GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 25, 2023

Riot Games has received a ransom email after hackers stole source code for League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics. The attack also targeted its legacy anticheat platform, the company said in a tweet explaining the incident. Needless to say, we won't pay," Riot said of the ransom email.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This article originally appeared on his Substack Game Stuff. Specialist VC firms that fund game development are a relatively new phenomenon. Given these incredible tailwinds, it’s not surprising that mobile game companies have delivered the vast majority of gaming venture returns in recent years.

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Game Errors

JULY 4, 2023

Riot Games is a famous game development company known for creating the popular online multiplayer games League of Legends and Valorant. The Riot Client is the launcher and platform Riot Games uses to manage and update their games, including LoL.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 13, 2022

LabCom tackles video games PR in Italy, for the likes of Riot Games, Konami and Bethesda, among others. It was founded in 2005 by Marco Giannatiempo, who is still heading the company and its 16 staff. Read more.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In the new episode of the DoF podcast, we have the honour of hearing from Jordan Mazer , Head of Talent at a16z Games. Jordan has over ten years of expertise in human resources and talent acquisition, and his outstanding career path has included stops at Amazon, Scopely, Riot, and, most recently, a16z. Their mission?

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Game Refinery

JULY 27, 2022

Year after year, more and more game companies have started to participate in Pride celebrations. Zooba: Zoo Battle Royale Games (Wildlife Studios). “Faye,” is the first transgender character in Zooba: Zoo Battle Royale Games. League of Legends: Wild Rift (Riot Games). Multiple games by Zynga.

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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 ? Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. ✉️ Received this email from a friend?

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 4, 2024

There’s the understandable dismay about people losing their jobs, which I, too, believe is detrimental to the long-term health of the video games industry. Rather than taking on temp workers and running them ragged, game makers now absorb higher costs by letting go of regular employees and argue that the cost of development has gone up.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The k-factor, which measures the virality of a game, is at an all-time low. 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. This was an easy prediction.

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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. Programming includes sessions led by Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers such as Riot Games, Epic Games, and Nintendo Systems.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

in market capitalization, Amazon is the most valuable company in the world. Further, the company has arguably the highest defensive barriers to its business than any other company in the world. However, when we look at gaming companies, we don’t see the same level of defensibility that we see for companies in other industries.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 17, 2023

I had the fortune of going through the full startup cycle in terms of starting a company, raising funds, building a team, and even exiting. In our podcast with my friend, the powerful Joseph Kim ( GameMakers , LILA Games ), he asked me what were the biggest lessons I've learned and if there was anything that I’d do differently.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2020

Yes, Tencent/Riot are still planning on launching [LoL: Wild Rift] on both mobile and console. Tencent has various internal game development studios, but two stand out in particular as the most successful to date: TiMi and Quantum/Lightspeed. No, Tencent does not care about cannibalization, so long as its own children win in the end.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Veteran Technical Director James Marr Answers: What Makes A Great Game Engineer? More than ever, user acquisition teams must rely on machine learning and AI to find the right audiences for their games and apps. This week, we dive into how to adapt creatives to a changing privacy landscape. TWIG #213 THE SEASON FINALE! ? Subscribe here!

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

We follow up and expand upon the Playtika and social casino-discussion that took part in the latest “This week in games”-podcast by going through the latest earnings reports from Playtika (you can find the link to the podcast below) On the go? Kress’s Corner #2 How do gaming Venture Capitalist really work? Eager to play a new game? ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 7, 2023

CSGO is a decade-old game at this point, with a stable playerbase and a vibrant market economy. As such, it serves as a great example of what a mature game marketplace looks like, a model example showcasing classic economic effects that apply as expected in games. You can catch more of him on the Game Economist Podcast ?️

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 2, 2021

Written by Anette Staloy , co-founder of Women in Games Norway and Chief Marketing Officer at Dirtybit, and Tiffany Keller , Director of Product at Sybo and mentor at Game Changers. What was positive about the dark moment is how the games industry came together and showed support. Several organizations provide guidance.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2020

Some of the best ideas in the gaming industry were inspired by other games and sometimes even created within other games. In our taxanomy, Auto-Chess games don’t yet have their own bubble. The Very Brief History of Auto Chess Games. Please take the numbers with a giant grain of salt.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This week, we dive into the games that are defying headwinds from the recent economic slowdown in every category. We review the game of the week: Talking Tom Time Rush from Outfit7 ✉️ Received this email from a friend? These are the Mobile Games Defying Economic Headwinds — and Why In data.ai In Today’s Email ? Subscribe here!

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Almost 2 years ago, the entire games industry was amazed by the announcement of a gigantic $55M seed round raised by Spyke Games. Many successful game company founders would jump on the chance to exit with $55 million, let alone receiving it as seed investment. Spyke Games is playing it safe and getting results.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

Pham and Max delved deep into the world of indie game development, discussing everything from the inception of the game to its surprising success. He was immediately drawn to the team’s ambition to create a game that could provide the same exhilarating experiences as larger games, but with the capacity to run on low-end hardware.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2023

This week, in the changing economic environment, we take a look at the recent consolidation of blockchain gaming to weather tough times ahead. ? Deconstructor of Fun has teamed up with MY.GAMES, AWS, Unity, Data.ai, and Google to supercharge the Game Drive accelerator program. They even had to fend off AppLovin to complete the deal !

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 20, 2020

Riot’s Team Fight Tactics (TFT) was launched quickly to catch the emerging auto-chess genre that was gaining popularity as a mod on Twitch. Riot for sure succeeded in shipping fast, but they clearly didn’t pay much attention on the business case for the game. The game has grossed only around $4M in net revenue since launch.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 27, 2022

2022 GAMES AWARDS: And the winner is… The Biggest News Item of 2022 Looking back, 2021 was truly booming in terms of game news. War, inflation, rising interest rates, recession struggle of performance marketing all influenced the games business that these days isn’t quite as recession-proof as it was back in 2008.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

This analysis is written by my friend, Buğrahan Göker who focused on 4X games, and Yours Truly. Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Strategy games also represent nearly a half of all Mid-Core revenues.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Announcing Legends of Runeterra A few weeks ago, Riot Games, creators of the megahit League of Legends, announced their new card game, Legends of Runeterra as a part of their 10-year anniversary announcement (read: Riot's 7 new games are a declaration of war against Blizzard ). So, in the meantime, what do we know?

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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? TWiG #231 - Xbox Admits Defeat in the Console Wars + Riot & Activision Gender Discrimination Lawsuits How did Metacore land one of Hollywood's hottest stars at the absolute peek of his fame?

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 21, 2022

In the past, fans debated which would be the winner gaming platform among many warring ones, with every new generation bringing in new contenders (Sony, Microsoft…) and removing some (like Sega or Atari). In 2022, it’s undebatable that the main gaming platform chosen by most people in the world is their smartphone.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

Today, we dive into the critical components of game markets needed to make them fun, and applicable in web 3.0 How to Plan and Nurture Your Career in Games - with Sophie Vo and Mishka Katkoff (Rise & Play podcast) ✉️ Received this email from a friend? Designing Game Markets to be Fun Markets are increasingly a component of games.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 7, 2022

That’s why Spectrum Labs’ content moderation AI is used by developers like Riot Games and Wildlife Studios to guard against toxic and illegal behavior. In other words: Spectrum Labs helps you grow your gaming platform without needing to hire an army of Trust & Safety moderators each step of the way.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 2, 2023

And although there’s no official confirmation yet, recent hiring and community buzz points out that the game is getting ready for a global launch. That was Riot Games’ playbook with TFT and Wild Rift. But are we putting too much weight on the tiny shoulders of the Minis…? A deep analysis doesn’t show a clear path to success.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

AAA game franchises are in the middle of a renaissance on mobile. These games have a huge leg up in terms of organic downloads. TiMi’s first major project was a title that their parent company, Tencent, had asked Riot Games to create. billion in 2018, making it the highest-earning mobile game of 2018.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Our 2021 predictions have been sponsored by Facebook Gaming. Facebook Gaming helps developers and publishers to build, grow, and monetize their games. Role-Playing Games on Mobile The RPG market is a high risk, high reward genre walled by a robust entry barrier. But the squeeze is worth the juice.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

Xsolla has dedicated tools that will help you create your own online commerce platform, improve your performance marketing and discoverability, and expand your game business on mobile and PC. Clash Mini is one of the three Clash games Supercell announced in April of 2021. As expected from Supercell, Clash Quest is a polished game.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 26, 2023

This blog details the service launches, customer sessions, and partner announcements most relevant to game developers. Service Launches Across more than 100 service launches from Amazon Web Services (AWS) at re:Invent, these are the top services for developers to build, run, and grow their games. Watch the re:Invent breakout session.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 26, 2023

The realms of gaming and the film industry are coming together in a harmonious convergence, as the technology and expertise of both fields are being shared and utilized to create impressive results. This was the primary discussion during the latest episode where I invited the accomplished filmmaker and game designer HaZ Dulull.

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