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 million.

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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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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2023

Maybe you just bought a studio. Maybe it’s for a dialogue-driven narrative story, but your expertise is in competitive esports titles. The pitched game is for a platform you’re scaling back on (or not supporting altogether). Your company doesn’t have the budget available. Maybe your games from the last year didn’t sell well.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 25, 2023

Erik Londré: I’ve spent a lot of my life organizing events, and making people have fun, for companies outside games, and more recently, for esports organizations. From there we’ve been growing out our Roblox studio. GameDaily: Tell us about the new Fortnite studio? GameDaily: How did Karta come into being?

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 9, 2023

They delved into the impacts of accessible game development tools, the rise of in-game development platforms like Roblox and Fortnite, and how these changes influence the industry at large. However, he also warns of the centralization of power that might stifle innovation in the face of platforms like Roblox becoming increasingly dominant.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2023

In Conversation: Riot SVP & League Studio Head Andrei van Roon The Consolidation of Blockchain Gaming The entire world is preparing for a possible economic downturn, and companies are trying to find ways to minimize the negative impact. Listen to one of our podcasts from this week, we’ve got: ? Gaming Roundup ???????

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AWS Games

JUNE 8, 2023

Imagined as a sci-fi take on esports, the game was developed in only two years by a single developer, Kavosh Omidi, using Amazon GameLift dedicated server management on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Once I had a playable build of ‘Crossfar,’ I started researching a good place to host the game and a platform that would support growth.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

It’s a MOBA done by Tencent’s TiMi Studios. The same studio that is responsible for t he biggest MOBA in the World, Honor of Kings. Not to mention that MOBAs are very streamable, so in addition to all the free installs, the game will also grow with support from influencers - and perhaps even esports.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

But please keep in mind that Hearthstone is cross-platform title making likely over 80% of its revenue on PC. With two out of the three titles being cross-platform, it may just be that the disappointment was more on the mobile site and that the games made most of their revenue on the PC side. Legends of Runeterra.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 19, 2022

From our sponsors: RECUR is a world-class NFT platform working with game creators looking to build with NFTs. RECUR provides an institutional-grade, secure platform for creators and an easy-to-use experience for users. Let us now see if Sky Mavis’ efforts have been sufficient to overcome their challenges.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Brawl Stars is an action-packed, esports-focused MOBA and thus it didn’t cannibalize existing games: in fact, Clash of Clans remained stable, Clash Royale continued its rate of decline, and Supercell’s total revenues in 2018 grew. Revenue per Install of Supercell games in their first 12 months after launch (source: Sensor Tower).

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The Genesis and Rise of Sky Mavis Axie Infinity is developed by a studio called Sky Mavis , which is headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and officially formed in 2018 to bring the game to life. Public Sale (11%): This occurred on October 10th 2020 through the Binance Launchpad platform. Read the press release here.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 19, 2024

Growth in Cross-platform Gaming Cross-platform games have become more popular than ever. One out of four gamers play cross-platform as of 2023. Well, this implies that developers have had to work more on cross-platform games, ensuring they deliver seamless cross-platform experiences. But why has this been a trend?

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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. So while it’s possible to gather insights about Snap in the mobile platform, we really can’t compare its revenue to say which games are bigger. Written by Javier Barnés. We don’t know their true sizes.

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Ratchet & Clank – Rift Apart Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is a remarkable third-person shooter platform game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It features stunning visuals, inventive weaponry, and gameplay advancements, making it one of the standout titles for the platform.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

We're talking about massive layoffs across the tech industry and gaming in particular, new mobile game studios from NetEase and Nintendo, Playtika's latest earnings report, the dramatic and sudden collapse of FTX and the ongoing creator royalty debate going on in the world of NFTs. ?

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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

The antithesis of hypercasual, but Shea said the results mean that a similar approach will now be deployed across all of Voodoo’s studios and games going forwards. This year is certainly going to be difficult for those studios who relied on the old hypercasual success formula,” SayGames CEO Yegor Vaikhanski told MobileGamer.biz.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 19, 2025

Despite headline-grabbing studio closures, high-profile game failures, and over 15,000 layoffs in 2024 alone, these aren’t signs of an industry in terminal declinetheyre markers of a structural transformation. At SXSW, in my fifth appearance, I challenged the prevailing narrative of gamings so-called decline. Get it here.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 16, 2025

In the last two decades, platforms like Steam and Roblox have made it easier to break into video game publishing. The studio also plans to leverage these investments in the future to similarly boost the player experience for other games in its catalog (such as Unseen on Steam and Strongman Simulator on Roblox) and cross market its titles.

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