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AUGUST 22, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Rocket Science has expanded to Europe as its established a new headquarters in the capital of Wales. With the new location, the company aims to support European clients and expand its market presence. Read more

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Grumpy Gamer

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Please explain to me why the wealthiest company in the world still has the same open bugs year after year after year. it's not rocket science. Apple is never going to fix #1 if you keep praising #2. Why would they? Hire some more programmers. My day-to-day home use as moved to Linux. but Linux is also a mess.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2020

The most common metrics gaming companies focus on are Day-1, Day-7, and Day-30 retention rate. Day-1 retention rate rocketed from 26% to 57%, and Day-7 retention improved from 9% to 32%. At the same time, the company couldn’t follow up their success with Idle Miner Tycoon simply because the market got stuffed with clones.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

The rockets of 2019, Say Games and Good Job Games, ran out of steam last year. That’s the sweet science. In fact, throughout 2020, some companies making games using different core mechanics have slowly started becoming successful (>$0.5M Voodoo’s growth in 2020 was incredibly impressive. And the winner is. So is that it?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

What are the biggest challenges and mistakes made by early stage companies when first attempting to scale? Why not ask some of the people who were there as founders, investors, and key executives at those very companies? We'll also talk about kind of this difference between creative versus data driven companies.

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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.

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