Game Developer

JANUARY 16, 2024

Moving is one of the top life stressors but sometimes well worth it in the scheme of upward career mobility and gaining a wealth of experience that wouldn’t happen while staying in one place.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 27, 2023

Mobile games and gacha mechanics have been closely aligned for a significant time. Regardless of the genre, most gamers playing titles on a mobile device will inevitably encounter gacha mechanics in some shape or form, whether that’s a box gacha, sugoroku gacha, timed gacha, or one of many others.

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Game Developer

APRIL 12, 2024

Even small companies can forge partnerships with top-tier brands like Disney, Marvel, and Mattel, negotiating collaborations that bring mutual benefits.

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Game Developer

JULY 29, 2024

Common animation problems in mobile game development and find practical solutions to improve quality.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 16, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox During the pandemic, the margins in the mobile games market continued to grow, surpassing expectations. Game development professionals often regarded other business niches with disdain, citing superior financial metrics as the reason.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Narrative design has always been an important part of video game development, but its significance in modern-day games continues to grow as narrative elements play an important role in player engagement and retention. One newcomer to the subgenre that has been putting this to the test is Farlight Games’ Call of Dragons.

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Big Games

JANUARY 9, 2025

The gaming world is changing fast, and mobile phones are leading the charge. Not too long ago, we could only dream of playing high-quality 3D games on our phones. Mobile gaming becomes more impressive with every new smartphone release, making traditional gaming methods out of vogue.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 9, 2024

The mobile gaming industry is intertwined with innovations and trends in various fields. In this article, we explore the trends shaping the outlook for mobile game development and strategies for retaining audiences in the context of constant changes. As new trends emerge, audience demands may evolve. Read more

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Game Developer

JANUARY 31, 2025

Kukouri may be leaving games behind, but it lives on through Social First, which is made up of its former employees.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 28, 2024

Mobile games now serve global audiences. Gone are the days when free-to-play mobile audiences were concentrated in Tier 1 gaming markets in the west and the far east. Earlier mobile titles could get away with optimizing gameplay and live events for players in these markets.

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Big Games

MARCH 27, 2025

The mobile gaming industry has exploded recently. Developers are constantly seeking the best tools to create engaging, high-performance games that can run smoothly on a wide range of Android devices. Two of the most popular game enginesUnity and Unreal are the top choices for Android game development.

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Game Developer

JULY 29, 2024

Common animation problems in mobile game development and find practical solutions to improve quality.

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Game Developer

APRIL 25, 2023

The studio was quietly formed in 2022 by a group of former King, Seriously, and Next Games developers.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Activision Blizzard planned to open its own mobile game store before being acquired by Microsoft, court documents from the Epic Games and Google antitrust jury trial show. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Nailing the mobile games scene is all about grabbing users' attention, getting them excited to download your mobile game, and ensuring they have a great time playing it. However, as a mobile game developer, you might find yourself at a crossroads when it comes to executing user acquisition campaigns.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox When you play Resident Evil Village on an iPad Pro, it's flabbergasting to believe that this is Capcom's latest mainline entry running natively on a mobile device, looking every bit as good as its home console counterparts.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

With IDFA regulation changes and an influx of new games entering the market, publishers and mobile game studios are facing an ever-uphill battle to acquire new players (UA) and retain them. However, as we wrote last year , many top-grossing mobile games have found that minigames are the best way to boost UA and player retention.

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Game Refinery

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Following the high-level trend of hybridization across mobile , more and more casual games have started introducing competitive elements into their live event strategies. With that in mind, are mobile game studios missing out on an important opportunity here to boost engagement?

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 23, 2024

I was recently playing a mobile game. Based on a long tradition in mobile gaming, the companies get inspiration and borrow mechanics from each other to the point when the original creator becomes hard to trace. Mobile game developers face rising production and UA costs and a lack of financing.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Unity game developers can now make mobile games accessible to iOS and Android screen readers with the launch of Mobile Screen Reader support, available from Unity 2023.2 Tech Stream and above. This is the first of many runtime features slated to enhance gamer accessibility.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) was passed in November 2022 and at the time was heralded as a proverbial "game patch" set to rebalance the digital playing field. But fast forward to today, with the effects of the DMA now taking shape in reality, what does this all really mean for the games and interactive entertainment industry?

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Game Refinery

MAY 31, 2023

This major privacy update has greatly impacted mobile marketers and advertisers by making it more difficult for them to access the data they rely on for user acquisition purposes. And are there any additional tactics that the top-grossing games are using to encourage their players to agree to tracking? We conducted a study to find out.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 16, 2025

. >> see our gaming market predictions As we enter 2025, the digital advertising and mobile gaming industries are transforming remarkably. As always, there are winners and losers, and within mobile gaming, certain genres stand out as clear frontrunners.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 10, 2024

Series Entertainment has acquired story-driven, episodic mobile game studio Pixelberry.

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Starloop Studios

MARCH 20, 2025

Mobile games have changed significantly since their early years. Now, mobile games are complex titles that can sometimes rival what console and PC games have to offer in terms of their immersion, complexity, and game features.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 4, 2023

For mobile games in particular, managing the authentication and authorization of your players can pose some unique challenges. Some of these challenges relate to the use of mobile devices themselves. Offline authentication : Mobile devices may not always have internet connectivity.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 30, 2025

Kukouri Mobile Entertainment is "moving away from game development". Read more

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

When it comes to female game developers, it’s not only about the quality of their work but also about the environment they work in. This idea was at the heart of the discussion on the 2nd of December 2023 at the AGW panel titled: The Importance of an Entrepreneurial Mindset and Business Support for Female Game Developers.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Looking for a Real Unreal Game Development Company? The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased. The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased.

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Starloop Studios

DECEMBER 1, 2022

There’s a reason that games on Unity make up somewhere around half of all games on mobile, PC, and console. Unity game development is user friendly, accessible, highly customisable, and offers a wide range of opportunities for developers to implement into their final gaming experience.

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AWS Games

MARCH 13, 2025

Experience first-hand how Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Games helps build breakthrough gaming experiences at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), March 17-21, 2025 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Meet with AWS for Games experts to learn about the transformational power of generative AI and cloud game development.

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Starloop Studios

AUGUST 20, 2024

In mobile games, player retention is one of the most important considerations for their continued success. Though much of a game’s success regardless of platform can be determined by its sales and critical reception, continuous player retention is the lifeblood of many mobile games.

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Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Smartphones are as much a tool for entertainment as they are for communication, and mobile games rule the roost for keeping users entertained. This is a win-win for both players as well as game app developers , because good game apps are forever in demand. Ready with your game idea?

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 4, 2024

The direct-to-consumer payment landscape for mobile game developers is changing. Courts and regulators in both the EU and the US have taken issue with Google and Apple's app store monopolies, which means in the near future, mobile game developers may no longer have to mandatorily surrender a 30% cut on all in-game purchases.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Porting successful PC and console games to mobile has become common practice. Soon after, the studio revealed that it had planned to port Vampire Survivors to mobile sooner, but couldn't find a business partner who agreed with its monetisation approach , so eventually decided to do it all in-house.

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Real Programming

JUNE 12, 2023

We use video games as a scaffold to frame our programming lessons around, but some RP4K students do go on to become professional video game developers. Your child may turn their passion for video games into a dynamic and lucrative career, or they could apply the coding skills learned at RP4K in a range of other professions.

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