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Struggling with UA and player retention in a post-IDFA world? Minigames are the answer

Game Refinery

Publishers and studios are constantly looking for new ways to improve these, whether it’s with more powerful ad creative to boost UA or by adding new gameplay mechanics and features to improve player retention. They’re a great way of boosting engagement by providing players with new and exciting ways of enjoying an existing game.

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Shooting for Success: Navigating the Ultra Competitive Shooter Genre

Deconstructor of Fun

What had been brewing on PC for years before with games like Counter-Strike, was now dominant cross-platform and reaching the “masses” on console. Battlefield was in a comfortable #2 slot, Overwatch owned Hero Shooters, and Counter-strike continued to own its niche on PC. We’ve learned that FINALS was not enough.

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Mordhau on consoles: “A lot of smoke and mirrors go into making things hit”

PreMortem.Games

The brutal and bloody combat game from Slovenian developer Triternion has already been very successful for the last 4 years on PC. The fact that you can tell who you’re up against because of how they fight, not how they look or what their name is. It was this idea that pushed everything else.

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The top 22 mobile games of 2022

Game Analytics

Think of this as a hyper-casual Beyblade game with a merge mechanic mixed in the middle. What we liked about Spinner Merge is how they came about the idea of bringing in the merge mechanic. Cart Crash is an incredibly satisfying game that relies much more on timing than any other mechanic. Spinner Merge by Sunday.GG.

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Mortal Kombat 1 Crashing: Best Ways to Fix

Game Errors

The new Mortal Kombat 1 may keep crashing on your PC, even though it should not happen. With the latest Mortal Kombat 1 (MK1), the iconic franchise has been reborn with a brand new fighting system and gameplay mechanics that can entertain the fans in a more exciting way. Install it on your PC. Relaunch the game.

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Understanding the Great Video Game Recession. Or Not.

The Bottom Feeder

And this is just PC games. There is just too much entertainment out there fighting for too little free time. Watching the struggles of Unity is a good way to watch this whole mechanic play out.) Every year, there are fewer parachutes and more people fighting for them. Sure, most of them suck. Just one year, just on Steam.

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Checkmate: Discussing the Rise of Chess Games on Mobile

Game Refinery

Players usually generate income by winning fights and must use strategic thinking to decide whether to use that currency to buy new characters, upgrade their existing characters, raise their team size limit, or refresh the selection of characters on offer.

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