Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

Furthermore, the acquisition of new studios may also generate additional pressure and competition to achieve. Supercell attempted to fight this trend by building better tools and a greater focus on user-generated content. This is great news, as their key franchises desperately need more content more often.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Both Unity and Unreal are popular choices among giant game development studios as well as indie developers. Some say Unreal is better just because it’s a common choice for AAA studios. Unreal, on the other hand, is considered to be the main player in the AAA industry. But is there an ultimate winner? What is Unreal?

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Army Commander by Lion Studios. But Army Commander by Lion Studios seemed to nail this on the head. Masters of simulation, this studio is renowned for making popular sim games for mobile. It’s tricky taking any game from PC and Console to mobile. Casual strategy games have definitely made their mark in 2022.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

Budgets for AAA console games could be more like $20M-$50M (notwithstanding Activision’s $200M+ budgets for Call of Duty although also including marketing and distribution). When we look at the landscape of the biggest and most successful game content companies today, we see that brand is the most common defensibility.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Yet this year it’s the console segment that is the biggest revenue growth driver, with an impressive +7.4% Moving into work-from-home setups, especially for the console’s many massive AAA titles, further hamstrung the majority of the studios. Console publishers rely on blockbuster franchises.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project. Another MMORPG-related bias was the expectation of continuous content updates, visually different challenges/upgrades and a metagame focused on progression and cosmetic rarity.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. AAA game franchises are in the middle of a renaissance on mobile. The Call of Duty series began with the original Call of Duty on PC and console in 2003 and has released one title every year since.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

But when you think about the AAA catalogs offered by Xbox Game Pass and Playstation Now, this just seems like a nearly impossible battle to take on for a streaming media company with little game development experience, no matter how flush with cash they are. These games could be a console, pc, or mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. This strategy is supported by the structure of a 4X studio where the live service team is often separated from the core tech and the publishing team. A true masterpiece of an ad rivaling launch trailers from AAA games. Access all previous predictions here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

Making the right choices at project greenlight can be the difference between a successful future vs. a destabilising force to your studios and portfolio health. How do studios of all sizes invest in new products prudently in today’s games market? Simply put, with the right circumstances, IPs mitigate risk.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 26, 2023

Another great use case is for PC and console games that require compute flexibility ( Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) , hybrid cloud paired with on-premises gear) with ability to burst into the cloud. Metaverse – metaverse experiences are creating results for 3D content creation, gaming, interactive events, and XR streaming.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The rules regarding IAP methods are now the following: Apps may not use their own mechanisms to unlock content or functionality, such as license keys, augmented reality markers, QR codes, cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency wallets, etc. deal Big Pixel Studios veterans' Landmark Games raise $4.6m to $184.4B

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 21, 2023

We preview all the amazing Deconstructor of Fun content coming next week to GDC then get into the news. Eric and Laura give Ethan and Phil major fomo about all the amazing people and sessions they missed at the gaming event of the year!

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