Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

With increased competition from IDFA regulation changes and new games consistently entering the market, two of the biggest challenges facing publishers and mobile game studios are acquiring new players (UA) and keeping those players in your game (player retention).

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2023

Written by Tiffany Keller , who is a Director of Product and investor with a decade of experience in mobile games across Scopely, Activision Blizzard, Miniclip, and Zynga. Can slow-rolling UGC pack the punch Mediatonic needs to defend the knockout genre on the console before mobile competitors eat their lunch?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In the second edition of The Alumni Effect, we’re focusing on another industry powerhouse: Activision Blizzard, which also includes the mobile gaming giant King. Out of the 28 companies that raised funding: — 17 making PC&сonsole games, of which six are also developing for mobile platforms. — million downloads collectively.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 22, 2023

These emerging players are at the forefront of consuming game-related content alongside their active involvement, emphasizing the growing trend of watching gaming-related media alongside playing. Console gaming has the highest players-to-payers conversion, mobile gaming has the lowest.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 6, 2024

It’s likely you’ve seen these playable ads on social media or mobile news feeds - they often resemble mini-games or animations that users can play around with or view. They are typically found on mobile devices as part of a larger app or within mobile web browsers. Are Playable Ads Working?

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 30, 2023

Immersive storytelling Kiro’o Games intends to launch the mobile game version of Caloo Hunters while continuing to expand the Kori-Odan Saga with new comic books over the next 10 years. It led him to realise that Kiro’o Games was not just about entertainment anymore. It was also an inspiring force.

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The mobile game industry is the most demanding industry for the past few years. Though there are millions and millions of mobile game apps available on the Play/App Store, the game companies and developers are interested in building more and more games. There are several factors associated with the success of a mobile game app. .

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Most people play on their mobile phone (68%), followed by console (58%) and PC (48%). Games lag well behind other forms of entertainment though, on average Europeans spend 14 hours per week on social media and a whopping 24 hours on tv. In fact 76% of all gamers are older than 18 years, averaging out in 32 years.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 21, 2023

In addition to the series of articles about hypercasual games and the social media trends that inspire them, AppMagic talked to AZUR Games and FreePlay, both developer and publisher in the mobile- and hypercasual games market. How do you track mobile market trends? This data can be easily tracked using Google Trends.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Wild Kingdoms (Itan Orisha) by Kucheza Gaming She compared her childhood to her sons’, noting the significant changes in media consumption and behaviour due to technological advancements. She highlighted the shift from scheduled TV programs where TV was on between 4 pm and 10 pm when she was a child to on-demand content today.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The mobile games market is dominated by a few titles that players return to again and again. A new report from Mistplay – a mobile gaming loyalty program, and consultancy – offers stats and tips for developers looking to increase the amount of time and money players spend with their games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

billion (+77% YoY) EBITDA: 876 million (+78% YoY) Monthly Active Users: 300 million, the highest since 2014 This is a massive turnaround from 2023 when Supercell fell out of the top 10 mobile publishers. SuperRiot would be one of the largest and bmost eloved interactive media companies in the world should it go public.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

This adds parity with Ogg Vorbis audio tracks, and will be a welcome addition for users who want to load user-generated content at runtime (including non-game audio applications). This release brings the same performance benefits to the other backends by implementing batching when using the Forward+ and Mobile backends ( GH-92797 ).

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With the technology and tools we’re developing alongside our partners, we want to foster a community for our namesake game that is able to create their own content and benefit from it, and immerse themselves in content that others have made and shared.” ” Core to Avalon will be player-created content.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Macharia is currently a lecturer at one of the highly esteemed institutions in Kenya the African Digital Media Institute (ADMI). Later on, he collaborated with local media houses to publish Wana Savana comic strips. Teaching game development In 2020, Macharia created a YouTube channel where he posts video game-related content.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 24, 2024

The mobile market continues to evolve rapidly, driven by shifting user behaviors, technological advancements, and emerging economic trends. This blog post delves into those insights to provide a comprehensive overview of the mobile landscape. 2023 was a challenging year for the mobile gaming market.

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Logic Simplified

JUNE 19, 2024

A Content Management System helps users create, manage, and modify digital properties like apps and websites. That's where an ecommerce content management system comes in. Content Management Systems come equipped with features that can help you create an ecommerce website that is optimized for SEO.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2025

Eight demo stations, staffed by AWS experts, highlighted services and solutions for cloud game development, game content creation, backend and infrastructure, and player acquisition, engagement, and monetization. Additionally, booth visitors experienced AWS for Games technologies across the game development lifecycle.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 8, 2024

Now it’s an independent studio of 30 developers, animators, storytellers and artists. “We started referencing the India around us rather than the image of it in collective media and that re-training was quite a challenge.” Detective Dotson is expected later this year for PC, consoles and mobile.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 12, 2024

Source : AppMySite ) WordPress is a monolithic content management system that strengthens millions of websites. They come with customizable templates, user-friendly tools, pre-built designs, animation effects, and content resizing and repositioning features. Around 1/3rd (33.72%) of the top 1 million sites in the world use WordPress.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 7, 2018

You can only post photos and you must use a mobile device. It’s the easiest social media site when it comes to passively pulling people to your page. Instagram is the last major social media network on which you can reliably break 1,000 followers within three months. Instagram is very particular about how you can use it.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 26, 2024

Content stays king. Mobile gaming continues to dominate this category, accounting for $109.6 They are looking to leverage their IP across various media to create interconnected experiences and maximize revenue potential. Some highlights from the report: The global market for interactive entertainment is on course to reach $250.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2025

release a little over a month ago, one mightve expected content updates to trickle out slowly for our initial 4.5 In GH-99551 , rendering expert DarioSamo has implemented support for the Fragment Density Map extension, making the Vulkan Mobile renderer more viable for VR on standalone headsets. With the 4.4 development snapshots.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 24, 2025

Written by Marion Balinoff , an influencer marketing consultant with over a decade of experience, including six years in mobile gaming. The content format allows the inclusion of tracking links at multiple touchpoints to maximise tracked traffic and it is generally better at driving long-term impact as it doesnt depend on instant virality.

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Game Development News

JANUARY 28, 2025

This is a press release posted in addition to our usual editorial content. Momentum for 2025s biggest UK event for video games continues to build – with speakers and side events added to the London Games Festival schedule as tickets officially go on sale.

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Game Development News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Xsolla, a global video game commerce company, shares insights that 40 of the top 100 mobile games have launched their Web Shop using Xsolla's solution

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2024

” “As evident from everyone’s fixation on social media for years, content that humans instinctively find interesting continues to emerge infinitely. We can take inspiration from content going viral on platforms like TikTok and YouTube, and indeed, we have created hit games in 2023 by doing so. .”

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Filmustage

JULY 14, 2023

The film promotion today encompasses innovative movie trailers, engaging social media marketing, and intricate SEO for films. Image source: IMDb.com Influence of Social Media and SEO in film promotion In the realm of film marketing, social media has emerged as a powerful tool to connect with audiences on a personal level.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 24, 2020

Share that address anywhere you need to such as your social media or your website. On the right side, click on the Design button – you’ll see items including Page, Header, Body, Footer, Mobile Styles, and Monkey Rewards. Once you get all your content items in the right locations, click on each one on the left.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Eric is a media strategist, quantitative marketer, and author who has spent his career working for transformative consumer technology and media companies. Eric is the author of the book Freemium Economics and the founder of Mobile Dev Memo , the ultimate growth blog and podcast. Access all of our previous predictions.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

February As part of our social media expansion, we also created an official Godot Engine account on the streaming platform Twitch. The PvP auto-battler with a medieval fantasy theme has quickly gained popularity with content creators! Backpack Battles Backpack Battles decided to make inventory management the main game mechanic.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 26, 2023

One HaZ has shared his insights on the exciting developments happening within the Unreal Engine Fortnite (UEFN) platform and its potentially transformative impact on the future of gaming and content creation. “The w hole thing Fortnite has been well known for is its players can create stuff, user-generated content,” he explained.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 26, 2021

Written by Ethan Levy , who is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Scale Platform. So it's very clear that games are just a new type of media included in your Netflix subscription. Netflix games will start on mobile. They will not be limited to mobile, however. Clearly, it's very mature.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 23, 2020

After that, social mobility is possible, but difficult and this is true no matter where you go. I got a ton of email signups, got a bunch of social media attention, and ever since the creation of that post, the amount of pageviews went up permanently and never dropped. Random things happen. Family members get sick or injured.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2020

As commentary, I wrote: “Yes, Tencent already owns the biggest MOBA franchises on PC (League of Legends) and mobile (Honor of Kings). Yes, Tencent/Riot are still planning on launching [LoL: Wild Rift] on both mobile and console. As a bonus, mobile battle royale history will also be covered.)

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 4, 2024

The bloodletting will continue Sony is also in the midst of a transition to become a media empire. In addition, Sony is aiming to extend the current hardware cycle with the surprisingly popular PlayStation Portal, a handheld device that allows you to stream directly from your PlayStation console from anywhere.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 14, 2025

How is an education app rivaling the popularity of media & entertainment products? This is particularly true for mobile-first products. Its no coincidence that their engagement model and business model both resemble mobile F2P so closely. A Strong Why also lets you introduce other features that will resonate (e.g.

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