GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Europe posted a solid month for video game sales during November, driven by Call of Duty, EA Sports FC 24 and PS5. million video games were sold across tracked European markets, a rise of 20% over the year before. However, this is because November 2023 was a 'five week' month compared with the four weeks of November 2022.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 12, 2023

At a glance: 159 million console and PC games were sold across tracked European markets in 2022, a drop of 7.1% This is according to the latest GSD data, which tracks physical and digital game sales across Europe. The data does not include games from indie teams. over the year before. Read more.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 6, 2024

Since MiHoYo released Genshin Impact in 2020, an irreversible shift in perception happened across the gaming industry and among many gamers: free-to-play mobile games can actually be good?! Arguably, Genshin Impact had all the ingredients of a fully-fledged AAA console/PC game.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 4, 2023

Top image by Freepik The games industry has been one of the most resilient and profitable sectors in the entertainment industry. According to Newzoo’s PC & Console Gaming Report , the PC and console market still outperformed previous forecasts despite a slight decline of revenue (-2,2% year over year) in 2022.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox When you play Resident Evil Village on an iPad Pro, it's flabbergasting to believe that this is Capcom's latest mainline entry running natively on a mobile device, looking every bit as good as its home console counterparts.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

For your first question about what kind of non-creation teams there are: Game dev studios typically have internal support teams - back end, build, IT, user research, etc. that are primarily there to support game development and content creation efforts.

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Starloop Studios

AUGUST 29, 2023

With AAA console game developers focusing on ensuring their games are more immersive than ever, intersecting gameplay and narrative has never been more crucial. Though the vast majority of games have a story, very few of them allow for meaningful gameplay and story integration.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Narrative design has always been an important part of video game development, but its significance in modern-day games continues to grow as narrative elements play an important role in player engagement and retention. Several exploration games also incorporate similar story designs. The core gameplay in Gossip Harbor.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Similarly, in a game development setup, various virtual reality tools have become easily accessible to both creators and consumers to create and encounter immersive experiences. 10 Popular VR Game Development Tools There are a range of tools and frameworks that are being used for VR game development projects.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Chaosmonger Studios , based in Tallinn, Estonia, is a multimedia production company specializing in everything from documentaries, science fiction films and animations to music video, graphic design and video games. His latest game Three Minutes to Eight is a real tour de force, both in storytelling and visual flair.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

AAA games like Assassin's Creed Mirage and the remake of Resident Evil 4 will soon be available to play on iPhone 15 Pro. Announced during Apple's Wonderlust Event , a new A17 Pro chip has enabled support for games previously only available on console and PC. Read more

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Game creators today, release a large number of video games based on the taste and budget of their customers. Some of these games are not as famous as their creators and publishers would like, while others are increasing in fame and sales. Now, when you think about high-end games, you think about AAA.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 6, 2023

First shown off on stage at Apple's September launch event for the iPhone 15, the game offers graphical fidelity that's pretty much indistinguishable, at least to the layman's eye, from the experience of playing on a PlayStation 5. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 6, 2023

At a glance The UK games market posted strong sales in February due to the performance of two products: Hogwarts Legacy and PlayStation 5. million console and PC games were sold across the UK during February, up 11% over the year before. Read more

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 17, 2024

Any company that wants to release a premium game console basically needs to make an enormous investment that will probably not pay off for years. First, the company must develop gaming hardware. Beyond this, they likely need to develop their own flagship game (or more) to launch with the console.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 21, 2023

million console and PC games were sold in July across Europe, up 34% over the same period in 2022. This is according to GSD data, which includes digital sales from most AAA games publishers in every European country. It also includes physical sales of games in the big European markets. million (up 0.2%).

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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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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 24, 2023

Xbox's Phil Spencer has once again said that mobile is the key to growing both Microsoft's games business and the industry overall – and that includes bringing AAA titles like Starfield to smart devices. Read more

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 26, 2024

Written by Adam Telfer , our razor-sharp Canadian co-host who doesn’t just play games—Adam both builds and dissects them. As a badass product leader, Adam cuts through the noise with no-nonsense insights into what makes games tick and why some crash and burn. Survive till 2025" seems to be the gaming industry's new mantra.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This week, in the latest round of noise around Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the company announced it was committing to releasing Call of Duty on Nintendo consoles for ten years. To make a AAA Call of Duty for Switch (which I assume is the suggestion) will take years. The internet loved that, of course. A new Switch?

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Starloop Studios

MAY 4, 2023

With every new console generation comes the anticipation of next-gen games and the experiences they can bring to players. The arrival of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S was met with similar excitement and curiosity as to what the new console generation would bring. At Magic Media, we are well-versed in [.]

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 30, 2023

The impact the game had on the people who played it, the emotional reaction that game created to almost console people who had lost love ones… By playing the game, you can reflect on the people you loved, their life and death." It wasn't just best indie game, but the best game of the year. Read more

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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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Starloop Studios

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The game development pipeline is a lengthy process. In our experience working on everything from AAA titles to smaller-scale projects, a common thread are the stages of game development.

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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. You should start thinking of your LiveOps strategy from the moment you start developing your game.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 24, 2023

The Invincible is the debut game of Starward Industries , a new studio based in Kraków, Poland. For the last couple of years the team has been working hard to transform the gripping story from the novel with the same name by Polish sci-fi author Stanislaw Lem, into a thrilling adventure game. “We

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AWS Games

AUGUST 13, 2024

Introduction : The importance of selecting a proper game backend Selecting a game backend solution is one of the most significant decisions that game studios face during development. Harmony Games, a mobile game studio founded in 2023, considered two possible paths for solving the backend problem.

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Game Development News

MARCH 28, 2023

Playground Games’ founder and former studio head Gavin Raeburn has announced that he has set up a new game development studio

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2023

It’s mostly because mobile devices became the platform du jour to publish movie tie-in games and other similar shovelware-style titles. In addition to the rise of mobile, the relationship between a movie tie-in console game’s development cycle and the movie itself was already fraying in the mid to late 2000s.

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Moonmana

JULY 25, 2022

Video games industry is going big and bigger. What are the fresh trends in the gaming industry? The last few years have been motivating the game development field quite actively. Game developers, designers, and artists had to be quite inventive and creative to move it forward. Cross-platform Video Game Development Trends.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But one thing that hasn’t changed is new hit games entering the market. So to end the year on a high, we rounded up our top 22 games to hit the charts this year. Here are the top games we loved playing this year. If you want some inspiration for games to binge over the holiday period, look no further. Net Fishing!

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

And if you’re really hungry for insights, I nvest Game offers exclusive access via Patreon. A couple of months ago, our friends at Invest Game set out to look for the advantages ex-Riot employees have when securing investments. Finally, we concentrated exclusively on the gaming industry. over 38 rounds during the same period.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The advent of handheld gaming consoles marked a significant era in the gaming industry. This bubble of time, between the early 2000s and mid-2010s, witnessed the rise of several iconic handheld consoles, including the Sony PSP, and various iterations of Nintendo’s DS line, such as the Nintendo DS, 3DS, and 2DS.

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Game Errors

MARCH 16, 2023

Are games not launching on your Steam deck console? Unlike other small-sized gaming consoles, Steam Deck is a very powerful one and capable of running most modern AAA titles. But, for some users, small to bigger, any games may not run on this device. Why won’t my games run on Steam Deck?

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

They say imitation is a form of flattery, and there’s no shortage of mobile games that share a striking similarity with other popular titles in the PC, console and mobile markets. So, considering how successful it’s been (and still is), why hasn’t its publisher, Mediatonic, released the game on mobile devices?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

In recent years, the gaming industry has undergone significant transformations, grappling with challenges that have reshaped its trajectory and forced key players to adapt rapidly. For the past two years, the game industry at large is not seeing growth. The current compound annual growth rate of the gaming industry is just above 1%.

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