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Checkmate: Discussing the Rise of Chess Games on Mobile

Game Refinery

Digital Chess, one of the first video games ever created, has experienced a massive revival on mobile, with hundreds of Chess games available to download from the iOS store. 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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Add eSports mode to expand your game and gain a new income stream with Moxy

PreMortem.Games

Disclosure: This article has been written as a part of a paid cooperation with Moxy Moxy , founded by a group of game industry veterans and blockchain experts, aims to transform the gaming landscape by providing a platform for eSports-style competitive gaming with real rewards for existing games. And that’s where Moxy steps in.

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AWS gears up for action-packed Gamescom and Devcom 2024

AWS Games

Among the impressive lineup is a generative AI kiosk featuring Ada, an in-game, non-player character (NPC) created using the MetaHuman framework in Unreal Engine 5 and Amazon Bedrock , a toolset for building generative AI applications. Tuesday, August 20 Accelerating Game Development with AWS and Revolgy featuring AWS for Games Sr.

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She Got Game on cultivating a thriving environment for female game developers

PreMortem.Games

” Based in Kenya, Adeline is passionate about creating immersive gaming experiences and has diverse experience in game development projects, from mobile to PC and VR. The African gaming scene actively encourages women, with events like Swahili Esports Champions that celebrate female talent and entrepreneurship.

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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. It’s Team Fight Tactics for casuals.

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The UK Games market grew to £7 billion in 2020

Gamesbrief

billion remains the largest single market, edging out mobile which has £1.5 Digital console grew more in 2020 (24%) than mobile (21%). I can’t quite see where “esports revenue” is captured. Looking at the infographic, several points stand out: Digital console software at £1.7

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2020 Predictions #9: Newcomers Will Reimagine Card Battlers

Deconstructor of Fun

Hearthstone - the leader of the category since it’s 2014 launch - fell 32% on mobile, struggling to retain players with the same old ranked ladder and struggling to monetize players with new game modes. Hearthstone lost on its home turf Hearthstone is no longer the biggest mobile card game in the US - it has been passed by Yu-Gi-Oh!

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