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Minigames Revisited: How Developers Are Continuing to Tap into Trends and Drive Engagement

Game Refinery

With IDFA regulation changes and an influx of new games entering the market, publishers and mobile game studios are facing an ever-uphill battle to acquire new players (UA) and retain them. However, as we wrote last year , many top-grossing mobile games have found that minigames are the best way to boost UA and player retention.

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2025 Mobile Games Marketing Predictions

Deconstructor of Fun

. >> see our gaming market predictions As we enter 2025, the digital advertising and mobile gaming industries are transforming remarkably. As always, there are winners and losers, and within mobile gaming, certain genres stand out as clear frontrunners. Poolday.ai

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‘Doki Doki AI Interrogation’-developer YAMADA explores the role of AI in games

PreMortem.Games

Japanese indie game developer Yamada has used ChatGPT as a key design element for his latest project, Doki Doki AI Interrogation. He had to set up strict boundaries and even make the AI powered character ‘drunk and forgetful’ to pull it off, but, according to the developer, the experience has moved players to tears.

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Checkmate: Discussing the Rise of Chess Games on Mobile

Game Refinery

More importantly, it showed audiences worldwide that this 1400-year-old board game can be glamorous, resulting in over 3.2 million people signing up to the browser-turned-mobile game Chess.com and a 603% leap in chess book sales in the US; it now even has an exclusive game on Netflix.

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Pixel Federation goes all-in on AWS with help from Labyrinth Labs

AWS Games

Mobile game developer and publisher Pixel Federation entertains more than 140M players worldwide with popular mobile games, including ‘ Diggy’s Adventure ,’ ‘ Trainstation 2 ,’ ‘ Puzzle Adventure ,’ and ‘ Port City.’

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Empires & Puzzles - From a Failing Company to a $700M Acquisition in a Year

Deconstructor of Fun

This was the date that the social games giant had acquired a relatively unknown Finnish developer, Small Giant. The reason for this acquisition was the success of Small Giant’s hit game, Empires & Puzzles. Since mid 2017, Empires & Puzzles has raked in $260M in net revenues with only 34M installs. Wooga GmbH.

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New AWS Survey Finds Cloud Solutions Are Top Of Mind for Game Developers in 2023

AWS Games

The responses represent a diverse set of developers – they work for small studios with less than 20 people (58%), medium studios of up to 150 people (26%), and large studios of over 150 people (16%) that develop games across 22 genres including action (33%), role playing (30%), and puzzle (22%). AWS for Games Solutions.