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How Mobile Game Developers Are Using Anime to Boost Engagement and Revenue Across the Globe

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Some titles, such as Umamusume: Pretty Derby, have taken things one step further by taking a multimedia approach, with mobile games, anime, and manga series all coexisting and building an ever-expanding universe. You see, many anime-based games attempt to retell the same story from the series they are based on.

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Unity Games That Last: How Testing, Art, and LiveOps Drive Revenue and Retention 

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The global gaming industry is booming and yet, most Unity-based titles fail to sustain player attention or generate long-term value. This article explores how strategic QA, high-performing 3D art pipelines, and LiveOps frameworks separate lasting titles from forgettable ones. Because success isnt defined by shipping a playable build.

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Ubisoft's Fawzi Mesmar on the art of generating original ideas, as well as optimising your own creativity

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How many people came up with the idea to launch a Squid Game video game after the Korean TV show broke Netflix records in 2021? The answer, with one glance at the cursed depths of mobile game stores, was plenty. Read more

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IP Should Be the Next Big Thing in Mobile Gaming

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I was recently playing a mobile game. Based on a long tradition in mobile gaming, the companies get inspiration and borrow mechanics from each other to the point when the original creator becomes hard to trace. Mobile game developers face rising production and UA costs and a lack of financing. board game.

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

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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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Why Survival Kids on Switch 2 is Unity's only in-house game (for now)

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" It's why he's glad the studio made what he called a "larger" game—not a platformer or mobile game Unity is more broadly used for. "I think that replication of our customers' day-to-day, and how they operate their businesses, was important as well."

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AWS to showcase tools for breakthrough gaming experiences at GDC 2025

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Green Light: Unleashing Squid Game on Amazon GameLift 11:30am to 12:00pm | Room WH2011 With the release of Squid Game Season 2, Netflix created a companion game that takes place in the universe and allows players to play in games inspired by the show.

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