GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 3, 2024

Unity has announced it will no longer be selling or supporting Ziva Dynamics products, and has entered an agreement with VFX and animation studio DNEG to license the software. By focusing on these few areas, we believe we can best serve our community's needs," the company said. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Sources close to the matter told Reuters that Carlyle is exploring either selling the company or publicly listing it. Jagex owner Carlyle Group is reportedly looking to offload the RuneScape developer, two years after its acquisition.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 15, 2024

In a notice posted to the NFT marketplace , the company announced it was in the process of "winding down" operations and will close on February 2, 2024. Past this date, customers won't be able to buy, sell or create NFTs, but they will "remain accessible and saleable through other platforms." Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox TikTok owner ByteDance is reportedly exploring options to sell Shanghai developer Moonton Technology. Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters the company has been meeting with several potential buyers. ByteDance has declined to comment. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 3, 2023

Unsurprisingly, the Japanese company has had a very successful quarter, but hasn't revised its forecast upwards for the full year. Nintendo has had success across the board during its Q1 for FY2024, with Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom selling 18.51 million units as of June 30 (the title released on May 12). Read more

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APRIL 4, 2024

During this process, companies have explored various ways to keep the player engaged with their games. The move to digital media from most companies that grew in prominence from the PS4 era, has always been met with mixed enthusiasm. Let’s look at why physical media is fading and what it means to gamers and game companies.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Valve has announced that it is now selling refurbished Steam Deck devices. The company said that each handheld console has been "thoroughly tested." Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 2, 2023

Reuters is reporting that the European Commission is expected to approve Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard without demanding it sell off parts of the publisher first.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2024

There's really only a few ways the industry can feasibly cut costs - either companies don't hire as many people, enact sizable pay cuts for employees, or both. Many companies have also been looking at utilizing generative AI and other new workflows to reduce the headcount needed to produce games. The other option is to enact pay cuts.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 22, 2023

As announced in a blog post , the company will stop selling its latest version of the hardware this October or until stocks last. Microsoft has ended production of Azure Kinect, the successor to the Xbox peripheral, drawing a line under the motion-sensing camera's lifespan.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

million units of this total, with Spider-Man 2 selling more than 5 million units worldwide as of October 30. Earlier this year, the firm said it planned to sell 25 million PS5 units by the end of the fiscal year. As for Sony's games sector, the company is expecting sales to reach ¥4.36 billion), representing 67.6

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Last year, Microsoft pledged ten-year deals to bring the best-selling shooter series to both Nintendo and Steam if it successfully acquires the franchise and its publisher. Now, Microsoft president Brad Smith has announced on Twitter that a binding ten-year contract has been signed between his company and Nintendo. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 21, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox You'd be forgiven for feeling a little cynical about the sudden explosion of hype around artificial intelligence and LLMs (Large Language Models) that we've seen in the past few weeks; after all, it's once bitten, twice shy, and we've all just spent a couple of years being (..)

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 14, 2023

Switch digital sales are typically much lower than the other platforms, so it's unknown if the game outsold Hogwarts overall (Nintendo doesn't share digital data with the charts companies). It is easily the biggest Zelda launch in history, selling more than 2.7 times the opening week sales of Breath of the Wild from 2017. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 9, 2023

It's the latest escalation of the 2021 court case between the two companies. That fight began with Epic's attempt to sell Fortnite virtual currency directly to iOS users without going through Apple's App Store payments processing system, denying the platform its usual 30% cut of revenues.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 29, 2023

Unity has removed one of its AI-driven partners from the Unity Asset Store after the company was apparently caught selling assets that weren't created by AI but taken from other creators. We've removed Atlas from our @AssetStore as they violated our terms and conditions," Unity said in a Twitter post. "We

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 16, 2023

The regulator prefers structural remedies, such as selling off the Call of Duty IP. Microsoft, Sony and Activision Blizzard's response to the findings have been revealed in full, and repeat many of the arguments that the companies have made already.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2020

To get the Start to Finish series going, I’ve spent some time discussing games, game development, and the amount of careful messaging that is needed to create and sell a great game. You do not have to bend to the will of companies which have their own standards and norms. Selling is really, really hard.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 6, 2024

Photos by Moe the Photographer Like the sturdy belt and shiny buckle Rex Bowden once helped sell as a child, entrepreneurship is woven into the fabric of this co-founder of Africa Games Week (AGW). He always sent me to school with belts or buckles to sell.” Upon his return, Bowden established his first company, Catalyze.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The FTC has cited concerns over the potential for Microsoft to make the best-selling Call of Duty franchise exclusive to its own ecosystem – pointing to the company's decision to do the same with upcoming Bethesda titles such as Starfield – among other things.

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Game Errors

APRIL 10, 2023

In May 2023, Japanese video game developer and publisher Capcom completed 44 years as one of the most successful companies in the industry. But the company is most known for creating two of the best-selling franchises in pop culture: Street Fighter and Resident Evil. Early years Capcom was founded on May 30 1979, as I.R.M.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The advent of cloud computing has enabled several companies to reinvent themselves, either by increasing the value they offer to customers or by creating new businesses. It also includes a marketplace for buying and selling of digital assets, and can run in the cloud through AWS.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 28, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Sony plans to sell 25 million units of PlayStation 5 into retail in the current fiscal year.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 5, 2023

This connection can be simply because these companies simply have more time/budget for marketing therefore a better chance at success, or maybe changing your store page can help you get more success. Assuming all changes are expected to be an improvement and help the game sell better, we could call it optimization.

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Game Daily

MARCH 30, 2023

This massive, highly engaged audience has attracted the attention of brands , eager to sell their wares, many of which are aimed at children. But as a publicly traded company, and facing a media that is waking up to Roblox’s immense cultural footprint, the company is looking for ways to protect its reputation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

Is it the artwork in itself that is not selling the game? Sell their game to a safe harbor, such as Apple Arcade, Netflix, or similar. Join one of the few powerful game companies taking over mobile. A big win for companies like Xsolla. Or is it just that visibility is dead - even with featuring? Exit mobile.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 22, 2021

A publishing company would take care of some or all of that for you, freeing up a lot of your bandwidth and allowing you to focus on other games. If you do this, you can sell directly to your list through a traditional online product launch. They also sell a lot of board games. Can you tell I wrote that paragraph before COVID?

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Selling is one of the most nerve-wracking and technical parts of getting a small business off the ground. Selling is hard to learn even in the best conditions. If your game is brilliant, it’ll be way easier to sell than if it’s so-so. Need help on your board game? The Fundamentals. The reviews will be better.

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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. Zero interest rates meant companies didn't need to turn a profit. There will again be a great time to start a new game company. Selling out to Epic.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The Avalon team is led by chief product officer Jeffrey Butler, one of the original producers for EverQuest and its first expansions, alongside Sean Pinnock, formerly CEO of virtual reality gaming company CyberDream, best known for Virtual Battlegrounds. Fluid importing According to the company, the game “is governed by its users.

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Moonmana

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Unity has long been a company operating at a loss, allocating more resources to marketing and promoting its engine than to the engine itself. The new features didn’t rescue the situation with the company stagnation. The financial situation has significantly worsened not only in Unity but also in many global companies.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Pitch your ridiculous companies. What do board game retailers want to see in a company ? Molly: Yeah, you said “in a game” and I’m gonna say more like, “in your games or in your company.” A lot of small indie companies only have one printing of a game, and then they start to have another print run of another game.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 1, 2024

On the down side, we're a tiny company with no budget. If people don't want what I like to play, I'll quit this business and sell shoes." Your Kickstarter serves as a fancy sort of presale, with extra money earned by selling to high level backers. It's an unusual, unique, innovative game made with a budget of basically zero.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 28, 2023

Sell a stake in the studio. Several studios will do contract work for other companies to pay the bills and fund the development of their own projects. The most common ways I've seen for studios to stay running between releases are: Take out loans. The studio can then use that money to pay for development.

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Game Daily

JUNE 5, 2023

Stephenson’s open metaverse blockchain company, Lamina1, announced a partnership with Web3 game publisher Interverse, which is creating an NFT cartoon shooting game called Degen Royale. Getting paid for metaverse work is much less simple than taking a solid salary at a top games company. At Augmented World Expo (AWE) last week.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2024

There may hence be a widespread belief that once a player has made a purchase, it will be easy to sell them more and bigger packs. Question 12: Many apps sell premium upgrades at different prices in different countries. A clear majority of 61.1% In a cross-platform free-to-play future that becomes all the more important!

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So… for a moment, let’s put aside the fact that the purpose of a publicly traded company like most AAA game publishers (Nintendo, Ubisoft, Take Two, EA, Activision, Sony, Microsoft, etc.) Getting a spokesman or celebrity to help sell your game costs money. If we sell things digitally, we’re getting a bigger slice of the pie.

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