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Zenless Zone Zero, NTE and the new wave of Chinese games pushing the limits of free-to-play | Opinion

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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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Resident Evil Village on iOS makes cases both for and against cloud streaming | Opinion

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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.

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The Rise of Hybridization in Mobile Games: How Developers are Genre Mashing Their Way to Success

Game Refinery

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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The top 22 mobile games of 2022

Game Analytics

Aside from a little text explaining what you’re doing, you learn everything by exploring the game. We don’t see this often enough in casual simulation games, but there is a lovely open-world feel to this game. What we especially love is Rovio decided to make this an affordable premium game, rather than F2P.

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5 Tactics for the Volatile PC/Console Market

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This evolving landscape presents opportunities for agile developers to thrive, even as AAA studios grapple with extended development cycles and rising costs. 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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AWS for Games debuts Guide to Generative AI for Game Developers, and more at GDC 2024

AWS Games

AWS Session Highlights Harnessing generative AI to create unlimited content within game worlds : Saltwater Games details the generative AI architecture of “Resurgence,” an upcoming free-to-play, post-apocalyptic, open-world crafting and survival game. Building and scaling MONOPOLY GO!,

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2022 Predictions #2 How to win after Fortnite's and Why Going Cross-Platform is Mandatory for Mid-Core Games

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An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. This is because we don’t want to reduce the actionability of the data with games that succeed massively in what can be described as closed domestic markets. A true masterpiece of an ad rivaling launch trailers from AAA games. Well played, Lilith….