iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Mobile gaming has become popular in recent times thanks to the growing number of mobile device users. Several mobile game engines are used to create mobile games. However, Unity has stood out as one of the most preferred and trusted mobile game engines. Let’s find out. And that’s where Unity wins.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 19, 2024

One of the biggest things that sets it apart, aside from the space station design, is the ability to design mobile stations, mobile factories, battleships, and cargo haulers, by slapping rockets onto any of your creations. Once playtesting began in early 2023, player feedback further refined my vision.

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

the #1 casual game launch of 2023 Room 2024, West Hall Scopely’s Monopoly Go! launched in April 2023 and quickly grew to become the world’s #1 casual mobile game, surpassing $1B in revenue within six months. AWS for Games GDC 2024 session highlights Wednesday, March 20 10:30-11:00am: Building and scaling MONOPOLY GO!,

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 22, 2023

He says it helps artists to free up their time and produce content more efficiently. Currently, our system is designed to address highly repetitive and mechanical content production problems, such as matching lip movements. By utilizing these systems effectively, we can definitely present high-quality game content to players.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Digital Chess, one of the first video games ever created, has experienced a massive revival on mobile, with hundreds of Chess games available to download from the iOS store. million people signing up to the browser-turned-mobile game Chess.com and a 603% leap in chess book sales in the US; it now even has an exclusive game on Netflix.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 22, 2023

Image: pikisuperstar on Freepik Newzoo’s Global Gamer Study 2023 is a true treasure trove of interesting facts about the people out there that hopefully end up with your game in their hands. They are likely to have higher levels of engagement, increased spending on gaming, and a greater inclination towards consuming gaming content.

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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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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With the technology and tools we’re developing alongside our partners, we want to foster a community for our namesake game that is able to create their own content and benefit from it, and immerse themselves in content that others have made and shared.” ” Core to Avalon will be player-created content.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 26, 2023

AWS re:Invent 2023 is fast approaching, and AWS for Games is gearing up to welcome attendees from around the globe at the annual conference for developers in Las Vegas November 27 – December 1. You can also download the AWS Events mobile app for iOS or Android to plan and navigate your re:Invent experience.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Given these incredible tailwinds, it’s not surprising that mobile game companies have delivered the vast majority of gaming venture returns in recent years. But now the era of startup mobile gaming growth is over, as you can read here. The explosive growth of the smartphone. Games become more expensive to make.

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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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Game Errors

JUNE 6, 2023

So, we have made our estimation for 2023’s data in some cases. Year Apex Legends Fortnite 2020 13,093,785 191,302,008 2021 67,563,911 338,845,462 2022 99,458,463 312,730,506 2023 17,333,097 71,906,471 The following smooth line graph shows the trend of active peak players over the last three years.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

AWS Session Highlights Harnessing generative AI to create unlimited content within game worlds : Saltwater Games details the generative AI architecture of “Resurgence,” an upcoming free-to-play, post-apocalyptic, open-world crafting and survival game. the #1 casual game launch of 2023 : Scopely’s Monopoly Go!

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 13, 2023

It’s a fully animated social game for mobile and desktop. Therefore we would love to connect with publishers and studios for Indies, classic AA, family friendly, or casual titles that want to bring their game to a global audience”, says Content Partner Manager Rachelle Verheijden. In 2019 Ubisoft bought the company.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 23, 2023

In 2023, the integration of wearable technology into game development is emerging as a significant trend. Here are some examples of the most common wearable technology: ● Smart Watches: These devices offer features like fitness tracking, notifications, messaging, music control, and mobile app integration.

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AWS Games

MARCH 14, 2023

By Rob Schoeppe, General Manager, Global Game Tech Solutions & Business Development at AWS With the 2023 Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) just one week away, the AWS for Games team has been talking with our customers, partners, and internal team about the trends they think will have the largest impact on the industry over the years to come.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 4, 2024

Certainly, after 2023’s breakneck release slate, the coming 12 to 18 months will be more modest. Since the start of the year, there have been 7,800 announced layoffs so far in 2024 , compared to 10,500 for all of 2023 and 8,500 in 2022. million per employee in 2023. Each has let go of a similar portion of its workforce.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 26, 2024

She highlighted the shift from scheduled TV programs where TV was on between 4 pm and 10 pm when she was a child to on-demand content today. She observed an evolution in her children’s preferences from traditional Disney shows to influencer and gameplay content. Now there are hundreds of millions.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 7, 2023

Top image: Marvel Strike Force by Scopely This week Savvy Games Group , a subsidiary of the Saudi Arabian government’s Public Investments Fund, announced that it agreed to purchase Scopely , a privately held mobile game publisher, for $4.9 As expected, consolidation in gaming continues well into 2023. billion by Sony. billion by Sony.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 11, 2024

Mobile continued to search for growth in the post-IDFA world. Diablos, EAFC, Madden, Hogwarts Legacy, Baldurs Gate 3, Zelda Tears of the Kingdom… 2023 seemed like the year for consoles with all those blockbusters launching back-to-back. PC games grew driven by dominating live service franchises and a slew of innovative AA titles.

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Game Errors

MARCH 7, 2024

(Image via Newzoo) Some of the highest-selling video games include Animal Crossing, GTA 5, Minecraft, Call of Duty, and more; however, mobile games had the highest percentage of revenue (around 50% in 2022, as per Newzoo) among all.

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Game Errors

APRIL 4, 2023

Table of Contents Check for game server outages or maintenance Allow MW2 through your firewall Release and renew your IP and flush your DNS Update the game Try using a VPN 1. However, if none of the above methods work, you can switch to another ISP or mobile internet and you should no longer encounter the Call of Duty error code.

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AWS Games

MAY 12, 2023

From time to time, our AWS GameTime guests may also share exclusive news, easter egg content and merchandise! In 2023, gaming is truly for everyone, grandmas play Animal Crossing , teenagers brag about their Fortnite skills, and audience-controlled bots play Pokemon ! Of course we have a gameplay segment!

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2024

.” “As evident from everyone’s fixation on social media for years, content that humans instinctively find interesting continues to emerge infinitely. We can take inspiration from content going viral on platforms like TikTok and YouTube, and indeed, we have created hit games in 2023 by doing so.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The research report is based on 1,900 blockchain games and a thousand funding rounds from 2018 through to October, 2023 and includes insights into fundraising, competitive dynamics, and blockchain networks. In 2023, more than 81 new blockchain networks that target gaming were announced, growing by 40 percent year-on-year.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Whereas if 90% of the people in a bar were women, the idea is that the environment is more appealing than the actual content. 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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Jesper Juul

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Written November 2023. I wanted to answer this by examining points of contention about what we consider, or don’t consider, a game – that is, I made descriptive definition of how the category of games functions, rather than a static and prescriptive one. What is a Game? What is a game? What is a game?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

During the lockdown years companies grew in headcount to supply content against the massive surge of demand. The time spent on these accounts for over 60% of the time spent in games in 2023. Given how incredibly solid 2023 was for new game releases, the share of new game playtime rose only by 4% ( from 19% in 2022 to 23% in 2023).

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As we look out to our plans for 2023, we will continue to increase marketing investment in our growth franchises while being disciplined and data-driven in how we allocate marketing capital. billion in September quarter but lowers outlook NCSoft invests $15M in Mysten Labs for Web3 gaming infrastructure Square Enix' s H1 sales dip to $1.1

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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.

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2d Game Art Guru

APRIL 5, 2023

Create and work with textures from photos taken with your mobile phone. Using photos I took with my mobile phone, I create texture images that can be mixed with my design using various blend modes and adjustment layers to fine-tune the images. It helps me to find the right topics and the best style of presenting the content.

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Game Errors

JUNE 14, 2023

STEAM offers a classic game distribution service and features an online web-based and mobile digital storefront, digital rights management (DRM), matchmaking servers, video streaming, and social networking services. However, STEAM has evolved and is now the go-to platform for game developers due to its user-friendly interface.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 23, 2023

To understand the changes that got the game from its post-launch slump to where it is now, we should take a look at two things: what kind of game is Merge Gardens is and what it was like before 2023. That's the first and the most important part of the new success formula for Merge Gardens, 2023 edition.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The Deconstructor of Fun x Google Istanbul conference is coming up on March 9th, 2023! Consumer, however, has been less consistent – including the painfully visible retreat from the mobile phone OS market amid the declining relative importance of PCs. If you’re not one of the 11,000 subscribers of our newsletter, tap here!

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I believe that mobile games could be facing the same deliberate death-by-a-platform as games Facebook suffered a decade ago. Just remember one thing: Even though Facebook pulled the plug on games, the gaming business rose to unexpected new heights on a new platform, which was mobile. We’re like frogs being slowly boiled alive.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

The Metaverse is not just a new trend in the gaming industry but a whole new way of experiencing and engaging with digital content. These platforms also offer a variety of tools and features to help users create their content, such as games, items, and experiences.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

In addition, due to the topology creation process, 3D modeling is time consuming and has a high entry barrier for content creation. Changing the resolution of a finished mesh (for a mobile game, for example) requires an even less detailed model to run efficiently, forcing the modeler to recreate it from scratch.

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