand collaborations and good old user acquisition campaigns. In reality, before 2024, Brawl Stars experience a consistent decline in revenue.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 12, 2024

Source : AppMySite ) WordPress is a monolithic content management system that strengthens millions of websites. The top WordPress trends that hold enormous potential in 2024, as seen through our critical lens, are listed below. Headless CMS A content management system without a presentation layer is called a headless CMS.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 26, 2024

Capcom has announced that it has revised its full-year earnings forecast for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024. The change was attributed to the performance of its digital content business. Previously, the figure was ¥140 billion ($892 million), and now the forecast is set to ¥152.4 billion ($971 million).

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

From strategy development, content creation, coding to testing, the development process reflects on the successful delivery of the game. Top Unreal Game Development Companies to Watch in 2024 01 LOGIC SIMPLIFIED Logic Simplified is a leading game development company in India, with 12+ years of experience in creating top-notch games.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 6, 2025

We believe that Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori will be fresh and interesting to existing fans, since the game’s narrative and thematic content is very much in line with the Windstorm spirit, so to say. Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori will release in Steam Early Access in September 2024. Support the Kickstarter campaign here.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The success is also made evident by Lily’s Garden, which added its own Wordle-inspired minigame, Juice Bar , in July 2024. The only major difference between the two is cosmetic, with Lily’s Garden players needing to figure out the “recipes” of fruits by placing them in the right order.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In terms of both technical achievements and content expansion, 2024 was a huge year for Cogmind… but first, the traditional opening collage, a quick visual summary of the year: Selection of images from the past year of Cogmind-related development as posted on this blog, forums, and social media (larger size here ). Including art!

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 28, 2024

Strategic deployments with content creators simply hold too much potential to ignore when launching a game, particularly as budgets continue to tighten for the vast majority of teams through the foreseeable future. Read more

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Game Refinery

MARCH 27, 2025

Two people who know all this too well are Kalle Heikkinen, Market Insights at Liftoff Intelligence, and Altti Fromholdt, Content Creator at Liftoff Intelligence. We recently touched upon something similar happening for Hello Kittys 50th anniversary in our September 2024 analyst bulletin , suggesting this trend is already in the works.

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Game Development News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This is a press release posted in addition to our usual editorial content. The …

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Game Development News

JULY 24, 2024

The devcom Developer Conference 2024 is just four weeks away. Aiming for a full program with 250+ speakers and approximately 200 sessions across 15 stages, the conference is set to break new content records.

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Game Dev Unchained

JANUARY 16, 2025

Introduction Ive been in the game industry for years now, and 2024 has easily been one of the toughest years Ive seen. Mass Layoffs: A Brutal Year for Developers One of the biggest topics on our minds was the wave of layoffs that hit the industry in 2024. Or are we just making content platforms? But now, its about speed.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 26, 2024

Content stays king. year-over-year to $186 billion in 2024. Console hardware sales are projected to decline sharply by 31% in 2024 and another -11% in 2025E, due to the end of the current console generation cycle. Some highlights from the report: The global market for interactive entertainment is on course to reach $250.2

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

iXie, through this article, explores the top 5 mobile game monetization strategies to consider in 2024 for the best results. Providing regular updates, incentivizing events, and delivering fresh content are some common strategies adopted to keep players engaged. This will help maximize monetization potential and improve retention.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 17, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Microsoft has announced that it will be closing the digital Xbox 360 Store on July 29, 2024. Consumers will not be able to purchase games, DLC, and content from the store on 360 consoles and the Xbox 360 Marketplace. Read more

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Game From Scratch

MARCH 21, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Blender Launch Blender Extensions App Store At GDC 2024 the Blender Foundation have publicly revealed their new App Store of sorts for Blender, Blender Extensions. This will replace the existing add-ons system as well as provide a portal for discovering add-ons and themes for Blender.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 20, 2024

At Gamescom 2024, NVIDIA announced our first on-device small language model (SLM) for improving the conversation abilities of game characters. At Gamescom 2024, NVIDIA announced our first on-device small language model (SLM) for improving the conversation abilities of game characters. We also announced.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2024

higher than Q2 2024). lower than in Q2 2024) and Tier-1 East remained flat. by VOODOO with 23M installs in Q3 2024. Additionally, players can try out over 40 different skins, and the content that allows them to earn rewards by collecting stickers enhances user satisfaction. with 18M downloads in Q3 2024.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

We were so excited to base our content around ancient China. Reinhard Wu explains: “The second test showed many players wanting to experience a city sim with more playable content, something they prioritized over historical accuracy. Historical content White Star Studio is a small team, founded by 4 people.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 29, 2023

We look towards 2024 with a mixture of hope and fear, but also with a strong belief in the ability of people to bounce back. See you in 2024! This year was a two-faced monster. A stellar year for game releases, that’s for sure. But also a dreadful year for job security in game development, with a heartbreaking 10.000 layoffs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Take hybridization in gaming: while hybrid casual games were the buzz back in 2019, it’s only now—in 2023 and 2024—that they’re fully coming into their own. While some players are willing to pay for exclusive content, others prefer progressing through rewarded ads. Automation driven by AI is also reshaping user acquisition.

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