GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 15, 2023

The firm's Erik Peterson will be sharing insight into how video games actually get serviced on the hugely popular PC digital store. He joins big name speakers at the event including Shawn Layden, the former head of PlayStation's studios and current advisor to companies such as Tencent.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 6, 2023

Kabam's official website bills the company as "The best in mobile gaming," but the publisher behind Marvel Contest of Champions and Disney Mirrorverse is increasingly looking beyond the world of tablets and smartphones. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 3, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The US Congresswoman leading efforts to learn more about how the games industry is dealing with the rise of extremism in online multiplayer games has expressed frustration at the response from leading publishers and platform holders. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Chinese regulators approved 87 new video game licenses in February. South China Morning Post reported that Tencent and NetEase were among the companies that received a green light for titles. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Based in the heart of Edmonton, Canada, Inflexion Games is gearing up for the release of their debut title Nightingale. A shared-world survival crafting game set to hit PC Early Access early next year. ​​”For us, it’s almost the beginning of the journey. We’ll continue to grow and expand the game in the months and years to come.”

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APRIL 12, 2023

In February, Ilkka Paananen, the beloved CEO of Supercell, and arguably one of the faces on the Mount Rushmore of Mobile Games Executives, published his yearly blog post. FRUSTRATION: These blog posts can also annoy game executives and senior leaders. After all, Supercell is our beacon of hope. Hay Day has exceeded $2B. Both amazing.”

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The publisher stated that the ongoing experience of Apex Legends Mobile—developed in partnership with Tencent and Lightspeed—“was not going to meet the expectations of our players” despite a “strong start”. Star Rating on iOS and was elected Game of the Year on both the App Store and Google Play.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 6, 2023

The success of The Last of Us is, according to analysts, more than just a successful adaptation of a gaming franchise; it is the culmination of Sony’s gradual transition to becoming a media company. PSVR2 More broadly, Sony’s combined operating income for games, music, and pictures accounts for roughly 48 percent of its total.

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MAY 31, 2020

Last week Tencent and Pokemon unveiled Pokemon Unite , a jointly-developed cross-platform MOBA for smartphones and Nintendo Switch. As commentary, I wrote: “Yes, Tencent already owns the biggest MOBA franchises on PC (League of Legends) and mobile (Honor of Kings). You can sign up to the newsletter at the bottom of this text.

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JULY 12, 2020

Supercell in Decline Earlier this month, Ilkka Paananen, Supercell’s CEO talked about key learnings from his company on their 10 year anniversary: 10 Learnings from 10 Years. The lessons are not typical: “hire slowly”, “play the infinite game”, “replace control with trust”, etc. Tencent got screwed investing in them.”

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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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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. Unreal Engine can be used by other game developers, as well as by film and television and other industries.

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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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JANUARY 17, 2023

State of the Mobile Games Market The Western mobile games market , which we broadly analyze by removing the Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean markets from the numbers, saw overall installs climb by 14% to 47.5B And unlike Racing, Shooter games also generally saw a decline in downloads as well.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

TWIG #219 TakeTwo Zynga Acquisition - perhaps the most ill-advised acquisition in gaming of all time ? TWIG 220 The problem with Kotaku and why Xbox Game Pass is the doom written by: Eric Kress and David Sepetka The Microsoft-Activision deal is back in the headlines with the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s latest report.

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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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APRIL 4, 2023

We dive into decline of hypercasual games and hybridcasual, an attempt by mobile game developers to adapt to the new normal in the industry. Former Disney and NBCU Execituve Talk the Death of the Games-as-App Before going deeper, let us define the terms: Hypercasual games are the bubble gum of the gaming industry.

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JUNE 6, 2023

This week, we jump into what it takes to design great Match 3 games and how we would improve Makeover Match. Case: Makeover Match Making games is hard. As player expectations rise and market conditions become more challenging, creating a successful game and maintaining that success is becoming increasingly difficult.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 26, 2024

This week Embracer announced that it is going to split into three separate publicly-listed game companies: Asmodee Group, Coffee Stain & Friends, and Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends. Clearly, the Swedish gaming conglomerate was struggling in its form as a federation of different projects and properties.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 16, 2023

After its rapid rise to become Europe’s largest and most valuable game publisher, Embracer suffered a $2 billion loss on the eve of its most recent earnings and woke up this week to a company-wide restructuring plan. The plan had been to become an IP portfolio company and combine it with a slew of channels (e.g.,

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JULY 24, 2023

You might know Playrix as the company that entered market segments dominated by King (Candy Sagas) and Supercell (Hay Day) only to beat both at what they are great at. Instead, we’ll be talking about how Playrix outperformed most of the games industry in their ability to work from home efficiently and at scale. Source: Data.ai

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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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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that it will cease operation of its games in China beginning on January 23, 2023. “Their enthusiasm and creativity inspire us, and we are looking for alternatives to bring our games back to players in the future.”

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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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JANUARY 22, 2020

Not even a year has passed since we did our predictions on Action games in 2019. 2019 continued this trend, with PUBG Mobile still being the #1 game on mobile. This sector is so unique versus action games, and one that has been growing quickly. you can find the previous predictions here. Let’s dive in. While some developers (ex.

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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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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. To date, Supercell has created multiple genre-defining games and generated billions in revenues -- all with little more than 300 employees (!). Our short answer is no.

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Game Daily

MARCH 5, 2023

Barely a day goes by without negative news coverage slicing another cut into metaverse hype, either in the form of a big company backing away from previous enthusiasm, or a thundering editorial declaring the entire concept to be yet another tech dead-end. ” Still, the commercial metaverse continues to take a beating in the media.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

TWIG 220 The problem with Kotaku and why Xbox Game Pass is the doom Missed a previous newsletter? The Real Danger of the Microsoft's Activision Deal & 2023 Predictions for Blockchain Games. An acquisition on these terms would represent a 55% premium on the Finnish company’s closing share price the day prior.

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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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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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JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. This is because we don’t want to reduce the actionability of the data with games that succeed massively in what can be described as closed domestic markets. The money you save on platform fees will go directly into further improving and growing your games.

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

Written by Enrico D'Angelo Enrico was VP of Product at Activision Publishing running the Free to Play game portfolio and is currently a VP of Product at Roblox. The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project.

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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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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 ). Legends of Runeterra is Riot’s new card game.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Kooyman's experience in gaming spans 15 years and includes being part of the Miniclip executive team before it was acquired by Tencent. In the coming years, various industries, including gaming, legal, and marketing, will witness specific roles becoming obsolete as tasks that once took weeks can now be accomplished within hours.

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