PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Most people play on their mobile phone (68%), followed by console (58%) and PC (48%). PEGI ensures that games are sold and advertised responsibly and that companies have tools and safeguards in place to ensure that online game play environments are free from illegal and harmful content.” million players.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 11, 2024

source: Newzoo reports Despite the unprecedented slate of blockbuster titles, console games grew at a slower pace than inflation. PC games grew driven by dominating live service franchises and a slew of innovative AA titles. Mobile continued to search for growth in the post-IDFA world. Yet this did not materialize.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 13, 2023

It’s a fully animated social game for mobile and desktop. But we are considering expanding to consoles and VR as well.” With the vast library of 1400+ games via PC, as well as via the Cloud on Samsung & LG Smart TV’s and Android, Utomik has quite the reach. In 2019 Ubisoft bought the company.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

. - Executive of a small developer who has till date amassed well over 100M installs on mobile The end of discovery also means that there will be no indie breakouts from small indie developers. Join one of the few powerful game companies taking over mobile. Exit mobile. Instead, the indie developers will have three options.

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AWS Games

MARCH 8, 2024

The use of game engines to generate interactive content is a common choice for people these days. Unity , which is one of the popular game engines, is widely used for mobile applications that run on smartphones. It is also used for console and PC games, as well as in the metaverse, such as reality shows and simulating megacities.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 8, 2024

Solid pipeline By taking the time to build a solid pipeline the team is now at a place in development where it’s easy to create new content such as episodes, story beats and missions. “We Detective Dotson is expected later this year for PC, consoles and mobile.

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Game Development News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Xsolla, a global video game commerce company, shares insights that 40 of the top 100 mobile games have launched their Web Shop using Xsolla's solution

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

on Xbox Game Pass Profitability Last week Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer spoke at The Wall Street Journal ’s Tech Live conference saying that Xbox Game Pass is already profitable and accounts for around 15 percent of Xbox content and services revenue. We’re seeing incredible growth on PC. I don’t think it gets bigger than that.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

TWiG #212 - Apple's New Price Points / Game Genre Taxonomy pt 2 / Nintendo's Mobile Strategy ? Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. ✉️ Received this email from a friend?

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Mobile games are currently at the peak of their popularity. Game development companies catch the wave and try to please picky gamers with compelling mobile games. Unreal Engine aims for top-notch mobile game development. UE provides advanced tools and packages for visual content creation, animation, coding, and even QA. .

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 19, 2024

This implies that players switch between mobile, PC, and console. Developers are now using AI for natural language processing (NLP), procedural content generation, and personalized gaming experiences. More Robust Franchises Have Gone Mobile There’s a significant increase in the use of smartphones in 2023.

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Game Errors

JUNE 19, 2023

By default, your console will decide what connection it should connect to and on what frequency. For testing purposes, you can also use a mobile hotspot. Change WiFi frequency Update PS5 software Use a VPN 1. Change WiFi frequency Time needed: 3 minutes. PlayStation 5 can use 5GHz and 2.4 GHz WiFi frequencies.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Now approaching its 10th anniversary, Norsfell has grown from a small startup developing mobile games into a studio with nearly 40 team members who helped launch the award-winning multi-platform game, “ Tribes of Midgard.” Independent game development studio, Norsfell , was founded in 2013 to forge new genres that bring people together.

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Greenheart Games

MARCH 8, 2018

Inspired by the mobile UI, we’ve revamped the review screen with now 100% more star-power. Swap and late-game PC. We have also added a new late-game PC image to the game. – Mods can now add their own settings UI to the game’s settings-panel via a call to `GDT.addSettingsTab(title, content);` ( documentation ).

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Deconstructor of Fun

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. All in all, Ilkka’s yearly blog is an inspirational and quite sincere vision of the top brass of a major mobile games company.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 31, 2020

As commentary, I wrote: “Yes, Tencent already owns the biggest MOBA franchises on PC (League of Legends) and mobile (Honor of Kings). Yes, Tencent/Riot are still planning on launching [LoL: Wild Rift] on both mobile and console. As a bonus, mobile battle royale history will also be covered.)

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Here are some of them: AI-Powered Content Creators Ludo AI: This tool excels at generating gameplay concepts and mechanics based on your preferences. Most mobile game development companies use this tool to make their work effortless. Encourage collaboration, competition, and user-generated content to keep players engaged and invested.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

In the mobile free to play area, additional capital also means the ability to fund long payback games at scale (e.g., Budgets for AAA console games could be more like $20M-$50M (notwithstanding Activision’s $200M+ budgets for Call of Duty although also including marketing and distribution). Apex Legends, Call of Duty Mobile, etc.)

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Shooters are the fifth largest genre on mobile at $2.1B in net revenues during 2020, while holding the top games on mobile. All this is fueled by some of the heaviest live content operations in the industry. To keep players coming back each season, each event -- there needs to be gameplay impacting content for players to enjoy.

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Game Errors

APRIL 4, 2023

Before you proceed to try the primary troubleshooting methods below, you may try the following preliminary steps to check if it helps fix the issue: Restart your PC. Reboot the game, the console, or the PC Check your internet connection. Reset your network devices. Then check the boxes under Private and Public , and press OK.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This isn’t as true or a high priority in PC and console games. Much more so than other consoles. It’s clear that simulation, as both a genre and concept, is far more popular in VR than in Console and PC games. There are many objects in PC and console games that are just… there. Which is fine.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

It specializes in producing both 2D & 3D content and has up to 200 employees. Specialties: – 3D Modeling, Physically Based Rendering, 3D Animation, 3D Design, Architectural Visualization, 3D Presentations, 3D Art, 2D Art, 3D Printing, 3D Multiplication, Interactive Walkthroughs, 3D Content, 2D Animation, NFT, and Metaverse.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

For example, the Oculus Quest is technically a mobile device, and so has limited power. And even more so in VR, considering how immersive these games are compared to mobile, console and PC. The VR market seems to exist as a separate entity from the main console and PC games. Get to know the VR market.

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Game Daily

APRIL 13, 2023

Life skills The survey found that parents with children aged 3-8 are 89% more likely to co-game in order to better understand the content of the games their kids are playing. Mostly though, people play mobile games. Parents of teens are 46% more likely to play games with their kids.

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AWS Games

MARCH 14, 2023

Based on what we heard, a few themes that are top-of-mind include: cloud-based game development (aka Game Studio in the Cloud), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to help support player community health, content moderation, and AI-driven game development.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

If market trends, especially on PC and Console, are something you want to hear more about, I highly suggest you check out my conversation with Newzoo’s Head of Consulting, Ben Porter below. During the lockdown years companies grew in headcount to supply content against the massive surge of demand.

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Game Errors

JUNE 6, 2023

Here are the system requirements for Apex Legends: Processor: Core i3 6th Gen/AMD FX-4350 or Better RAM: 6GB Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640/Radeon HD 7730 Disk Space: 22 GB+ Operating System: Windows 7 or higher After knowing the required specifications, you can see that a PC with basic hardware can run Apex Legends without any problem.

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Game Development News

JULY 20, 2023

After three years working with the biggest hyper-casual game publishers in the business, Peter Phillips, MD of Amuzo Games, has some sage advice for small developers looking to make an elusive profit

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I believe that mobile games could be facing the same deliberate death-by-a-platform as games Facebook suffered a decade ago. Just remember one thing: Even though Facebook pulled the plug on games, the gaming business rose to unexpected new heights on a new platform, which was mobile. We’re like frogs being slowly boiled alive.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

We're talking about massive layoffs across the tech industry and gaming in particular, new mobile game studios from NetEase and Nintendo, Playtika's latest earnings report, the dramatic and sudden collapse of FTX and the ongoing creator royalty debate going on in the world of NFTs. ? million despite lowest quarter since 2020 ?

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity is considered the best solution for mobile game development. Unity is the best option for indie developers and mobile game projects. Pros of Unity Game Engine Advanced cross-platform interoperability allows for games to be launched on all significant mobile, VR, desktop, console, and TV platforms, besides the Web.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 1, 2020

Today, especially on the mobile gaming side, the market has matured over the past 10 years with many of the key vendor categories having well entrenched and well capitalized players. Growth Area: Console and PC games are increasingly shifting to free to play monetization and therefore a live operating model.

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Rampant Games

JUNE 3, 2022

It’s a little trite, but the industry was expecting the next iPhone and instead got one of the first “brick” 1980s-era mobile phone. With the Quest 2 being sold for less than the price of a console, cost isn’t universally a prohibiting factor. All of them are being addressed, some better than others.

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Game Errors

APRIL 26, 2023

However, based on the estimates of various gaming websites and reviewers, the main story of Far Cry 6 is expected to take around 20-25 hours to complete if you focus solely on the story missions and do not spend much time on side content. PlayStation : Far Cry 6 can be played on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 consoles.

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Mnenad

JANUARY 14, 2020

That were the kind of games he used to play on his mobile device back then.     More content was one of the main requests next to bug fixes. This is okay and makes it worth investing time in updates and content for the app.   So I remember exactly how my first prototype looked like.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

Although most of them come from the F2P mobile sector, the industry has observed professionals transitioning from the PC/console space to focus on developing AAA-quality blockchain games. Improved UGC integration : There is no denying that User Generated Content is becoming more and more important each day.

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Grid Sage Games

JANUARY 1, 2024

Being the way a player interacts with all of a game’s content, UI is naturally central to the experience, thus one of the most fundamental aspects a game’s design needs to address is matching up that design with its corresponding system requirements, including the display device!

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