Game Daily

AUGUST 23, 2023

Opening night at Gamescom – the annual convention held in Cologne, Germany – is usually the starting point for gaming’s busiest time of the year. As we barrel towards the Northern fall, trailers and release dates herald incoming games, big and small.

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Game Daily

APRIL 28, 2023

Short games are ubiquitous in the realms of PC and browser gaming, often getting lost in the blizzard of products available. But it doesn’t have to be so, at least according to Paulo Luis Santos, founder and head of Brazil-based Flux Games , which is touting a new label called Short N Sweet.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

They say imitation is a form of flattery, and there’s no shortage of mobile games that share a striking similarity with other popular titles in the PC, console and mobile markets. And that’s exactly the case with the chart toppers Stumble Guys and Eggy Party, two mobile clones of the 60-player knock-out party game, Fall Guys.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 23, 2020

I believe that the deprecation of the IDFA will catalyze a period of accelerated consolidation in the mobile gaming space via M&A. Smaller, single-game mobile gaming studios will see their growth trajectory obstructed completely and suddenly. The valuations of these companies will drop rapidly.

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Interesting Choices

AUGUST 17, 2011

Cooperative multiplayer is an oft-underused method of allowing people to play games together in a more accessible and casual manner. Not to say that those games aren't well designed and enjoyable overall. Of course, many games have also managed to solve this problem, either intentionally or as a side effect of another mechanic.

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A really good, polished game that tries something different? My family just finished playing the hit co-op game It Takes Two. I played it with my wife, and our teenager who was on hand to help us out when the game got too hard. Also, since I wrote this, it won Game of the Year from a popular infomercial.)

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Last week in Istanbul, Google and Deconstructor of Fun brought together a thousand-strong group of high-level mobile game execs to talk about the future of the business. His data and insights were based on US data as a proxy for the western market, and focused on platform privacy, or the “Apple global mobile game recession”.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

TWIG 220 The problem with Kotaku and why Xbox Game Pass is the doom Missed a previous newsletter? The Real Danger of the Microsoft's Activision Deal & 2023 Predictions for Blockchain Games. These efforts were hampered by what it identified as increased market competition, particularly in the puzzle genre.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Sports genre grew with nearly every sub-genre up, except Realistic Racing (CSR2 declined 11% and no new games scaled up). Racing Games Mario Kart lifted the whole Arcade Racing sub-genre to a massive +520% YoY growth, while Realistic Racing saw it’s fortunes dwindle (-10% YoY) compared to last year.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Almost 2 years ago, the entire games industry was amazed by the announcement of a gigantic $55M seed round raised by Spyke Games. Many successful game company founders would jump on the chance to exit with $55 million, let alone receiving it as seed investment. Spyke Games is playing it safe and getting results.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you really wanna go nuts, try to define what a “game” is. I mean, Hidden Object Games barely even count as an activity. And yet, we know they are games, because they have “game” in the name. things about making and writing about games for 30 years is the patterns you get to see.

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