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Mordhau on consoles: “A lot of smoke and mirrors go into making things hit”

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Now that Mordhau has arrived on both PlayStation and Xbox , console players finally get the chance to hack & slash their way through medieval battlegrounds. The brutal and bloody combat game from Slovenian developer Triternion has already been very successful for the last 4 years on PC. It was this idea that pushed everything else.

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

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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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The State of the Mobile Games Market in 2023

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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 A game that really fell during 2022 losing nearly half of its revenues in the process.

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The top 22 mobile games of 2022

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Hit & Run is a typical runner game, where you avoid dangers and collect, well, in this case, people. But for this game, they layered in choice – fight enemies to make your character stronger, and avoid ones that are too tough. It’s tricky taking any game from PC and Console to mobile. Plan your attack.

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Supercell’s Strategic Initiatives that Will Transform the Company

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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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12 Ways to Take Battle Passes to the Next Level in Mobile Games

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Battle passes have crept into almost every mobile game genre imaginable, with our platform showing that 66% of mobile games in the top 20% have incorporated the feature. We’ve updated the blog post with new battle pass implementation examples and best practices for introducing the feature into your mobile game.

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Unveiling Far Cry 6 Info: Everything You Need to Know

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In addition, in third-person mode we will be watching the main character (or heroine) in many in-game cinematics – this is also an innovation for the Far Cry series. Far Cry 6 is available to play on various devices, including: PC : Far Cry 6 is available on PC through the Ubisoft Store, Epic Games Store, and Steam.