Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The team experimented with everything from esport to UGC and even went as far as removing gacha - only to put it back in. The annual letter defends the decision to forgo soft launch, points to positive beta results, the $100M of gross revenue, and Apple/Google backing. And it wasnt a lack of trying.

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Game Development News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Bandai Namco are holding a Closed Beta Test for Tekken 8 this October - MCV/DEVELOP

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As Riot charts the company’s path forward and continues to explore new ways to serve players, including TV shows, music and esports broadcasts, Rich encourages his team to adopt a cloud-first mindset. When people run into limits, their first instinct used to be ‘I can do it better.’ But VALORANT was the big test.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Magic is trying to establish itself as a premier esport, so we can look to Twitch to gauge Magic’s success in that arena: From sullygnome.com, daily average viewers for Hearthstone and MTG on Twitch. And, since Magic’s not on mobile, AppAnnie can’t see into their revenues.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

With AWS, the #1 cloud service in the world, and Twitch, the #1 video game streaming platform, Amazon’s product strategy is naturally centered around 1) network heavy MMOs and 2) social first, streaming first eSports games. With a strategy like this, no wonder Amazon has such a strong preference for MMORPGs.

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Game Errors

JUNE 6, 2023

Here are some interesting stats and graphs about these events: The total number of tournaments: According to the Esports Charts, both Apex and Fortnite had many official and unofficial tournaments. Source of information: Esports Chart’s Apex Legends and Fortnite page. Some of these events are official. Fortnite is ahead.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

At DoF, we’ve been playing Marvel Snap since the closed beta in preparation for this article. That said, on the available data there are no signs of such content exhaustion, but the game hasn’t been running for long yet…) Because of the high degree of randomness, it is unlikely to foster a truly competitive or eSports scene.

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