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VR Can Improve Your Skills

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APRIL 2, 2025

VR-based balance and mobility games have shown remarkable improvements in users ability to execute complex movements with greater confidence and precision. Share your thoughts with us and check our social media : CLICK Check out our other posts: CLICK! Are you ready to experience the benefits of VR training? VR can improve your skills!

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Technology Advancements Impacting Esports Gaming

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FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Esports has taken the gaming world by storm in recent times. With lucrative tournaments and millions of fans globally, eSports gaming has become a flourishing sector that doesn’t show any signs of slowing down soon. According to Statista market forecasts, the eSports user base is expected to reach over 856 million by 2028.

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Industry Voices: Social mobility and the games industry: how an industry worth £4.6 billion is failing its talent

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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Bukola Akingbade of Kucheza Gaming on nurturing dreams and shaping industries

PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 26, 2024

So far she has facilitated the awards of esports athletes between the ages of 8 and 18 with rewards such as dedicated gaming laptops and Amazon vouchers. Through initiatives like mobile game jams and interschool esports, she aims to foster girls’ interest in STEAM fields.

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Aldora market forecast 2025: Game Industry is slowly moving upward

PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 26, 2024

Mobile gaming continues to dominate this category, accounting for $109.6 billion in 2025E Esports & Live-Streaming face ongoing monetization challenges. Esports revenue is expected to decline by 3% to $173 million in 2024 and another -8% in 2025E, highlighting the difficulties in effectively monetizing competitive gaming audiences.

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[From the industry] The Esports World Cup Foundation has announced a strategic partnership with Tencent

Game Development News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The Esports World Cup Foundation has announced a partnership with Tencent, making Tencent E-sports the EWCFs strategic partner in China

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Supercell's Record Year: Crushing It, But At What Cost?

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. The team experimented with everything from esport to UGC and even went as far as removing gacha - only to put it back in.

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[From the industry] Xsolla powers web shop launches for 40 of the top 100 mobile games

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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Why Multiplayer Games are Good? Here’re the Reasons

Game Errors

APRIL 5, 2023

The now immensely successful eSports game cost up to $250 million to create and market. It doesn’t matter what device you choose: Mobile, console and PC all support advanced multiplayer games in 2022. Every major game publisher wants to have an eSports game. Fortunately, the game’s return on investment has been over 400%.

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Trip Hawkins on The New High Score | Past and Future of Video Games

Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In looking at recent innovations, a few key takeaways: Platform Expansion: We saw 1 new platform emerge but it was a huge one that now eclipses the other platforms: mobile Genre Expansion: We continue to see genre expansion and as before likely powered by technology enablement (e.g., eSports I think there’s a few of them.

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Why Marvel Snap became a hit and for how long will it remain one?

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Executive Summary What: MARVEL SNAP is a mobile CCG by Second Dinner, a new studio founded by veterans from Hearthstone. Key strength: Its biggest strength is the gameplay perfectly adapted for mobile. So when it comes to mobile, it’s another of these genres that do not work as well in the West. Source: Data.ai Source: Data.ai

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Apex Legends vs. Fortnite: Assessing Popularity in 2023 – Who Takes the Lead?

Game Errors

JUNE 6, 2023

Platform preferences: Both Fortnite and Apex Legends are available on mobile, PC, and console. Here are some interesting stats and graphs about these events: The total number of tournaments: According to the Esports Charts, both Apex and Fortnite had many official and unofficial tournaments. Some of these events are official.

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2021 Predictions #4 Contenders Throwdown for Supercell's Mid-Core Crown

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games. While today's Game of War is little more than a profitable legacy title, the game was pivotal to growing the 4X sub-genre to what it is today - a $5B sub-genre on mobile in the Western markets. Then Yu-Gi-Oh came along.

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These are the categories for the MCV/DEVELOP Awards 2025 (and nominations are now open!)

Game Development News

JANUARY 16, 2025

The MCV/DEVELOP Awards will be back this June at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, which overlooks Londons Hyde Park

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Develop:Brighton is now open to speaker applications

Game Development News

JANUARY 16, 2024

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

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Riot's Runeterra Declares War Against Blizzard's Hearthstone

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Riot combined a full-blown media blitz with a Twitch integration that awarded beta keys to people viewing Runeterra streams to secure approximately a zillion eyeballs on their new game for a few days. It is built for mobile but will first debut on PC. So, in the meantime, what do we know? Runeterra is coming in 2020.

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Viva Game Republic: Jamie Sefton on Yorkshire’s 20 years of interdependence

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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TIGA has called for the Shortage Occupation List to be expanded with more games industry jobs

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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Develop:Brighton is now accepting speaker applications for its 2025 conference

Game Development News

JANUARY 14, 2025

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

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Early bird tickets for EGX 2023 are now available

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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The UK Government has announced additional tax relief for the games industry

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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Industry Voices: Games are the media altar every brand should be praying at

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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TIGA has called for the Shortage Occupation List to be expanded with more games industry jobs

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Early bird tickets for EGX 2023 are now available

The UK Government has announced additional tax relief for the games industry

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