GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Twitch has laid off employees for the second time this year. A source familiar with the situation told GamesIndustry.biz that today's layoffs were limited to the customer experience organization as the company shifts to rely more on outsourcing vendors to fulfill those roles. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 17, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Emmett Shear, CEO and co-founder of Twitch, has resigned from the company. In a lengthy statement shared on Twitter, Shear said he was stepping down to spend more time with family following the birth of his first child. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 20, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Amazon is poised to lay off 9,000 employees throughout its company, and staffers at streaming service Twitch are among the affected.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 19, 2023

San Francisco-based tech company Scenario has raised $6 million ahead of the early access launch of its Gen AI Engine. Scenario's Gen AI Engine aims to provide game developers with "style-consistent game art" via artificial intelligence trained by the artists themselves.

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Keith Burgun

MAY 16, 2022

Today I bring you one of the world’s more renowned strategy videogame designers – the designer of Civilization IV , one of the most beloved in the series (probably my favorite one still), and the founder of Mohawk Games, who created Offworld Trading Company , and most recently, Old World. Alpha launches this Friday.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 17, 2023

While getting coverage on media sites like IGN or Game Informer won’t guarantee immediate sales, it helps establish your company’s profile and attracts the attention of investors and gamers alike. Publishers often look for studios and games featured on these platforms.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 4, 2024

Sony’s layoffs, while bitter, are hardly unique and very much in line with announcements from Epic Games, Microsoft, Riot Games, Twitch, and Unity. Companies have come to rely on the efficiencies gained by regularly tightening budgets and headcounts between peak demand cycles and major releases.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 12, 2023

When a company sinks hundreds of millions into an ARPG, the income from long term addicts and whales are the goal. This is based on my experience and a bunch of Twitch watching. When I watched high-end Diablo 4 players on Twitch, what really struck me was how dead the players' eyes were.) But this is the goal.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 31, 2023

Companies like Blizzard and Valve have been trying to make it happen for years and to some extent have already succeeded with products like the Wow Tokens or the Steam Workshop. As leaders, we tend to believe that we are responsible for everything that happens around us: company outcomes, actions, and behavior of others.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 11, 2023

Thanks to remote work, I was able to be hired by companies beyond my city, working with professionals from all over the country and beyond. Even now I see some teams at my company slip back into old patterns - people commute into the office, put their noise-canceling headphones on, and then struggle to get work done.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I Watched a Bunch of Steam Next Fest Demos on Twitch Indie games mainly exist to mix, match, and utterly strip-mine existing genres. Interest rates going up, pressuring companies to actually become profitable. As always, wishlisting an upcoming indie game you support is hugely appreciated. It’s around 6 hours long.

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iXie gaming

MAY 23, 2023

Sponsorships, advertising, and media rights are the primary sources of revenue for eSports, with major companies like Coca-Cola, Intel, and Red Bull investing in eSports to reach a younger audience. The Economy of eSports: The economy of eSports is complex, with multiple sources of revenue and a variety of stakeholders.

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

” “I’m the founder and CEO of Strange Loop Games,” began Krajewski, detailing his journey from working on AAA titles at prominent companies like EA and Midway to establishing his own remote studio. The conversation shifted from the nuances of game development to the larger, looming concept of the “metaverse.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 29, 2024

History It all started as Cash King — a one-button Wheel of Fortune social casino game released in 2010 on Facebook, created by Israeli company Jelly Button (later acquired by Playtika and renamed Pirate Kings.) Then in 2016 another Israeli company, Moon Active, launched Coin Master on mobile featuring Pigs, Vikings, and Coins.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 26, 2022

I mean, this is a trademark feature of a major, major game series being published by only, like, the biggest software company in the world. I could make a cheap shots here about how this symbolizes Twitch's attitude towards its streamers. Then, in September, 2022, they canceled it completely.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

Fink shared that the team plans to host open development talks every Saturday on Twitch, where they would discuss new features and gain valuable player input. According to Max, “Some other game company did release a game that people didn’t want that way, and our game blew up.”

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2020

Looking at Twitch data, Riot’s Teamfight Tactics (perhaps the strongest of these games) broke into the top 10 of most viewed games in the last 6 months. Top 10 Games by Total Hours Watched on Twitch – last 180 days (source: www.sullygnome.com). Teamfight Tactics Total Hours Watched on Twitch (source: www.sullygnome.com).

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Diverse Competition: Innovations were highly distributed amongst many different companies In this past age of the video games industry, we can broadly describe this age as defined by enablement: new genres and new capabilities largely powered by advancing technology. There’s quite a few conventional broadcasters that are involved.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

Over time, you build up a brand, both for your company and your individual products and services. Branding is a nebulous concept that makes people think of logos and company names. A brand is pretty much anything – a product, a company, a person – that has a consistent message to share with a defined audience.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 17, 2022

the short term, this is bad news that will put in jeopardy the plans of many companies, particularly those that were self-funded or will require another funding round soon. Investors are not necessarily interested in the actual profitability or success of the company, but only in the price evolution of the game assets (tokens, NFTs…).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2020

He actively promotes Godot Engine and other FOSS tools during livestreams on Twitch by showing viewers the creative process. He’s one of the company directors of Canopy Games Ltd and the author and instructor of the Discovering Godot and Godot Getaway courses. Currently he's working on his video game Hellrule.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2019

he runs his own Godot consulting company Prehensile Tales. He has a tremendous passion for video games and FOSS which is shared with the world through livestreams of his work process on Twitch. Aside from maintaining Godot's stable branches and doing all the official builds for 3.1, Davide Cristini is a proud FOSS supporter.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He actively promotes Godot Engine and other FOSS tools during livestreams on Twitch by showing viewers the creative process. Aleksandar Gavrilović (Croatia) is the CEO of Gamechuck , a Croatian video game company. He has been contributing to Godot for some years and providing consultancy about it. Jeremiah A.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

A lot of tabletop game Kickstarters, however, come from people who are: a) representing established companies who use Kickstarter effectively as a pre-order system b) repeat campaigners who have already succeeded c) developers who have done a ton of research and know what they’re getting into. It’s way too easy to screw up.

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Game Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

Initially, the company struggled to compete in a hyper-competitive global market, and in a development sector that lacks sophisticated off the shelf game engines. Now owned by Australian company iCandy, Flying Sheep has turned towards a Web3 model for its next project, Star Life. ” Flying Sheep was acquired by iCandy June 2022.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

So make sure to forward it inside your company. Time spent on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Snap, and Twitch has grown exponentially and is eating away from other sources of entertainment. Companies that embrace change are the future winners. I used it to draw many of my hypotheses. Will you arrive at the same? Gaming included.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Free to play MMORPGs made in Asia somehow failed to get a foothold in the West, while Western companies refused to make free to play games for their own markets or Asia. Drive word of mouth marketing centered around Twitch streamers to cover core RPG players Amazon’s campaign for Lost Ark on Twitch is unprecedented.

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

That is not a thing they [companies] want. Interestingly, a connection was drawn between Kickstarter and the surge of streaming platforms like Twitch. The idea of supporting creators directly, as seen on Twitch through donations, possibly traces its roots back to Kickstarter. Remote working?

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 17, 2017

Even that was an exaggeration because there’s not much wrong with the company I was working for anyway (though I did move into a better job in IT for a hospital). Thankfully, I had a very strong social media presence on Twitter and Instagram as well as a strong presence in some Twitch communities. After War Co.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 2, 2020

Because you can play online, you get the tremendous opportunity to livestream your game with people who have a good size audience on Twitch or YouTube. The guy behind this company runs the Pangea Games social media, and he’s become really, really talented with Tabletop Simulator. It’s great for publicity.

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Game Daily

JULY 14, 2023

After all, the ESA is tasked with representing the political and collective public-facing interests of game companies. Each year, the Entertainment Software Association releases a raft of stats about video game consumption in the United States, that speaks to the growing popularity and positivity of gaming.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 26, 2018

Live-streaming can be done through services such as Twitch, YouTube, and Mixer. Like many other forms of media, once you build up an audience, you can talk about your product or company. Once you get that hard-won audience, though, you can use blog to push people to landing pages related to your products or company.

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Grid Sage Games

JUNE 30, 2023

on my own server and with my own settings and design) rather than making a home under the umbrella of some other company where we’d be subject to their whims over the long term. The good old GSG forums!

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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. If this wasn’t a Riot’s game, we’d deem it as a commercial failure by now, because very few companies can turn the boat around at this point. After four months TFT has $.43 A new way to engage.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 19, 2022

You can watch the full video here: Two weeks later on May 18th 2022, Growth Lead Jeff “Jihoz” Zirlin gave the following statistics for Origin on a Twitch Dev Chat : 535,000 total unique devices 599,000 total unique accounts 268,000 monthly active users 160,000 weekly active users You can watch that conversation here on Twitch.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

The biggest acquisition in the sub-genre happened last year, with Applovin acquiring Machine Zone - the company that made some of the most iconic top-grossing 4X games of all time (Game of War, Modern Strike, Final Fantasy: New Empire). Yet the success of Battlefield Mobile is not a sure shot.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As a consequence, most Chinese players had only played CoD offline campaigns, since there were no official servers running in China, and their experience of the franchise was less around the twitch-y FPS brand CoD was known for, and more about cinematic single player missions. Nobody believed mobile shooters could be big in the west.

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