GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 3, 2024

There's no shortage of success stories surrounding Baldur's Gate 3, and Larian Studios creative content manager Ben Maltz-Jones added to the stack in a Game Developers Conference session titled "Roll Play: The Strategy Behind Baldur's Gate 3 on TikTok." million likes spread across more than 100 TikToks uploaded to the site. Read more

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Cocos

JANUARY 12, 2024

Mini-Game Runtime In China, many popular mini-game platforms, such as WeChat, Douyin (TikTok), QQ, and Kwai, have opted for Mini-Game Runtime technology architecture rather than the traditional H5/Webview as their runtime environment. Rich content sources, compatible with mainstream H5 engines all over the world.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 18, 2024

While it’s clear that there is a moral and a growing legal imperative to protect players from toxicity on an online platform, it’s also the right thing for studios to do when it comes to increasing an online game’s revenue. ” Read more

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Starting in January 2024, Unity will introduce what it calls a ‘Runtime Fee’. Based on the number of users installing a game, the platform will trigger a fee depending on specific revenue and installation thresholds. Digitalization has resulted in a glut in gaming content and increased marketing expenses.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 24, 2024

Sources: Sensor Tower State of Gaming 2024 Data.ai Overall downloads have declined on both iOS and Android platforms , with Play Store downloads seeing a more significant drop. 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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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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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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Cocos

MARCH 31, 2024

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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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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 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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AWS Games

JULY 23, 2024

With social interaction central to the gaming experience, demand for user-generated content (UGC) across games is exploding, from Roblox to Fortnite and beyond. Set to launch by the end of 2024, it runs on servers powered by AWS and is currently in an alpha test phase on Android in Southeast Asia.

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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. In other words, when you’re looking at the market sizes of various genres on different platforms, you have to first exclude the players who are playing the key franchises. Tools, tech and platforms (aka.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 28, 2024

What had been brewing on PC for years before with games like Counter-Strike, was now dominant cross-platform and reaching the “masses” on console. Now we’re in 2024 -- and since 2020, we haven’t seen any new IP get a foothold into this market. Content Productivity : Developers need to find ways to create content more efficiently.

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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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Logic Simplified

JULY 2, 2024

It should also have high-quality, updated content, clear calls to action, and be fully accessible to people with disabilities. Magento is an open-source e-commerce platform that has been used to create more than 124,071 live websites, as of May 2024. Let's discover how data driven UX design creates successful products.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Connect with me for any content collaborations! Read more in the Gamesforum study: Hybrid Monetization 2024 Trends. This was new in 2018, so in 2024 dont be one of the basic studios left behind! Handling our Brat Summer cases doesnt result in one model winning across platforms.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Not only are collaboration events a great way to engage players, but they’re also a great way to boost your game’s monetization through the addition of new content, such as event-exclusive cosmetic items and collectibles. Promotional collaboration events popularity across US, China and Japan (source: GameRefinery SaaS platform).

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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. The average check size for Early-stage VC-backed gaming studios has fluctuated notably between 2020 and 2024. in venture capital across 40 funding rounds.

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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. The console business is not growing in terms of audience and time spent on platforms. Yet I don’t believe that will happen in 2024. In fact, according to Newzoo, hours played on the console went down last year.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

At the recent Unreal Fest , the company sought to persuade partners to throw in with EGS, with a range of programs and promotions that it says will maximize revenues, without harming lifetime sales on other platforms. “In 2024, we have plans to level up both the partner and player experience.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In an ever-chaotic gaming business, Telegram seems to finally be a platform where a studio can launch with self-determination and have a real shot at a profitable game. 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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Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

We’ve settled into a holiday lull for a bit in new Star Trek streaming content, so I want to take a moment to look into 2024. We’re also going to get a chance to watch Star Trek: Discovery ’s final season sometime in 2024. Some of these critiques have merits, but a great deal of them don’t.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 8, 2024

Convai is a versatile developer platform for designing characters with advanced multimodal perception abilities. Convai is a versatile developer platform for designing characters with advanced multimodal perception abilities. These characters are designed to integrate. Learn more about Convai technologies.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi and TV Series (2019-2024) with the same name. Writers should create a complete database of industry professionals who work with similar content or genres. The platform's intelligent automation eliminates the traditional time-consuming process of manual summary creation.

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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. If that’s still not enough for you, remember that you can also find hundreds of additional examples by simply searching with the “Minigame” feature tag in the GameRefinery platform.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 8, 2024

They are advancing real-time content generation, text summarization, customer service chatbots, and question-answering use cases. AT CES 2024, NVIDIA announced several developer tools to accelerate LLM inference and development on NVIDIA RTX Systems for Windows PCs.

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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. Adaptability Contemporary User Experience trends are evidence of how UX adapts to evolving technology to ensure integration with changing platforms and devices.

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iXie gaming

MAY 23, 2023

The industry has also created job opportunities in areas such as game development, coaching, and management, as well as content creation and broadcasting. eSports players also have the potential to earn money from streaming on platforms like Twitch, where they can monetize their gameplay and interact with their fans.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 19, 2024

The game makes use of rewarded video ads, which most likely contribute around 15-20% on top of IAP, which then puts us around a daily average of $535.000 (using July 2024 revenue as a base). Company and Background History Microfun was founded in 2008 in Beijing, China and initially focused on social platforming applications.

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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 is used for use cases beyond games, and these new use cases may not run on traditional game platforms, so being able to build for a wide variety of platforms is critical.

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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! It had to wait.

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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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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 11, 2024

After leading Phoenix Labs Vancouver through an expedited M&A process, Gittins returned to her indie roots to complete and ship ‘Potions: A curious Tale’ in March 2024, well over 10 years after that first prototype. ” Initially conceived as a portfolio piece, the game evolved over a decade with content-heavy, story-driven mechanics.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

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. Mobile ad spending worldwide is going up and shifting faster than ever from traditional channels like TV, OOO into digital.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Based on Capcom’s massive Monster Hunter franchise, which has collectively sold more than 94 million copies over various platforms and iterations over the past two decades, Niantic’s latest title was off to a good start. But their latest release, Monster Hunter Now, appears to have finally hit the mark.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The rules regarding IAP methods are now the following: Apps may not use their own mechanisms to unlock content or functionality, such as license keys, augmented reality markers, QR codes, cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency wallets, etc. It will help big platforms like the App Store to meet on a common ground.

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