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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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The top 22 mobile games of 2022

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Masters of simulation, this studio is renowned for making popular sim games for mobile. We don’t see this often enough in casual simulation games, but there is a lovely open-world feel to this game. But not only is it the first to make it to mobile, it’s also the first one to be free to play. If done well.

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Checkmate: Discussing the Rise of Chess Games on Mobile

Game Refinery

Video games have come a long way since they were first conceptualized in the 1950s, with expansive open worlds that can fit right in your pocket, but you don’t need to go back 70 years to see what games looked like back then. Despite the chess crossover, no direct reference was made to Chess.com within either Clash title.

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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 Noticeably, Tencent’s PUBG Mobile and Garena’s Free Fire were both down 37%.

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AWS for Games to spotlight generative AI at GDC 2024

AWS Games

launched in April 2023 and quickly grew to become the world’s #1 casual mobile game, surpassing $1B in revenue within six months. Learn about the technology behind the in-game ThorAI (powered by Amazon Bedrock), and get a dive deep into fully voiced, interactive in-game NPCs in the companion mobile game Missing.

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Fly around on a broom in cozy adventure Mika and the Witch’s Mountain by Chibig

PreMortem.Games

Of course we are developing the additional content promised on the Kickstarter campaign!” Founder Abraham Cózar Riera released his first game Deiland for mobile devices. Combining the looks of a Ghibli movie with the condensed open world of that game, gave birth to the idea of an apprentice witch delivering packages.

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Bukola Akingbade of Kucheza Gaming on nurturing dreams and shaping industries

PreMortem.Games

She highlighted the shift from scheduled TV programs where TV was on between 4 pm and 10 pm when she was a child to on-demand content today. She observed an evolution in her children’s preferences from traditional Disney shows to influencer and gameplay content. Now there are hundreds of millions.

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