Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 15, 2024

We couldn't pass up the opportunity to sit down with Elena and discuss her new role, the company, and her perspective on industry trajectories. Elena provides a comprehensive look at My.Games through a SWOT analysis, highlighting the company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Strengths: The Team.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 8, 2024

While there certainly are games which feature India as a setting, both from Indian studios and international companies, they tend to focus on fantasy or mythical aspects of the nation. He worked on some of the most well known entertainment IP during his time in the US.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 4, 2024

Following another big week in terms of headcount reductions, interactive entertainment is on track to shed a record number of jobs in 2024. As his own tenure comes to a close, Jim Ryan, President & CEO at Sony Interactive Entertainment, found himself tasked with announcing an 8 percent workforce reduction. Take Sony, for example.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 25, 2024

Passive income Concerning games that go beyond entertainment, Kiragu states, “This is something I battle with every day. I see a situation where the company is big enough to run on its own.” Kiragu sees acquisition by a larger company as a viable exit strategy. Innovation is good, but it shouldn’t hold you back.

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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. The returns at this point are nothing to write home about. The lack of success means they’ve missed on both.

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Game Daily

MARCH 21, 2023

A quick search of last year’s hot ticket words “Web3” and “metaverse” on this year’s Game Developer Conference’s session calendar reveals that the vast majority of returned matches are sponsored sessions, which is not a good sign. These paid-for sessions are like paid advertisements in magazines.

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Game Daily

JULY 12, 2023

While gaming claims a central place in modern popular culture and entertainment, its most powerful custodians are badly neglecting the form’s heritage, according to a new report issued this week. Game companies are rarely interested in preserving the past – even their own particular past. But what if it didn’t HAVE to be?

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Big Games

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Whether you’re a casual gamer looking for some entertainment or a dedicated hardcore game enthusiast, today, we have curated a list of the best high-graphics games for Android just for you. Casual Gamers For casual gamers, these high-graphic Android games offer fantastic entertainment with relatively simple gameplay.

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Game Daily

JUNE 9, 2023

Perhaps it was inevitable that those companies willing to tether themselves to this lumbering zombie would be the ones least able to conjure much in the way of life and originality. For the biggest entertainment business in the world to generate something so insipid and unentertaining is a noteworthy achievement.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Recent reports include one from Skillprint (a company dedicated to science-based gaming), another from the Entertainment Software Association, and – about a year ago – a one from the National Institute of Health. These too performed well, in line with the results returned from playing games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

Join one of the few powerful game companies taking over mobile. While the platforms’ value offering has significantly decreased game companies who account for 70% of app store revenues continue to pay the same percentage. A big win for companies like Xsolla. These companies aren't dead. Exit mobile. Discovery is dead.

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The Bottom Feeder

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The financial statement for a fun little company called Unity. Unity is a publicly-held company with tons and tons of employees. Unity's pricing changes and careful cost-cutting enables the company to return to profitability. This is a slow-motion heart attack that is going to affect a lot of companies.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Announcing the deal in a blog post , GameMaker head Russell Kay referenced rival engine Unity’s recent turbulent experience with price changes, that enraged developers and led to the departure of company chief John Riccitiello. “Our success is measured by the number of people making games!”

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OPM Jobs

MARCH 31, 2023

Slowly companies started to realise they were ignoring a huge potential audience. People want to be seen and accepted as they are and the way to do it is to make sure that they are represented in all different forms of media and entertainment – including games. And that audience began realising that they deserve that representation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

He's also a mentor, advisor, and board member at numerous influential companies. Why Do Game Companies Venture Into M&A? Let's kick off our exploration by understanding why game companies dive into the realm of M&A. Game companies are inherently wired to push boundaries and keep evolving.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 1, 2023

Your mechanics should be intuitive, easy to understand and deep and engaging enough to keep players returning for more. Logic Simplified, the top game development company in Dehradun, has an experienced team of game designers for hire that use the best game development engines for clients to build thrilling, entertaining and engaging games.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 9, 2023

Delventhal advocates for a “return to renaissance,” a more decentralized and diverse industry that nurtures smaller studios. Disrupting Education: Game Design’s Role in Shaping Future Learning The influence of game developers extends beyond the realm of entertainment.

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Game Daily

MARCH 5, 2023

The company pointed out that the “interactive experience” was aimed at “the global Roblox community of over 52 million daily users” A few months on, and only a tiny number of those daily users are bothering to visit Walmart Land. People may visit at one time, but never come back.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Many successful game company founders would jump on the chance to exit with $55 million, let alone receiving it as seed investment. The co-founders of the company come from Peak, Zynga, and Riot, where some held co-founder or key team roles. How to keep your players engaged 24/7?

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Filmustage

JULY 14, 2023

Cost-effective: Compared to traditional marketing methods, digital film marketing can be much more cost-effective, providing a greater return on investment. With online platforms, your film promotion isn't limited by geographical boundaries.

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AWS Games

JUNE 15, 2023

Epic Games (Epic) is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of Unreal Engine (UE), one of the most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tools that powers some of the world’s leading games including Fortnite, and is also utilized by creators across industries to deliver cutting-edge experiences.

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iXie gaming

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Since NFT games cannot be returned, more individuals are searching for them. Physical possession makes a blockchain-based game more entertaining to play and can be a reliable source of revenue. And for B2B, the game must have APIs that web2 companies can use. NFT assets are valuable and in high demand. For Gamers.

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Big Games

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Many of the game development companies have made incredible games, however, there are few games that haven’t made it in the market. . The custom music has the magic of transforming the game into a whole new entertainment treat for the players. And with iPads, the players can feel the mood and vibe of the game. . Conclusion.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

No matter what happens with mobile games, will find, and invest in new distribution platforms to entertain billions around the world. So make sure to forward it inside your company. The Mobile Games Market has Matured The market returned to growth. Gaming is a logical cost efficient choice for most entertainment per dollar.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Even as creatives in other entertainment industries continue to fight to make fair wages, a new front has opened in gaming as developers figure out what to do about Unity’s new fee structure. Large platform companies often initially subsidize third-party content creators to ensure widespread adoption of their technical standards.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 23, 2023

It’s the company’s first new franchise in 25 years, and is likely one of the biggest games of the year. Company head Todd Howard was on hand to boost the game’s appeal to an enthusiastic opening night crowd. The more we learned, the clearer it became that this city was a perfect setting for a game. .”

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

While these assets don’t have the returns of traditional investments, they grow in popularity largely due to the “fun” factor. If you replaced Gamestop with a staid company like Sherwin-Williams Paint, retail traders would show far less interest. Volatility by itself is entertaining. What makes a market game “fun”?

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk. One day I discovered video games could be much more than just ‘entertainment products’, and fell in love with the idea of mixing all the things I loved about art in a new medium.

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Game Dev Unchained

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

“We’ve definitely just had a return to the office here… But the icing on the cake there is that we did have to return to the office this week, but we’re onto a four-day work week, which is great,” he says, providing a glimpse into the evolving work-life balance within the gaming sphere.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 8, 2023

The most typical scenario of engaging with co-development are: Big companies that want to grow the scope of their game, by say adding a new mode. Yet quite oftentimes what happens is that the studio’s investment, in terms of funds, doesn’t return. And the quality of the game shows! It’s fun to play. Looks polished.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Supercell is one of the rare companies that doesn’t try to beat the competition; rather, it tries to beat the high score set by its own prior games. Out of all the gaming companies out there, Supercell is one of the few capable of shipping consecutive monster hits. Our short answer is no. Cover image: Talouselämä. #1

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 18, 2023

This week, now that the big news on Rovio is confirmed, we look at the question on the industry’s mind — what’s next for the company under Sega? Before the acquisition, Playtika had tabled a €750 million ($810 million) bid for Rovio, though talks collapsed last month with no reasons provided by either company. USD Rovio: 24.9M

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 4, 2017

I run a small independent tabletop games publishing company called Smunchy Games. Many people dream of becoming as large as companies likes Blizzard Entertainment or Wizards of the Coast. Though we are a tabletop games company, we are already starting to work on novels and novellas for each of these worlds.

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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. In my opinion, this is a herculean task for any company. Marketing Play?

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Game Daily

JUNE 1, 2023

The average FIFA player returned to the game 33 percent of days in March. As Ampere points out, they are up against a formidable array of consumer options including other games of the same genre, in-device competitors, multi-platform options and, of course, time-sinks like social media and other entertainments.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And when the lesson comes from a company known for its superb quality like Supercell, there’s even more to think about. A low Lifetime Value per User (LTV) puts more weight on having a low Cost per Install (CPI) to get a positive Return Over Advertising Spending (ROAS). In theory, an IP could help lower a bit the CPIs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We can say with more confidence than ever that gaming is at the heart of media and entertainment. This is most likely the key question in the boardrooms of these companies. But the sales are still high enough to return the investment handsomely. That is why the growth of the subscription base is so important for the company.

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