PreMortem.Games

JULY 7, 2023

So, the rest of the companies are generating more revenues. 494 Game companies But Poland has plenty to be pleased with. So, the rest of the companies are generating more revenues. 494 Game companies But Poland has plenty to be pleased with. There are 494 game companies (developers and publishers).

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 15, 2024

Nintendo will not be showing at this year's Gamescom event, the company confirmed to German news site Games Wirtschaft , as spotted by Video Games Chronicle. This year, however, after careful consideration, we decided against taking part in Cologne.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 14, 2024

One rapidly growing model is external development, which sees a studio turn to one or more companies to assist with game creation. In particular, a specific flavour of external development is end-to-end development, which sees an external company oversee an entire segment of a project. ” Read more . ” Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 25, 2024

BlizzCon is taking another break, as Blizzard announced its fan festival will skip this year. After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024," the company said in a blog post. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

During my stay, I had the incredible opportunity to witness Esio, the founder and program coordinator of Africacomicade , take charge of video game industry discussions at Lagos ComicCon and work the room at the tight-knit Xbox game developer community meetup at Microsoft’s Lagos offices. “In 2023, we leveled up in terms of value.”

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We believe that now is the time to take the studio and our future games to the next level," said studio heads Paul Yan and Avery Lodato in a post on the company's website. This opportunity allows us to return to our roots of being a small and nimble studio." Read more

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 12, 2024

In the upcoming first person horror game Dark and Deep players take on the role of an underachieving IT guy who gets caught up in a conspiracy podcast. Woods started his studio Here Below with the vision of becoming the A24 of game companies. I take the approach of a craftsman. I don’t rush and I take pride in it.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It's a perfect storm of issues that has led to this 'great correction', where companies are taking significant measures to change or cut what they're making and what they're spending their money on. The past 12 months have been the bleakest I've seen in video games. We've discussed at lengths the reasons for the situation. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 3, 2024

This year we've got all of last year's participants returning: Niko Partners' Lisa Cosmas Hanson, Midia Research's Karol Severin (offering the firm's take alongside Perry Gresham), Kantan Games' Dr. Serkan Toto, and Ampere Analysis' Piers Harding-Rolls. Serkan Toto, and Ampere Analysis' Piers Harding-Rolls. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 31, 2024

This, however, does not take away from the fact that many of our coworkers are being laid off in a decision we believe will have a negative impact on the working conditions of those who remain with the company, and in the quality of our future games. Read more

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This is not the first major company to take an investment stake in Epic Games with Sony making a $250M investment back in […] The post Disney Make $1.5B GameFromScratch.com Disney Make $1.5B Investment in Epic Games Disney have just announced they are making a $1.5

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In a statement provided to GamesIndustry.biz , the games firm said: "This is a difficult decision that we know impacts passionate communities who have played and enjoyed these games, and we do not take it lightly." "We Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Pokémon Company has issued a statement saying it would look into infringement of its intellectual property after having received inquiries regarding "another company's game released in January 2024." Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 17, 2023

The company will be introducing Google Analytics 4 as a replacement, with many companies taking the opportunity to switch to other traffic analysis tools instead. This decision was made in the context of Google's Universal Analytics being sunset in July. 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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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Working for a company also isn’t preferred, since I really like to have everything in my own hands. Besides, I like having my own company!” It will take a long time to get to that point going solo. was already meant to be a small game, and it is, but it’s still taking me quite long due to skills and life.”

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 1, 2024

A spokesperson tells GamesIndustry.biz that the team were notified yesterday that "minor restructuring" was to take place within the company. Indie studio Radical Forge has been hit with a round of layoffs, with an unspecified number of employees affected.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 13, 2024

What does it take to survive? After I wrote my last post about this mess, a longtime reader wrote me a long, thoughtful, heartfelt, sad email about how much hope I gave him and how much it hurts that I'm taking that away. Times to take big risks. Companies go under. Before we get grim, remember this: The goal is creation.

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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 Take-Two has released its financial results for the second quarter, which show net losses deepening to $543.6 For the three months ended September 30, 2023, the company saw a 111.5%

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2024

Let’s take a look at their games portfolio and performance. We can take inspiration from content going viral on platforms like TikTok and YouTube, and indeed, we have created hit games in 2023 by doing so. We think that recently active companies like HABBY, Supercent, and LoadComplete are also in such a position.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 23, 2024

IGN has shared the first details of its IGN Live consumer show, which is set to take place at the same time E3 used to. Companies set to attend the show include the likes of Amazon, Atari, Netflix and Square Enix. Companies set to attend the show include the likes of Amazon, Atari, Netflix and Square Enix.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 8, 2024

This unique ability, previously unseen in Metroidvania games, represents a significant innovation for the genre that the creators at Canadian indie game company Lucid Dreams Studio so love. “In This is already taking shape, and we are making good progress. We did our research and it turned out that it didn’t. And it works great!”,

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 29, 2024

More and more South-Korean indie game developers take aim at the PC and console market. In a career that spanned many years he worked at eleven different companies, from large overseas corporations to small scale startups. Si-wooks’s deep passion for game development inspired Hee-sang to take a leap of faith.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Top image: Jonas Åkerlund for 30 years Dice The Swedish games industry is booming according to the 2023 Industry Report by Dataspelbranschen , Sweden’s trade association for video game companies. In 2022 Swedish game companies increased revenue by 13% to €3.1 In 2012, a total of just under 300 women worked at game companies in Sweden.

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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.” These experiences instilled in him a profound passion for business and empowering African entrepreneurs.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 15, 2024

Companies are making difficult decisions, often using layoffs as a means to cut costs. Another suggestion was the establishment of a company-sponsored fund for employees. The corporate strategies employed by companies also came under scrutiny. Despite this growth, companies continue to lay off employees en masse.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The two companies will be functioning as one. This Diwali, the CTO, Sumeet Arora , and the CEO, Vijendra Chauhan , made this decision known to the workforce of the two companies. While the strength of the company doubled to over 400 people, the revenue tripled. The two companies are ready to take advantage of synergies.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 13, 2023

She represents two game publishing companies, casual f2p games specialist Tamalaki and Web3 games publisher FGL. “We Utomik Another well known Dutch game tech company is i3D.net. They are a hosting company that specializes in providing high-performance, low-latency infrastructure for real-time entertainment.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 7, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Nearly a quarter of a century ago, in the summer of 1999, a start-up company launched an application which instantly became a global phenomenon.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Looking for a Real Unreal Game Development Company? If you’re looking for an Unreal Game Development Company, there are some key factors to consider in order to make an informed choice. Company’s Portfolio A strong game development portfolio showcases the company’s expertise across various kinds of projects.

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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 Take-Two Interactive today reported its financial results for the quarter ended June 30. Take-Two's earnings report this quarter looks a lot like the last few, with significant gains in revenue and bookings paired with significant losses. Read more

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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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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Given these incredible tailwinds, it’s not surprising that mobile game companies have delivered the vast majority of gaming venture returns in recent years. Pretty weird The vertical slice seed round is usually the first money into the company, and ranges in size from $5M to $50M, with a median amount closer to $10M.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 8, 2024

When you live in a country that houses twenty percent of the entire world’s population, yet hardly see a genuine and honest representation of that country in video games, it’s time to take matters into your own hands. And that’s precisely what Shalin Shodhan is doing with his studio, Masala Games. So we had to build all of that on our own.

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Game Daily

MARCH 30, 2023

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. More likely, it will take complaints by parents, or the likes of TINA, to alert Roblox, to then demand changes to the offending advertising.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 22, 2024

Amidst the vibrant and colorful backdrop of France, players take charge of a special forces unit collaborating with the Resistance to disrupt and sabotage enemy forces before D-Day. We believe very much in the values and culture of our company and have a strong ‘no BS, no politics’ rule. The colour palette was also key.”

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 7, 2023

Annual reports are full of interesting facts companies aren't likely to advertise. This Week in Business is our weekly recap column , a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. Check back every Friday for a new entry.

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