PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 26, 2024

growth), while PC gaming shows the strongest growth at 4.2%, reaching $31.4 However, this downturn is partially offset by the resilience in the gaming PC and laptop market. billion in 2025E Esports & Live-Streaming face ongoing monetization challenges. Mobile gaming continues to dominate this category, accounting for $109.6

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Game Errors

APRIL 5, 2023

In 2017, developers invested $30 billion to advance the sector. Hefty Investments Earlier, we mentioned that developers and publishers invest billions of dollars to advance multiplayer gaming each year. This money is spent on research, acquiring human resources, developing and marketing games that can dominate the industry.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 19, 2024

This implies that players switch between mobile, PC, and console. But what does this mean for developers? Well, this implies that developers have had to work more on cross-platform games, ensuring they deliver seamless cross-platform experiences. As of 2022, the eSports market was about USD 1.38

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Game Development News

APRIL 3, 2023

Brian Ward, CEO of Savvy Games Group, tells Vince Pavey about its mission to drive the growth and development of the games industry in Saudi Arabia and beyond

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Game Design Aspect

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

I'm thrilled to be shortlisted for one of the 2020 Women in Games Hall of Fame Awards and I am particularly excited that I can spotlight learning games and serious game development within the global game industry. Sande Chen is a writer and game designer with over 15 years of experience in the game industry.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

Just like in the years prior, the blog post travels at lightspeed across the mobile gaming industry, achieving two distinctive outcomes: EXCITEMENT: Ilkka’s annual blog posts excite game developers everywhere. Ilkka’s words often portray Supercell’s game development model as straightforward and simple to carry out.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 21, 2023

Digital Development Management’s newly released report on financial activity in the video gaming sector is a mixed bag, showing a decline in mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, and investments in the second quarter of this year, but noting that the market is likely to heat up in the months ahead. Investments DDM counted $0.7

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Game Development News

JUNE 12, 2023

Dan Ahern, QA lead at Radical Forge talks about social mobility in the games industry - MCV/DEVELOP

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Game Daily

AUGUST 22, 2023

Web3 game developers and publishers are often pretty bad about explaining their products to potential players. Wreck League is also being tooled for esports, with players able to build partnerships and teams, familiar to anyone who has attended or watched a fighting game tournament. You can find out more here.

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Game Errors

JUNE 6, 2023

Here are the system requirements for Apex Legends: Processor: Core i3 6th Gen/AMD FX-4350 or Better RAM: 6GB Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640/Radeon HD 7730 Disk Space: 22 GB+ Operating System: Windows 7 or higher After knowing the required specifications, you can see that a PC with basic hardware can run Apex Legends without any problem.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Neither Yu-Gi-Oh nor Hearthstone focus on North America - Hearthstone is disproportionately focused on China, and Yu-Gi-Oh is even more focused on Japan - but it is notable for Western developers that a Japanese game and art style has snuck up on the American audience. Both Yu-Gi-Oh and Hearthstone generate roughly the same revenues annually.

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Game Development News

JUNE 6, 2023

The Independent Game Developers' Association has called for the UK Government to expand the list of jobs on the Shortage Occupation List - MCV/DEVELOP

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Game Development News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Tandem Events is now open to speaker submissions for Develop:Brighton 2024

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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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Game Development News

JUNE 12, 2023

Tickets are now on sale for EGX 2023, and there's a discount on prices until later this month - MCV/DEVELOP

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2020

This prediction is written by Giovanni Ducati, who is a Director of Product Management at Scopely and who previously led strategy and finance for Hearthstone and as well as Esports at Activision Blizzard. It all started with “ Dota Auto Chess ”, developed in January ’19 by Drodo Studio as a mod for Dota 2. What should be the path?

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

We dive into decline of hypercasual games and hybridcasual, an attempt by mobile game developers to adapt to the new normal in the industry. Based on the current marketing environment, we made the decision to temporarily suspend our new game development pipeline until the ROI for new games is economically viable.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. But please keep in mind that Hearthstone is cross-platform title making likely over 80% of its revenue on PC. Until one of the developers takes a page out of interactive narrative games, this genre will remain but a niche in the Western markets.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

to assist content creators using AI-based animation Nexon revenues jump 28% year-over-year Roblox revenue up 2% as quarterly losses hit $300 million Web3-based MMO develope r wins $10m in new capital Bandai Namco H1 sales rise above expectations Unity Q3 revenues are up but losses deepen to $239.6m million despite lowest quarter since 2020 ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Yet they are not that difficult to get greenlight because of the multi-billion-Dollar success of the Honour of Kings and League of Legends (PC). And it’s also not that difficult to get the talent to build these games as we developers want to make MOBAs because we love playing them on PC. So what happened to Pokemon Unite?

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Game Development News

MAY 15, 2023

Game Republic el presidente Jamie Sefton grants an audience to Richie Shoemaker as Yorkshire’s industry network celebrates 20 years of interdependence

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Game Development News

JANUARY 14, 2025

Tandem Events has launched an open call for speakers for Develop:Brighton 2025

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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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Game Development News

MAY 12, 2023

Arnaud Chemin, head of gaming at Bodyguard.ai talks about the benefits of AI moderation in online communities

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Game Development News

MARCH 16, 2023

The UK Government has announced that the Video Games Tax Relief system will be replaced with a Video Games Expenditure Credit system as part of the 2023 Spring Budget

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Game Development News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Naomi House and Jacksplace, local hospices for children and young adults, have announced the return of their gaming fundraiser event Game On!

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

That means players engage more as a job (often as “scholars” from developing countries who borrow in-game assets from richer “sponsors” or “managers,” who receive a cut of their earnings) than for fun. What’s notable about Sky Mavis is that even though it clearly aims to develop a great game, that’s not its guiding mission.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Chess has also become something of an esports sensation, which started after grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura coached streamer xQc on chess over Twitch and eventually led to the creation of a dedicated group of prolific streamers setting up an amateur chess tournament called Pogchamps on Chess.com. on Android/iOS or $46.99/$48.99

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It is built for mobile but will first debut on PC. A complaint often leveled at Hearthstone, particularly from members of Hearthstone’s professional/esports scene, is that overtly random effects are too powerful, which sometimes leads to weaker players defeating more skilled players. So, in the meantime, what do we know?

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. Their first step would be to hire a core founding team around which they would build the development team.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

It specializes in game development. . Specialties: – Game Development, Motion Capture, Art Outsourcing, 3D Animation, 2D Animation, VR, Concept Art, and Co-Development. Specialties: – Tech and Art Outsourcing, Game Development, and Game Training. Winking Corporation. Nuare Studio. Keywords Studio.

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Game Development News

JULY 11, 2023

Harry Lang, VP of Marketing at Kwalee on why games are bigger than a new religion - MCV/DEVELOP

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Second, quest development is linear on the map. In the earlier stage, the raids in the main quest are quite easy and exist to help develop the story. There are 3 types of quest in Lost Ark , dialogue with someone, defeat/collection tasks, interactive tasks. The defeat/collection task sets a conservative target which is 10 in general.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 26, 2023

This blog details the service launches, customer sessions, and partner announcements most relevant to game developers. Service Launches Across more than 100 service launches from Amazon Web Services (AWS) at re:Invent, these are the top services for developers to build, run, and grow their games. Watch the re:Invent breakout session.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 16, 2025

To boost visibility and engagement for its growing library of titles, international game development studio The Gang overhauled its backend with LootLocker , powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), and bolstered its server hosting with Amazon GameLift. It helps developers connect disparate systems across titles.

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