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Newzoo’s latest report: Almost 9 in 10 gamers spend money on in-game items

PreMortem.Games

These emerging players are at the forefront of consuming game-related content alongside their active involvement, emphasizing the growing trend of watching gaming-related media alongside playing. More than one platform Almost half of all gamers actively play on more than one platform.

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2023: Year in Retrospect for the Gaming Industry

iXie gaming

Growth in Cross-platform Gaming Cross-platform games have become more popular than ever. One out of four gamers play cross-platform as of 2023. This implies that players switch between mobile, PC, and console. But what does this mean for developers? This will cushion them from future layoffs.

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Top Emerging Free Game Development Tools and Trends!

Big Games

Here are some of them: AI-Powered Content Creators Ludo AI: This tool excels at generating gameplay concepts and mechanics based on your preferences. Cross-Platform Development Unity : A versatile game engine supporting development for PC, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, HTML5, VR platforms, and several consoles.

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Video Game Development Trends That You Should Know

Moonmana

Video games development incorporates PC games and consoles. Cross-platform Video Game Development Trends. Game developers have to be more flexible and agile than ever before to develop games and provide Games as a Service (GaaS) for pc and varieties of consoles. Now let’s get closer to the current gaming trends.

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Calling on Xbox Game Pass Profitability

Deconstructor of Fun

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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Unreal Engine for Android Game Development: What to Expect

Moonmana

Unreal Engine is an all-in-one platform that allows for the development of different game types, so each stage of the development cycle can be performed using it. UE provides advanced tools and packages for visual content creation, animation, coding, and even QA. . Cross-platform development and game porting capabilities.

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GDC 2023: Trends re-defining the future of game development

AWS Games

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.