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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 State of the Mobile Games Market in 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

State of the Mobile Games Market The Western mobile games market , which we broadly analyze by removing the Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean markets from the numbers, saw overall installs climb by 14% to 47.5B A game that really fell during 2022 losing nearly half of its revenues in the process.

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Analysis • Unity’s decision to raise its prices should not come as a surprise

PreMortem.Games

Even as creatives in other entertainment industries continue to fight to make fair wages, a new front has opened in gaming as developers figure out what to do about Unity’s new fee structure. Based on the number of users installing a game, the platform will trigger a fee depending on specific revenue and installation thresholds.

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Supercell’s Strategic Initiatives that Will Transform the Company

Deconstructor of Fun

In February, Ilkka Paananen, the beloved CEO of Supercell, and arguably one of the faces on the Mount Rushmore of Mobile Games Executives, published his yearly blog post. All in all, Ilkka’s yearly blog is an inspirational and quite sincere vision of the top brass of a major mobile games company. Quite the contrary.

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Tower Pop seeks to reinvent tower defense

Game Daily

Last month , Finnish game developer and publisher Tower Pop announced a $2.1 million investment for its upcoming Web3 game Omega Royale. How does the tower defense (TD) genre – generally associated with casual, mobile gaming – fit into the Web3 world? Let’s take a look.

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The Hybridcasual Gamble

Deconstructor of Fun

We dive into decline of hypercasual games and hybridcasual, an attempt by mobile game developers to adapt to the new normal in the industry. The space is now awash with a variety of publishers, including the aforementioned SayGames, Kwalee and Homa, as well as Rollic (also acquired by Zynga), Popcore and Good Job Games.

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2020 Predictions #8: What do the Kardashians and Casino Publishers Have in Common… CA$H!

Deconstructor of Fun

This is showcased in the downward trending right-side graph, where we use the “average number of games Playtika’s key slots titles are being advertised in” as a proxy for UA spend. Also, a Revenue by Strategic Segment graph showcasing a 41% contribution to overall revenues through their mobile gaming portfolio (“Digital”).

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