Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

Millions of mobile games are out there battling for engagement, yet only a few titles manage to fight their way to the top. Tencent’s PUBG Mobile, and Riot’s League of Legends: Wild Rift) might just have the answers you’re looking for. Their secret to success? Mastering the art of LiveOps.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 24, 2024

The mobile market continues to evolve rapidly, driven by shifting user behaviors, technological advancements, and emerging economic trends. This blog post delves into those insights to provide a comprehensive overview of the mobile landscape. Sources: Sensor Tower State of Gaming 2024 Data.ai

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

If you’re looking for ways to improve player retention for your mobile game, hosting a collaboration event with a well-known franchise as part of your LiveOps might be the answer you’re looking for. To figure out what makes a brand collaboration successful, let’s look at some recent examples of in-game collaboration events in mobile games.

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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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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 26, 2024

Content stays king. year-over-year to $186 billion in 2024. Mobile gaming continues to dominate this category, accounting for $109.6 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. year-over-year. billion (3.6%

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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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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Starting in January 2024, Unity will introduce what it calls a ‘Runtime Fee’. Digitalization has resulted in a glut in gaming content and increased marketing expenses. Large platform companies often initially subsidize third-party content creators to ensure widespread adoption of their technical standards.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Succinctly, the Play Pendulum theory suggests that the video game industry alternates between two primary types of innovation: content innovation and distribution innovation. With this framework in mind, we can explore how different eras of the industry have oscillated between content and distribution innovation.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 6, 2024

It’s likely you’ve seen these playable ads on social media or mobile news feeds - they often resemble mini-games or animations that users can play around with or view. They are typically found on mobile devices as part of a larger app or within mobile web browsers. Are Playable Ads Working?

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2024

Let’s find out how KAYAC approaches development of Hypercasual games in 2024; what their expectations from the market are; which best practices for game development they can point out; and what tips for adapting games for the Western region they have to offer. As such, we intend to pursue both moving forward!”

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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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AWS Games

MARCH 8, 2024

The use of game engines to generate interactive content is a common choice for people these days. Unity , which is one of the popular game engines, is widely used for mobile applications that run on smartphones. It is also used for console and PC games, as well as in the metaverse, such as reality shows and simulating megacities.

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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. The average check size for Early-stage VC-backed gaming studios has fluctuated notably between 2020 and 2024. In 2024 YTD, ten deals totaled $49m in disclosed funding.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 4, 2024

Following another big week in terms of headcount reductions, interactive entertainment is on track to shed a record number of jobs in 2024. Since the start of the year, there have been 7,800 announced layoffs so far in 2024 , compared to 10,500 for all of 2023 and 8,500 in 2022. Each has let go of a similar portion of its workforce.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 2, 2024

A good UI UX design focuses on creating a website that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing while being optimized for mobile devices. It should also have high-quality, updated content, clear calls to action, and be fully accessible to people with disabilities. How Magento Can Improve Customer Journey Optimization?

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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. But Shooters on PC/Console are like Match games on Mobile -- one of the biggest genres, with players always hungry for another game… right? The player base dropped from 80 million monthly active users in 2021 to 50 million by mid-2024.

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Yotes Games

MAY 6, 2024

BGP will now be releasing in 4 parts throughout the year (seasonal style) starting with the prologue "Arrival Story" coming by the end of this month [ May 2024 ]. Act II and Act III will be released months later as free content updates. And there are plans, but not promises, to also release a PC version on Steam this year.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

During the lockdown years companies grew in headcount to supply content against the massive surge of demand. Secondly, consumers' disposable income was wiped out by the combination of inflation (everything cost more than just a couple of years ago) and higher interest rates (house, credit card, and car payments).

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 11, 2024

The problem is that at the end of 2024, the market is still noticeably smaller than it was three years ago in 2021. Mobile continued to search for growth in the post-IDFA world. Yet I don’t believe that will happen in 2024. This is partly the reason for the layoffs as the companies are rightsizing to the market of today.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 1, 2024

It’s well-known that our analysis of Call of Duty Mobile was printed on the wall of the studio to motivate the team to beat our early predictions. Everything looks tiny when compared with one of the biggest mobile games in history. A live game is expected to grow with each content update. That’s scary. Some were stinkers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 26, 2024

Recently, I had the privilege of discussing the latest market insights with Devan Brennan, Senior Consultant at Newzoo, dissecting their August 2024 market forecasts. Overall, the key insights from the August 2024 re-forecasts: Modest Market Growth: The gaming market is expected to see an uptick of 2.1% in growth for the year 2024.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Guest post by Kenneth Landen , Director of Product at Hit Factor Executive Summary In the ever-evolving landscape of mobile gaming, Supercell's Brawl Stars has undergone a remarkable resurgence, transforming challenges into triumphs. Culminating with the highest revenue month the game has seen in years in January 2024.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Connect with me for any content collaborations! Hybrid Monetization the word on everyones lips may lead you to believe that monetizing off upwards of 15 rewarded video impressions a day ( Unity Mobile Growth and Monetization Report ) alongside IAP starter packs is sexier than it seems. Thats right: hybrid monetization hybridcasual!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 12, 2020

More recently, as Supercell’s revenue and profitability have declined over the past few years, more questions have been raised about Supercell’s approach and even their value as a mobile games company. Do either of these companies have the potential to be the most valuable mobile gaming company in the world?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Guest post by David Fox , founder of Double Coconut — a design and development studio that has delivered hit mobile and web games for partners such as EA Sports, WB Games, Microsoft Casual Games, and more. Catizen — one of the top Telegram success stories — earned $25 million in revenue as of September 2024 with over 1 million paying users.

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AWS Games

APRIL 4, 2023

Stay tuned for follow up content on these sessions! Nuverse – publisher of MARVEL SNAP, shared a behind-the-scenes look at how it partnered with Second Dinner and Amazon Web Services to bring together marketing, operational, and technical capabilities to launch and scale the Mobile Game of the Year to millions of players across the globe.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 19, 2024

Written by Jesper Gustavsson , Director of Product at SYBO Games and a games industry veteran with 10 years of experience in building and operating mobile games as a product manager. In 2012, Microfun transitioned into the mobile gaming industry with the release of “Super Model” (an RPG fashion game).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 10, 2024

This perspective is vital, especially as the industry grapples with the phenomenon of 'rightsizing,' which we recently discussed in our post on The Three Game Industry Trends to Watch in 2024. Despite being content and valued in their current positions, these executives are ambitious and constantly contemplating their next career move.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 22, 2024

The 2000s and 2010s brought in digital content on screens of various sizes and resolutions, hence responsiveness gained in significance. Latest UX ensures mobile-friendly interfaces in keeping with the growing population using smartphones. The solution is to collect only what is necessary with clear user content.

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Grid Sage Games

JANUARY 1, 2024

Being the way a player interacts with all of a game’s content, UI is naturally central to the experience, thus one of the most fundamental aspects a game’s design needs to address is matching up that design with its corresponding system requirements, including the display device!

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 2, 2023

My estimation is that - if it happens at all - it would happen somewhere in 2024 the earliest. The main reasons are (1) that the open positions are for systems & liveops design, and multiple artists; and (2) that the game RPD looks flat, which points out to a lack of content and endgame systems.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Mobile games market predictions in 2022 Michail Katkoff, Savage Game Studios, and Deconstructor of Fun. Understanding players and marketability have also become more important, leading to larger companies increasingly building content fortresses – in which they acquire a user and move them between games in their portfolio.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Niantic’s AR-based mobile game took the world by storm and broke numerous world records , including the most revenue grossed by a mobile game in its first month ($206.5m). Our 2023 Midcore Gaming Apps report includes information on the latest trends and revenue-boosting opportunities across midcore mobile games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Even the ones that exist on mobile cannot push for mass adoption, because there is no clarity as to how blockchain games are positioned. This will prevent Apple from making any changes in the App Store while getting their cut from those blockchain games for every primary sale done inside the mobile app.

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