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Series Entertainment acquires mobile game studio Pixelberry Studios

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Series Entertainment has acquired story-driven, episodic mobile game studio Pixelberry.

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Olivier Madiba’s Kiro’o Games is building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem

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Kiro’o Games is an ambitious game development company based in Yaounde, Cameroon. Founder and CEO Olivier Madiba is pursuing his dream of creating the biggest African game studio by building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem which encapsulates games, comics, animation and even restaurants. This is his story.

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The app store standoff is a chance to reshape mobile game discovery | Opinion

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While the growth outlook for mobile is much more optimistic than it has been in years – with Data.ai projecting up to 4% year over year growth – Epic and Google's court proceedings and Apple's response to Digital Markets Act legislation have cast a shadow over this promising growth and the future of the mobile games industry.

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What does the Digital Markets Act mean for mobile game developers?

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The EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) was passed in November 2022 and at the time was heralded as a proverbial "game patch" set to rebalance the digital playing field. But fast forward to today, with the effects of the DMA now taking shape in reality, what does this all really mean for the games and interactive entertainment industry?

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The Play Pendulum • A theory of innovation cycles in interactive entertainment

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Joost van Dreunen argues there’s a deeper, cyclical pattern that explains why interactive entertainment has entered a down period. A visualization of annual consumer spending on interactive entertainment, alongside key industry events, illustrates these shifts. And finally, mobile gaming further transformed the industry.

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How Mobile Gaming Could Come to an End

Deconstructor of Fun

Facebook used games for growth and discarded them quickly as it didn’t need them anymore. The platform killed the booming gaming business by handicapping the distribution channels used to grow our games. I believe that mobile games could be facing the same deliberate death-by-a-platform as games Facebook suffered a decade ago.

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Carry1st receives investment from Sony

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Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox African mobile games publisher Carry1st announced it has received an investment from Sony Innovation Fund. It's the first to receive funding from Sony's initiative that intends to expand entertainment businesses within Africa. Read more