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Riot vets at Treehouse on leaving competitive behind for co-op

GamesIndustry.biz

Since then, we've seen the advent and decline of the metaverse, with major companies chasing that dream as a driver of future growth for a while before shifting the marketing message to Generative AI as the next big thing.

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The Future of Gaming: Engaging Gen Z

Deconstructor of Fun

The best strategies now tap into social connections with features like: Friend suggestions and group invites Competitive challenges Social leaderboards Co-op gameplay and team-based experiences The Multi-Platform Reality Gen Z plays everywhere. The AI Question: What Does Gen Z Think? Refine Monetization: No disruptive ads.

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Mobile Publishing #2: Behind Tilting Point's $132M War Chest

Deconstructor of Fun

In case you missed the previous episode: Mobile Publishing #1: Deconstructing Scopely's path to $1B with Scopely’s Javier Ferreira (Co-CEO) To make sure you don’t miss on all of the ?content Then, if there’s mutual interest on both sides, we look to deepen relationships through new projects, such as co-development.

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the curse of cooperation

Interesting Choices

People are starting to warm up to it, though, and recent years have seen a surge of cooperative board games, as well as digital games like Starcraft 2 and League of Legends that are embracing co-op vs AI as a valid way to experience the game.

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Istanbul Gaming Summit 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

Panel: Recession vs game industry Host: Laura Taranto, Senior Director of Product, Big Fish Chris Petrovic, CBO and Board Member, FunPlus Dara Leung , Managing Director, The Raine Group Micha Katz , Managing Director, Aream & Co. Clans, chat, friends, trading and guild adoption should be surfaced early in this phase.

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Chet Faliszek about his indie debut The Anacrusis “I hope we pull off a miracle”

PreMortem.Games

Co-founder Chet Faliszek , known for Left 4 Dead and Portal 2’s co-op campaign during his tenure at Valve, feels optimistic about the success of the game. Retro-futuristic sci-fi world Founded by Chet Faliszek and Dr. Kimberly Voll in 2019, Stray Bombay’s set out to build better co-operative games.

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Design review of Redfall by Arkane Studios Austin

Radiator Blog

I completed the main campaign in Redfall ( official site, Steam , also on Game Pass), a 4 player co-op open world shooter by Arkane Austin, who's mostly known for detailed single player story-filled action games. There's no Destiny-like seamless matchmaking and no Left 4 Dead style good-enough bot AI.

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