GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This is not, as far as we know, a game that was designed with mobile in mind, as opposed to the aforementioned Genshin Impact – it's a full-bore AAA console title, running with no noticeable compromises on a smartphone.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Masters of simulation, this studio is renowned for making popular sim games for mobile. But not only is it the first to make it to mobile, it’s also the first one to be free to play. Summoners War: Chronicles is yet another MMORPG to make it to mobile. It’s tricky taking any game from PC and Console to mobile.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 11, 2023

It has worked on a wider range of titles, from AAA blockbusters like The Last of Us: Part 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 to mobile hits such as Episode and Monster Train. Based in Madrid and Manila, Secret 6 is outsourcing firm that provides 3D and 2D art, QA services, and full game development support. Read more.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Merge Puzzle: Gossip Harbor One of the most common places to encounter storytelling elements on mobile is within the puzzle genre, and while this might sound unconventional, it’s all relatively seamless in practice. A blog post exploring why storytelling is important on mobile. Gossip Harbor (source: GameRefinery platform).

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

EA announced that it was canceling Apex Legends Mobile and Battlefield Mobile. TWiG 218 - Everdale's Metacore Move / Death of E3 / EA Abandons Mobile Shooters ✉️ Received this email from a friend? He also blamed a “challenging” and “softer mobile market”. He also blamed a “challenging” and “softer mobile market”.

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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. Why are hybrid mobile games becoming more popular?

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2023

It’s mostly because mobile devices became the platform du jour to publish movie tie-in games and other similar shovelware-style titles. Development costs are lower, turnaround time is faster, expectations are lower, and audiences are larger on mobile, so it makes sense that licensors would go there.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As reported by IGN , the entertainment union known as the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) collected data from hundreds of AAA, mobile, and indie developers between March and mid-August 2023. 57% of those surveyed said they most recently worked on an AAA game.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 22, 2023

Technological advancements, especially in mobile and 5G technology, along with the emergence of cloud gaming services, are playing a pivotal role in enhancing the overall player experience. Console gaming has the highest players-to-payers conversion, mobile gaming has the lowest.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The market is so saturated, that every little defect becomes an ‘elephant in the room’ for players that often compare a low-budget indie title to AAA games. The more you raise the bar, the more you risk disappointing somebody, especially if you don’t have AAA budgets.”

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Starloop Studios

MAY 4, 2023

With every new console generation comes the anticipation of next-gen games and the experiences they can bring to players. The arrival of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S was met with similar excitement and curiosity as to what the new console generation would bring. At Magic Media, we are well-versed in [.]

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

They say imitation is a form of flattery, and there’s no shortage of mobile games that share a striking similarity with other popular titles in the PC, console and mobile markets. Why isn’t there a mobile version of Fall Guys? That said, there are arguments for and against releasing a mobile version of Fall Guys.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As in-engine rendering improves, AAA games will likely move away from pre-rendered cutscenes but AAA games are far from the only games that use cutscenes and have engines that can render high quality cinematic visuals (e.g. mobile, consoles with weaker hardware specs, indie games) for important parts.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2024

If we're building a big budget AAA first person shooter, we can expect that our representative player recognizes and likes first person shooters and is likely already familiar with the basics of how to play them. It is unlikely we will need to teach them the very basics like how to move about the map and aim or what strafing is.

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Cocos

MAY 7, 2023

Currently not yet, we are still a mobile first game engine, we are not trying to attract AAA studios from using in-house, Unreal, Unity engines. Not yet, we hope more devs can try on Nintendo Switch publish pstrejczek: Are there any plans to support other major console brands (xbox ,playstation) ?

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Game Daily

AUGUST 15, 2023

KAP Games is a distribution and publishing platform that can best be described as a kind of Steam for Web3 browser and mobile games. ” Mobile growth KAP Games is planning to offer PC client downloads for games, but at the moment, the most significant growth is happening in the mobile space.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Some say Unreal is better just because it’s a common choice for AAA studios. Created by Epic Games in 1988, Unreal has won worldwide recognition for high-end graphics and photorealistic quality and has taken the mantle as the AAA game engine. Unity is considered the best solution for mobile game development. What is Unreal?

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AWS Games

MAY 12, 2023

In 2023, gaming is for everyone and we are proud to support the game developer community Video game creators are now able to share their vision and journey with a growing, global audience and gaming has been transformed by innovations in mobile devices, Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality and realistic, high-fidelity graphics.

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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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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

Learn about the technology behind the in-game ThorAI (powered by Amazon Bedrock), and get a dive deep into fully voiced, interactive in-game NPCs in the companion mobile game Missing. launched in April 2023 and quickly grew to become the world’s #1 casual mobile game, surpassing $1B in revenue within six months.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Each device left an enduring mark on the gaming landscape, contributing to the evolution of portable gaming and influencing subsequent evolutions in the industry including today’s multi-billion-dollar mobile gaming landscape. Why are handhelds not as popular today? Handhelds have taken many different forms today.

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Starloop Studios

OCTOBER 26, 2023

PC, console, mobile, and any other platforms imaginable have much in common regarding their needs from game UI design, but they [.] Game UI design for multiplatform projects is a significant challenge for game developers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy ? As the Supercell blog post stated a year ago, “ We are establishing this new team to pursue a specific goal: assemble and enable the best talent in North America to create what’s next across any platform, not just mobile. Subscribe here!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Additionally, the modern backend can implement rendering methods , such as forward clustered, mobile, and more in the future (such as deferred clustered, cinematic, etc.). and is intended to run on very old PC hardware as well as most older (still working) mobile phones. Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0,

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

Specialties: – Concept Art, 3D Art, 3D Art, Illustration, Promo Art, 3D Animation, 2D Animation, Mobile Games, Video Games, UI, and Social Networks. AAA Game Art Studio. AAA Game Art Studio is willing to take on all difficulties as long as they are connected to outsourcing game art. Winking Corporation. Keywords Studio.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2023

Santosh has worked on all gaming platforms, but his core competencies are PC, consoles, mobile and web games. It was iXie’s first time working on an AAA title, but the project was completed to the client’s satisfaction and iXie was able to get added to the credits of the game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 11, 2024

Mobile continued to search for growth in the post-IDFA world. For the past years, large AAA publishers have been shifting their strategy to produce Games-as-a-Service (GaaS). The inflation in EU and US is above 3% today. PC games grew driven by dominating live service franchises and a slew of innovative AA titles.

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Game Errors

MAY 15, 2023

Even in the era of modern and realistic AAA titles, the problem still occurs. As a backup option, you can use a mobile hotspot. Verify game files Update the network driver Delete cache files 1. Verify game files Corrupted game files have been the enemy of gamers and game developers since the early 2D games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

In the mobile free to play area, additional capital also means the ability to fund long payback games at scale (e.g., 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). Apex Legends, Call of Duty Mobile, etc.)

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Ethan is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Platform. If you’re interested in growing your business on mobile and beyond, look no further. Written by Ethan Levy , who is always looking for worthy, free-to-play mobile games for the N3TWORK Platform. This post is sponsored by Xsolla.

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Moonmana

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Moonmana’s expert developers have created games for companies such as Warner Brothers, Azerion, Glu Mobile (parent company EA), Laguna Games, Rollic (parent company Zynga), Gameforge, Saber Interactive (parent company Embracer Group), Ruby Games (parent company Rovio), and a few others.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

We dive into decline of hypercasual games and hybridcasual, an attempt by mobile game developers to adapt to the new normal in the industry. It’s no surprise to any readers of this newsletter that Apple set off a nuclear warhead into the heart of the mobile games business with IDFA deprecation, under the thin veil of user privacy.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Big Developers Having Varying Success The most successful AAA remasters are the ones that keep the original game as much as possible and add to it. It's also a shame because the old Final Fantasy games are still surprisingly playable and work great on mobile. Also, the whole story is being released over like seven years.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Keep reading this blog to understand how mobile game development costs differ from AAA games. Will it be a 2D puzzle or an AAA game like Grand Theft Auto V? It may include– mobile devices like Android and iOS or other systems like PS and Xbox. Depending on these, you can make a budget-friendly game or the next GTA.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

AAA game franchises are in the middle of a renaissance on mobile. Several of the industry’s top IPs have received high-fidelity ports that have been successful in bringing core franchise players to the mobile format. It was only a matter of time before Call of Duty would find its feet on mobile. So is COD Mobile dead?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

These are generally games that need to process game logic on dozens of thousands of objects, where data-oriented optimizations become a must, as the amount of pages moved into CPU cache increases by several orders of magnitude, severely affecting performance (and battery usage on mobile devices). Other AAA games with lots of content going on.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

Although most of them come from the F2P mobile sector, the industry has observed professionals transitioning from the PC/console space to focus on developing AAA-quality blockchain games. Seasoned executives, developers, designers, and many more made the move to blockchain games.

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