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Bukola Akingbade of Kucheza Gaming on nurturing dreams and shaping industries

PreMortem.Games

Her Nigerian-based studio aims to use the power of video games to engage and get future generations ready to pursue careers in gaming. So far she has facilitated the awards of esports athletes between the ages of 8 and 18 with rewards such as dedicated gaming laptops and Amazon vouchers.

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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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Aldora market forecast 2025: Game Industry is slowly moving upward

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Mobile gaming continues to dominate this category, accounting for $109.6 Blockchain gaming, while growing at 21% year-over-year in 2024 as a result of the appreciation in major crypto-currencies remains a niche market at $651 million. And Web-based gaming is reinvigorated, growing +5.8% year-over-year. Content stays king.

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AWS gears up for action-packed Gamescom and Devcom 2024

AWS Games

AWS is participating in a range of Devcom-related activities inside and outside the Confex Exhibitor Hall, such as: Live product demonstrations Visitors to the AWS booth (E2) can check out real-time demos of game industry-specific AWS technology led by industry experts and technology partners.

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Analysis • Saudi Arabia spends big on gaming with acquisition of Scopely

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Top image: Marvel Strike Force by Scopely This week Savvy Games Group , a subsidiary of the Saudi Arabian government’s Public Investments Fund, announced that it agreed to purchase Scopely , a privately held mobile game publisher, for $4.9 The current transaction is a clear indication that is also building a content catalog.

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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. Having a service mindset.

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2023: Year in Retrospect for the Gaming Industry

iXie gaming

Since multi-platform players generally spend more money and time on video games and associated purchases, they generate more revenue for the industry. Increase in Top-Rated Games As technology grows, new innovations transform how developers build games. Generally, this results in better games and gameplay experiences.