Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Diablo Immortal also builds on its narrative by periodically adding expansions, which add additional playable areas introduced through new story content. Farlight Games has put a lot of effort into bringing these heroes to life with AAA-quality 3D animation and voiceover work.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Electronic Arts (EA) engages players around the globe in immersive games across PC, console, and mobile. Known for popular game franchises including EA Sports FC, Madden NFL, Battlefield, and Apex Legends, EA regularly releases new game versions to mitigate issues, make improvements, and add new in-game content.

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 22, 2024

With 95% of game makers developing or maintaining a live service game, live events have become one of the most important elements of finding and maintaining success in not just the mobile market, but PC and console too. The mobile market is incredibly competitive and there’s a growing number of AAA console and PC developers entering the fray.

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Moonmana

JULY 25, 2022

Video games development incorporates PC games and consoles. According to the freshest statistics by Newzoo, in 2022 the industry continues to grow and become even more profitable worldwide, where the key driver belongs to console games. AAA video game development trends. Now let’s get closer to the current gaming trends.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

6 focusing on web3 projects, primarily content creators, with 5 in gaming and one mobile play-to-earn platform. — Echtra Games is working on an unannounced AAA ARPG for PC and console platforms. 4 mobile games developers, founded mainly by former King’s employees. — The studio was acquired by Sony in 2023.

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Cocos

MAY 7, 2023

It’s not preferred, at least for game content itself a win/mac native package is always more powerful. Not yet, we hope more devs can try on Nintendo Switch publish pstrejczek: Are there any plans to support other major console brands (xbox ,playstation) ?

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AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2023

Having collaborated on previous projects across a wide range of industries – from comics, AAA games, television, music videos, visual effects, literature, theater, virtual and augmented reality, hardware, software, and R&D – the group contemplated how to create a meaningful, community-driven game on their own terms.

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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. During the lockdown years companies grew in headcount to supply content against the massive surge of demand.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

Budgets for AAA console games could be more like $20M-$50M (notwithstanding Activision’s $200M+ budgets for Call of Duty although also including marketing and distribution). When we look at the landscape of the biggest and most successful game content companies today, we see that brand is the most common defensibility.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

It’s tricky taking any game from PC and Console to mobile. If you’re looking to switch your game from console to mobile, then Dicey Dungeons is a prime example of doing this right. They removed all of the F2P monetization, polished some of the features, and released a new batch of content for season 4. out of 10 in no time.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Making Call of Duty free Back when CoDO was conceived, consoles didn’t officially exist in China, AAA Mobile gaming was not yet a ‘thing’ and PC gaming mostly happened at Internet Cafes, where gamers paid to sit in front of computers to play, watch videos, eat, smoke and chat.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

Supercell attempted to fight this trend by building better tools and a greater focus on user-generated content. This is great news, as their key franchises desperately need more content more often. This has increased the interest in PC and Console platforms. We’re bullish about the potential for growth unlocked by this decision.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Some say Unreal is better just because it’s a common choice for AAA studios. Created by Epic Games in 1988, Unreal has won worldwide recognition for high-end graphics and photorealistic quality and has taken the mantle as the AAA game engine. Unreal, on the other hand, is considered to be the main player in the AAA industry.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It has come a long way since its release, and its applications have gone beyond game development to reach other areas like architectural visualizations, film, television content creation, broadcasting, and more. It was designed to work with the latest generation of consoles and PCs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

Additionally, the Pass-related quests are great to foster horizontal content exploration , by directing players to engage with specific game modes or incentivizing them to acquire, play with and upgrade all the characters. I get THIS MANY CONTENT for this little money!? LiveOps linked to Pass content. You’ve got a deal!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

Although most of them come from the F2P mobile sector, the industry has observed professionals transitioning from the PC/console space to focus on developing AAA-quality blockchain games. Improved UGC integration : There is no denying that User Generated Content is becoming more and more important each day.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

A true masterpiece of an ad rivaling launch trailers from AAA games. Tactical Shooters with a first-person or third-person perspective, similar to traditional PC or console games. Lack of power progression means that the games monetize mainly through cosmetics and thus rely on a murderous content treadmill of visual exciting seasons.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Yet this year it’s the console segment that is the biggest revenue growth driver, with an impressive +7.4% Moving into work-from-home setups, especially for the console’s many massive AAA titles, further hamstrung the majority of the studios. Console publishers rely on blockbuster franchises. year-on-year increase.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 11, 2024

source: Newzoo reports Despite the unprecedented slate of blockbuster titles, console games grew at a slower pace than inflation. Diablos, EAFC, Madden, Hogwarts Legacy, Baldurs Gate 3, Zelda Tears of the Kingdom… 2023 seemed like the year for consoles with all those blockbusters launching back-to-back. Yet this did not materialize.

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Game Daily

JUNE 1, 2023

That’s the question addressed by Ampere Analysis’ Piers Harding-Rolls in a recent webinar report, titled Dissecting the competitive landscape for console games in 2023. Harding-Rolls shared how much live service and multiplayer games have come to dominate the console landscape.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. AAA game franchises are in the middle of a renaissance on mobile. The Call of Duty series began with the original Call of Duty on PC and console in 2003 and has released one title every year since.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. Their first step would be to hire a core founding team around which they would build the development team.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

It specializes in producing both 2D & 3D content and has up to 200 employees. Specialties: – 3D Modeling, Physically Based Rendering, 3D Animation, 3D Design, Architectural Visualization, 3D Presentations, 3D Art, 2D Art, 3D Printing, 3D Multiplication, Interactive Walkthroughs, 3D Content, 2D Animation, NFT, and Metaverse.

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 30, 2023

Which makes sense, because the AAA game scene right now is soooo tedious. Yes, there is a lot of repeating content, and not all of it is interesting. Basically, the core storyline has a base, not-too-tough difficulty level, and then there is a lot of optional content that's much harder. Elden Ring. Baldur's Gate 3.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

But when you think about the AAA catalogs offered by Xbox Game Pass and Playstation Now, this just seems like a nearly impossible battle to take on for a streaming media company with little game development experience, no matter how flush with cash they are. These games could be a console, pc, or mobile. They could be all of the above.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

3rd party IPs account for about 20% of the Top 300 Grossing games in the USA (not counting event content). This is almost impossible to make game about unless it was a AAA console action game in the vein of Uncharted. Simply put, with the right circumstances, IPs mitigate risk.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 26, 2023

Another great use case is for PC and console games that require compute flexibility ( Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) , hybrid cloud paired with on-premises gear) with ability to burst into the cloud. Metaverse – metaverse experiences are creating results for 3D content creation, gaming, interactive events, and XR streaming.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 21, 2023

We preview all the amazing Deconstructor of Fun content coming next week to GDC then get into the news. Eric and Laura give Ethan and Phil major fomo about all the amazing people and sessions they missed at the gaming event of the year!

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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. The updates focused on the usage of NFTs and their functionalities inside games. to $184.4B

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