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The Hunger Games for User Generated Content: Case Fall Guys

Deconstructor of Fun

Written by Tiffany Keller , who is a Director of Product and investor with a decade of experience in mobile games across Scopely, Activision Blizzard, Miniclip, and Zynga. Can slow-rolling UGC pack the punch Mediatonic needs to defend the knockout genre on the console before mobile competitors eat their lunch?

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The State of the Mobile Games Market in 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

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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The Rise of Hybridization in Mobile Games: How Developers are Genre Mashing Their Way to Success

Game Refinery

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together.

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Daniel Macharia’s bold leap from banking to video games

PreMortem.Games

Macharia’s gaming journey started with handheld water ring toss games, progressed to brick games, and then evolved into classics like Super Mario and Duck Hunt on Terminator Ending Man’s console. He fell in love with driving games like C3 Racing, Forza, Turismo, and Project Scars.

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The Mobile Games Industry In the Year 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

. - 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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Blockbuster Games Failed to Grow the Market - What Next?

Deconstructor of Fun

source: Newzoo reports Despite the unprecedented slate of blockbuster titles, console games grew at a slower pace than inflation. Mobile continued to search for growth in the post-IDFA world. Mobile continued to search for growth in the post-IDFA world. And originally Newzoo reported that the Console market would grow by 7%.

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Winning the toxicity arms race

Game Development News

Mike Pappas, CEO of Modulate, explains how automated voice moderation has a natural advantage over methods of combatting abuse through text

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