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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Played with Fire

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. Full-Body Coordination and Balance VR extends beyond hand-eye coordination to full-body movement training.

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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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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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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. Some highlights from the report: The global market for interactive entertainment is on course to reach $250.2 billion in consumer spending in 2025E , up 4.6% year-over-year.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 15, 2024

Join CleverTap Gaming and AWS for an immersive, inspiring experience with some of the brightest minds in mobile and console gaming at the Product x LiveOps Symposium, which takes place from 16:00-17:30 CET. Register here.

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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. 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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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

” 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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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This venture involved work in embedded systems, IoT projects, animations, and mobile app development. He also values partnerships with organizations like CCA, Nest Hub, and Esports Africa, which offer valuable support. Despite initial success, Esio also ventured into agriculture, cultivating cucumbers and maize.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

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. Clasharama), community and esports (.

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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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Gamesbrief

MARCH 19, 2021

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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Game Daily

AUGUST 21, 2023

The most active sectors by value were technology (24 percent), followed by mobile and esports (19 percent each), mobile cloud gaming (18 percent) and console / PC (15 percent). Other companies that attracted investment include esports production company Nodwin Gaming ($28 million), mobile MMO developer Madngine ($22.5

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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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Game Errors

MARCH 7, 2024

Many believe that Gaming and Esports industry has taken a hard hit as the offices reopened after COVID-19, and the downfall of this industry has begun. The reason behind this is the portability of mobile devices and their affordability compared to other gaming devices available out there.

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Game Design Aspect

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Women in Games is a non-profit organization for women in video, mobile, online games, and esports that is dedicated to empowering women to reach their full potential. If you would, I would appreciate it if you would register and vote for me (and 5 other deserving women.)

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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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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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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

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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Game Errors

APRIL 19, 2023

One factor that has contributed to the changing landscape of the Japanese gaming industry is the rise of mobile gaming. While Japan was an early adopter of mobile gaming, the country has struggled to keep up with the explosive growth of mobile gaming in other parts of the world.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy ? As the Supercell blog post stated a year ago, “ We are establishing this new team to pursue a specific goal: assemble and enable the best talent in North America to create what’s next across any platform, not just mobile. Subscribe here!

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2023

Maybe it’s for a dialogue-driven narrative story, but your expertise is in competitive esports titles. Maybe you decided that VR isn’t working or mobile marketing costs too much, or that there just aren’t enough sales on the Nintendo consoles to justify it.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 22, 2023

Yuga collaboration In its marketing for Wreck League, nWay claims the game is no less than “an entirely new project that marks the next chapter in the evolution of fighting games, competitive gaming, and esports” Season 1 is being launched in collaboration with Yuga Labs’ The Extended Yugaverse of Bored Ape and Otherside.

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Game Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Over the years, various attempts to diversify into digital retailing, mobile phones and, most recently, NFTs, have come to nothing. video games and esports revenue in the U.S. game and esports revenues now.” to more than $80. Yesterday, GamesBeat reported on a survey from PwC that celebrated total U.S.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 26, 2023

In this session , the company shared its esports journey from a stopgap solution to laying the foundation for the next generation of esports fandom with Project Stryker. Customer Sessions Game developers had a big presence at re:Invent, including spotlights in multiple keynotes and breakout sessions.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

While it’s proven that the MOBA core has not resonated in the Western markets on mobile , both League of Legends and DOTA2 are highly popular with the PC audience in the West. After initial Nintendo Switch launch, the game bursted onto mobile with 30M installs in the first week. So what happened to Pokemon Unite?

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As Riot charts the company’s path forward and continues to explore new ways to serve players, including TV shows, music and esports broadcasts, Rich encourages his team to adopt a cloud-first mindset. When people run into limits, their first instinct used to be ‘I can do it better.’

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

Specialties: – Concept Art, 3D Art, 3D Art, Illustration, Promo Art, 3D Animation, 2D Animation, Mobile Games, Video Games, UI, and Social Networks. Specialties: – Outsource art, VR Full-cycle, AR, External art / engineering development, art, partner, co-dev, and esports. Winking Corporation. Keywords Studio.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2023

Of course, it’s important not to reduce it to 1 or 2 like today’s mobile gaming, but I hope we can do better than that… Written by Ahmetcan Demirel ?️ It will give way to a more consolidated and centralized ecosystem where users will have a lower number of options. Deconstructor of Fun Podcast ? TWiG 228 - Sega Buys Rovio!

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Most mobile gaming companies bet on incremental innovation as their gateway to success. Instead, we think that Clans would have declined even without Clash Royale (albeit at a slower rate) due to the “law of gravity” that all mobile games face after launch and, therefore, that Clash Royale was net positive. Cover image: Talouselämä. #1

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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

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

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 14, 2025

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

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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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