GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Non-endemic companies such as Google and Amazon are among the biggest threats to the games industry.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Epic Games and Google have been ordered to hold settlement talks before the jury of the ongoing antitrust trial makes its verdict.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Legal experts say the outcome of the Epic vs Google trial is "tough to predict" as the two companies battle over the Fortnite firm's antitrust claims made in 2020.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 25, 2024

The company first started prohibiting such apps in 2020 , blocking Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass streaming app (then called ProjectXCloud) and Google's Stadia from the App Store, explaining the move as necessary because Apple could not apply its review process to every game included in such offerings.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

Google is joining Microsoft and Amazon in instituting a wave of mass layoffs, as the company this morning said it would be cutting 12,000 jobs.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Google has begun public testing for its new Playables feature on YouTube, which brings games to the video platform. An update about various tests and experiments the company is running, spotted by 9to5Google , says the test began earlier this week on September 5 starting with a "limited number of users."

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 13, 2023

Google and Nvidia are the latest companies to weigh in on Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard, reportedly expressing their own concerns over the deal to the Federal Trade Commission.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 16, 2023

Stadia is shutting down this week, but Google's first-party controllers are positioned to outlive the service. The company announced on Friday that it will roll out a self-serve tool enabling Stadia pads to be used as Bluetooth controllers.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Supercell is ready to move beyond mobile, as the company today confirmed that it has acquired a majority stake in Melbourne-based Ultimate Studio "to explore Supercell's ambitions to expand to other platforms." Supercell has been a backer of Ultimate since it was founded by ex-Firemonkeys executives in 2018.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The company announced the change on Twitter , with Rovio Classics: Angry Birds due to be pulled from the Google Play Store today – less than a year after it was released last April. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 17, 2023

The game will be developed and published by Niantic, and is due to arrive on the iOS App Store and Google Play in September. During a press briefing, Niantic's chief product officer Kei Kawai said Monster Hunter is a "perfectly natural fit" for the company's style of games. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Joakim Achrén helps founders build successful games companies. I was, “Doh, we are a new company, and there are no legal docs yet. The investors are doing their due diligence to protect the company, the founders, and any investor participating in the company’s financing. Is the company currently subject to any litigation?”

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Xavier Liard has announced the creation of his new company, StoreRider, which focuses on connecting game developers and alternative Android stores. million.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 16, 2024

As a result, companies often outsource gaming services to an external partner to help them with the testing process. During gaming partner selection, companies often face many challenges in finding the right game service provider. Here are some aspects to look out for to truly assess the gaming partner’s reputation: Google reviews.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 17, 2024

It is rare for companies to spend a large amount of money (e.g. This measurement generally includes things like impressions, click-through rates, time spent engaging with the content, google searches for the marketed material, visits to the websites, view counts, average and median watch time, and so on.

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Game Daily

MAY 19, 2023

One of the many interesting presentations at Nordic Game conference next week (May 23-26) comes from Kate Edwards , head of Geogrify , a company that advises game and tech companies on international cultural issues. “Metaverses will have similar domain tailoring as Google Maps. The metaverse will not change those needs.

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Logic Simplified

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Impact of Game Engines Our gaming solutions company uses the most popular and powerful game development engines like Unity , Unreal Engine , Godot, Phaser, Construct, Cocos Creator, Babylon JS, and many others, based on the game idea and the requirements of the game development process. Read more on how we do that.

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Cocos

JANUARY 9, 2024

I was more interested when the end user will get the update, I see that on 122.0.6099.193 and Android it’s no longer happens, and this version (and up) already pushed by Google to many devices I was interested because our company had to put some Cocos3 games down not to badly effect player experience Soon we will re-reveal the games once we know most (..)

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 5, 2024

The video game industry is seeing a big wave of layoffs and game company closures, and it may be that we have begun the long, slow, agonizing bleed of a recession. Apple, Google, Netflix, Nintendo, Playstation, GamePass, EA Play? Zero interest rates meant companies didn't need to turn a profit. It's a hard thing to write about.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A lot of tech companies are laying off workers after investing big early in the pandemic and expecting things to remain that way. Business gonna business. If the revenues coming in can’t support the costs going out, they’re going to have to either raise revenues or cut costs. Cutting costs means cancelling projects and laying off workers.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 6, 2024

Upon his return, Bowden established his first company, Catalyze. He explains, “The focus of Catalyze is to take groups of African companies across all industries to international trade shows worldwide.” He also stressed the significance of recognizing business prospects in overlooked markets.

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Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

An excellent example of this is Google – a company that became a synonym for searching for information. Subreddit Name Change to r/EASportsFC by u/FIFAModerators in EASportsFC When iconic companies and games change names, their marketing teams have a lot of weight on their shoulders. Habits are everything!

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Logic Simplified

JANUARY 14, 2024

Some popular Cloud gaming services include Google Stadia, Shadow Cloud Gaming Service, Xbox Game Pass, Nvidia GeForce Now, PlayStation Plus Premium, and Amazon Luna. As a game development company based out of India, our services cover Game Analytics support, backed by AI, ML, and Deep Learning.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

Join one of the few powerful game companies taking over mobile. Likelihood of the prediction: 87% #2 Publishers Push to Off-Platform Payments What we love most about Apple and Google is that they know your credit card number. A big win for companies like Xsolla. These companies aren't dead. Exit mobile. Discovery is dead.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 21, 2023

Now, with the new game A Void Hope coming up on almost 3 years of development, Forslind finds himself juggling his roles as both CEO and Game Designer of his company called Elden Pixels. Laughing, Forslind admits he’s happy with the name now: “Even if someone made a game called Elden Ring that messed up our Google Alerts!”

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

She is running a Google Doc for unemployed gaming workers. Launched last month, it features people looking for work, a list of companies hiring, and a list of recruiters. Now, seven of them are suing the company for a fairer severance package. ” Yesterday, she added herself to the list.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2020

However, more recently the game has fallen on hard times along with the rest of the company as revenues have dropped from an all time monthly net revenue high of $128M in March of 2017 to $17M this past March 2020 (according to Sensor Tower). What is the controversy surrounding the company? source: Sensor Tower. So: Who is AppLovin?

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Gamesbrief

AUGUST 22, 2022

As an aside, and looking at 2020, we see that the 4 main platforms of Apple, Google, Sony and Microsoft represent 57% of Activision’s revenue. We know that Nintendo is less than 10% otherwise Activision Blizzard would have to declare it, so consoles (not including PC) are around 1/3 of the company’s revenue.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Verdict: CORRECT (1 Point) #2 Publishers Push to Off-Platform Payments Webshops, enabled by companies like Xsolla , have had a breakthrough year. Which will result in a big win for companies like Xsolla. What we love most about Apple and Google is that they know your credit card number.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 28, 2023

In addition, balancing his fifth year as a Computer Engineering student and a pivotal role at Avalon, an American-based software company was no small feat. In fact, it took tact and at some point, he even convinced his university and successfully interned in his own company.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2022

These privacy changes are expected to hit Google Play in some capacity in the near future. During the last year or so we’ve seen Google Play becoming the preferred platform for testing and launching new titles due to the fact that they haven’t implemented as strict of privacy changes as Apple’s App Store.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

But there are hopes for mobile, too as Microsoft announced that it’s building an Xbox mobile gaming store to take on Apple and Google last month. This is in line with the macroeconomic situation where companies that possess the pricing power are making consumers carry the cost of inflation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This was one of the key takeaways from our recent discussion with Sandro Gelashvili , Head of Creative Works at Google, and Rau Dosymbetov , Creative Producer at Nexters, on the Deconstructor of Fun podcast. More than ever, user acquisition teams must rely on machine learning and AI to find the right audiences for their games and apps.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

As of last week, only 13 months later, Judge Rogers issued a permanent injunction, resulting in two key takeaways for the tech giants: For Apple: The company must allow iOS apps to offer payment options besides the ones subject to Apple’s 30% fees within the next 90 days. What will Google do?

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DameDev.tv

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It was a small company where a lot of the processes were still done by hand. I ended up bringing the company into the digital era by redesigning the website. And  I even developed a massive Google price calculator for the company's large inventory list. Why didn't I feel the same way?

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Game Errors

JANUARY 9, 2023

Use Google DNS. Use Google DNS. “ Replace the existing DNS addresses with the following Google DNS addresses: 8.8.8.8 If the aforementioned procedures do not resolve the issue, you may also try going to the website of the company that made your network adapter and downloading the most recent drivers there.

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Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Google made tons of promises that Stadia will break open the streaming games industry and respectfully they did just that then bowed out as quickly as it came in. Lastly, how big tech companies are taking the lead for the game industry and we determine if whether its a good thing or not. 0258: Roundtable News | Stadia Shutting Down.

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