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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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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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Out of the 28 companies that raised funding: — 17 making PC&сonsole games, of which six are also developing for mobile platforms. — 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.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 11, 2024

PC games grew driven by dominating live service franchises and a slew of innovative AA titles. Please listen to the full conversation with Newzoo’s Lead Analayst Tom Wijman about the state of the PC and Console market on YouTube, Spotify , or Apple Podcast. The inflation in EU and US is above 3% today.

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Moonmana

JULY 25, 2022

Video games development incorporates PC games and consoles. Game developers have to be more flexible and agile than ever before to develop games and provide Games as a Service (GaaS) for pc and varieties of consoles. AAA video game development trends. Forbes also argues that some of AAAs are integrating NFTs therein.

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Nvidia

MARCH 25, 2021

Evgeny Makarov, Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA Jakub Knapik, Art Director at CDPR Our Sniper Elite 4 Journey – Lessons in Porting AAA Action Games to the Nintendo Switch The Asura engine, entirely developed in-house by Rebellion, has allowed the independent developer/publisher the maximum creative and technical freedom.

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Game Errors

MAY 15, 2023

Smith Camp is a network-related error in Modern Warfare 2 due to an outage of Activision online services, issues with network devices, temporary problems on your PC, corrupted game files, outdated network drivers, or faulty cache files. Restart your PC : A quick restart can solve many temporary network-related issues. Restart your PC.

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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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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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Game Errors

APRIL 18, 2023

If the screen goes black while playing video games on your PC, you can take some effective steps to solve this problem. Any low-end or high-end AAA game may go through this problem on your Windows 11 or 10 computer. First, ensure that your PC has the minimum specifications required by the problematic games. Restart your PC.

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Her writing credits include 1999 Independent Games Festival winner Terminus and the PC RPG of the Year, The Witcher, for which she was nominated for a 2007 Writers Guild Award in Videogame Writing.

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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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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

Her writing credits include 1999 Independent Games Festival winner Terminus and the PC RPG of the Year, The Witcher, for which she was nominated for a 2007 Writers Guild Award in Videogame Writing.

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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. Firebase), etc.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Some had worked on AAA games I’d played, released indie games, or previously ran companies in games. We’d plug 8 controllers into my PC and have such a laugh playing all night. Another really important one for me is avoiding clickbait game dev content and news.

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Game Errors

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Indie games like Wizard with a Gun often face more crash issues compared to AAA titles. Table of contents: Why is Wizard with a Gun Crashing? Check the Game’s System Requirements I double-checked if my PC met the minimum system requirements for Wizard with a Gun. How to stop Wizard with a Gun from crashing?

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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

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. Summarizing: a professional well experienced with PC, with first-hand experience leading a team/company.

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Moonmana

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The team creates games of various genres and platforms, including iOS, Android, PC (Steam), XBOX, Playstation, and Nintendo. We are excited to be a part of creating AAA games that are the best in their class. Working as a Content Writer at GoodFirms, Anna Stark bridges the gap between service seekers and service providers.

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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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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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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

It’s tricky taking any game from PC and Console to mobile. They removed all of the F2P monetization, polished some of the features, and released a new batch of content for season 4. It’s obviously simplified (they only released 10 legends on mobile, compared to the 20+ on console and PC). out of 10 in no time.

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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

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

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

Most of the games on blockchain run either on browser or PC. 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. to $184.4B

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

Xsolla has dedicated tools that will help you create your own online commerce platform, improve your performance marketing and discoverability, and expand your game business on mobile and PC. A true masterpiece of an ad rivaling launch trailers from AAA games. Check out Xsolla’s solutions for more information. Product Evolution.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

Eric Seufert explains the concept of content fortresses here. the surprise announcement of Counterstrike 2, CCP's massive raise for a AAA Web3 game and more. For the entire mobile games industry, revenue was down for the first time ever in 2022. And most surprisingly, vests! Kress hates vests y'all! Gaming Roundup ???????

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Moving into work-from-home setups, especially for the console’s many massive AAA titles, further hamstrung the majority of the studios. As console publishers are looking to keep up their growth by expanding into transmedia, PC, and mobile, they are also executing three arguably mutually exclusive strategies within their core console business.

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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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