Game Industry News

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Hey all I’m back with an oddball topic for this week’s Video Game Tuesday. It’s such a very minor change, but it’s noteworthy because FFXIV has continued to be the shining example I hold up to all other Live Service games as the goal post to meet. It’s all about FFXIV’s Sage Job Icon!

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

All of its live games have made at least a billion dollars in revenue with Clash of Clans crossing 10 billion and Hay Day exceeding two billion over the lifetime. 3 Supercell needs to run live games just like everyone else “As I wrote about last year , a big mistake (my responsibility!) Having a service mindset. Source: Data.ai

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This digital transformation wave affected several industries, from retail to healthcare, from hospitality to financial services. With new services being released all the time, there are constant opportunities to innovate by leveraging cloud services. Research shows that 70% to 95% of digital transformation projects fail.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Free-to-play and live-service games have become well-established in the gaming industry. Services like GamePass, PlayStation Plus Premium among others have evolved this model to offer a wide range of full-price games, but that is a topic for another day.

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OPM Jobs

APRIL 13, 2023

Jump to: January February March April May June July August September October November December January 2024 events and dates TBC Mobidictum Network 13th – 14th | Istanbul, Turkey A smaller-scale games industry event for up to 300 attendees, Mobidictum covers many topics across a full itinerary of speakers with plenty of networking.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

You should feel like you want to live in that world, which is a very nice and pleasant place with nice music. There is so much information on streaming services and so on, about games that you can buy now. We created an Excel sheet with about 400 topics that were mentioned in the feedback by the players.

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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

We've been talking a lot about technology lately, and the topic of evolution has appeared several times on our blog. We can also think of the war of patents, where inventors from all over the world came up with the most ridiculous devices to make our lives easier.

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Game Designing

AUGUST 26, 2023

This skill is essential in many fields of work, especially in emergency services. Enhanced Ability To See More Details The topic of gaming and vision is still hotly contested. Avoidance of Real-world Problems A common issue with excessive gaming is players end up neglecting other areas of their lives.

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Game Designing

AUGUST 26, 2023

While we are on this topic, you may wonder, “How popular is gaming as a hobby? Additionally, 52% of video game players have at least one gaming service subscription. Games can be an escape from mundane lives and allow them to explore alternative identities through immersive worlds and characters. In 2023, there are over 3.09

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AWS Games

MARCH 14, 2023

Building cloud native reduces complexity, time to market, simplifies cross-platform support, and helps streamline updates to live service games across multiple platforms. Bringing servers closer to players Another key topic going into GDC is the importance of ultra-low latency for gaming experiences.

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Game Daily

MARCH 21, 2023

The Future of Play In “ The Future of Play ” on Wednesday lunchtime, GDC’s main stage plays host to a potentially fascinating slate of topics that touch upon the changing interface between the games themselves, and the lives and well-being of the people who make them.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 7, 2020

Also keep in mind that Conservancy as a charity keeps 10% of all donations for operating costs (and in exchange, as any charity of this type, they ensure transparency in usage of funds and provide accounting, legal and fiscal services to the project), so this number does not accurately represent what individual contributors will be paid.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 26, 2017

The least I can say is that we are living in interesting times! Now, now, that's enough self-gratification for a day, let's go back to our other topic: the Patreon rewards. Live Q&A video : Each month, pledgers at this level or upper will be able to ask questions to the devs in written form.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

In this article, we’ll provide you with the most comprehensive information on the Unity vs Unreal engine topic. Community Unity vs. Unreal Engine communities is another topic for hot discussions. What Unity and Unreal Gaming development services does Moonmana provide? Moonmana offers wide-ranging game development services.

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Logic Simplified

MARCH 8, 2023

Top metaverse projects that exist today Since the metaverse is the trendiest tech topic, every industry is diving into it, leading to an exponential rise in metaverse projects. Users can buy land, play games, host live events, and do other fun activities that are also done in the actual world.

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Game Designing

MARCH 1, 2023

Games are now live services requiring years of support so players can keep enjoying the experience. If you are hoping to get a job as a game engineer, your best bet will be to pursue post-secondary education in a related topic. Finally, game studios rarely just release a game and move on to the next project.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 9, 2023

However, I strongly suggest listening to the podcast to hear the entire conversation between Mishka and Jordan as they cover a wider array of topics. The Power of Company Culture in Hiring: Insights from Jordan Mishka brings up the important topic of culture - what exactly does culture mean in the context of hiring, and why is it so crucial?

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 27, 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie. Trend #2: Bridging Marketing and Live-Ops As the engine of monetization for most successful games, live ops will become much more synchronized with marketing. You can find the previous predictions here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 11, 2023

Don't paint with too broad of a brush for this important topic.” - Anonymous Developer from our survey Three-quarters of people who participated in the survey have been in the games industry for over five years while nearly half of the participants in the survey have more than a decade in the games industry. Likely both.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In this blog we describe how the AWS machine learning services can be used, in conjunction with graph databases and visualisation tools, to automate the process of scoring users and determining the impact of toxicity on your community. Kinesis is a managed service which cost-effectively process and analyzes streaming data at any scale.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Game Director has asked you to define the backend and infrastructure architecture that will support the game throughout development and live release. Here’s another example: "You are the Lead engineer on a live game that's just been released. Are we hitting some quota limits on a specific service?

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Brand Game Development

MAY 22, 2017

There are a lot of narcissists, a lot of people oversharing banal stories of their lives, and a lot of people browbeating others over politics (even if you voted for the same person). There are a number of services which promise to grow your Twitter following fast through complete automation. The Twitter community can be exhausting.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Introduction Have you ever been sitting in a meeting – or listening to a podcast, perhaps – where the merits of a game were being discussed and the topic of “Game of the Year” was raised? Awards, which each feature highly produced live streamed presentations similar to what you might expect from The Academy Awards or Emmys.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 25, 2024

AWS CloudTrail integrates with Amazon DocumentDB, providing a tracking record of database actions taken by users, roles, or other AWS services, and capturing all API calls for Amazon DocumentDB. Lastly, let’s finish off the topic of scaling with storage and I/O. Lastly, it can take up to five minutes to get live data to the backup.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 4, 2020

Live services : Over the years, the game hasn’t lost its step and has continued to provide fresh content regularly. Lau (CEO of Tencent) had just dropped out from Clash Royale’s global top-100 players leaderboard, and it was almost impossible to get his focus back to the topics we had to discuss.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Whenever I write about a topic that upsets me, I calm myself by illustrating it with charming, reassuring stock photos. And getting swatted (someone giving an anonymous call to your local emergency services to get a SWAT team sent to your house) might kill you. We need them to live. I used Google Image Search.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

To know marketplace fees I used a service called Dune Analytics , which allows performing SQL queries on a database synched with blockchains. These changes are likely easier for an in-development game to make than one that is already live and played by millions. The methodology that I’ve used to get the data on each is different.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2023

So, instead of fighting against the odds on their own, they are coming together to provide a very well rounded service. They are asking for products and services with the least amount of flaws which is extremely hard for a single team to ensure. Now the tables have turned and valuations are going down.

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AWS Games

MAY 25, 2023

In addition, the service scales quickly and easily, which gives us the flexibility to respond to critical events when we expect to see high traffic. You can use AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) to migrate your data to Amazon DocumentDB with virtually no downtime. The DMS free tier provides 750 hours of Amazon DMS Single-AZ dms.t2.micro

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

While we can live without most of those, the difficulty to have persistent login on IRC (you either need to host your own client or bouncer, or pay for a cloud-based client) was a major annoyance for many current and potential contributors, especially with a project spread across all timezones. Good moderation features. How does it work?

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

It is the no-cost matching service that gets your game in front of qualified publishers and investors in one simple process. In the next few chapters, we’ll visit these topics one by one. Sign up for their newsletter to be informed when the latest deconstruction drops. If that’s the case, Xsolla Funding Club got you covered.

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Game Biz

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Mobile Game Monetization in 2022: Navigating the eCPM Decline In the last six months, we’ve shared two posts on the eCPM trend due to the interest our clients and other developers have shown in the topic. The high eCPMs we enjoy in December are typically short-lived, followed by a decrease in eCPMs in January.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Unless otherwise specified, all the data has been provided by the wonderful services of App Annie. No doubt this is a deeply discussed topic for a genre that still shows great returns. 2019 showcased a +20 percentage point increase to investment in live-ops events across top casino apps vs 2018.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

This strategy is supported by the structure of a 4X studio where the live service team is often separated from the core tech and the publishing team. In other words, because the games are inherently identical, one live service team can operate several ones at the same time. Or Lilith, with Rise of Kingdoms and Warpath.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

In this article, we are going to explore this topic: Does Lost Ark help MMORPG in the western market enter a new age？ Gameplay: A satisfactory and standard production As a title made within the classical Korean MMORPG framework, the core UX is similar to that of other Korean MMORPG, including character design, storyline, career system, raids, etc.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2022

Gaming expert speakers talked about the hottest topics in the gaming industry from 2022 predictions to rising game categories, from blockchain & NFT gaming to launch strategies. Mail privacy protection, using Apple’s ‘hide your email’ service, also having an impact. But solid examples of this happening were not clear.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In many ways, Township has been the cornerstone for Playrix’s success as a title that allowed the company to build experience in live ops, analytics, and user acquisition. After these players are retained for a few days the LTV is optimized through successful live service management aka. And revenue followed suit….

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