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Gamer's habits changed during lockdown

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Gamer's habits changed during lockdown


  • Monday, June 14, 2021
  • By Richard Harris

We recently caught up with Justin Chen, entrepreneur and co-founder of PickFu to hear more about how gamer's habits changed during the lockdown and the PickFu survey results on gaming habits....


Denuvo has joined the PlayStation 5 Tools and Middleware program

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Denuvo has joined the PlayStation 5 Tools and Middleware program


  • Wednesday, March 10, 2021
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

Denuvo joins the PlayStation®5 Tools and Middleware program, offering it's Anti-Cheat solution to publishers and developers whose games are on PlayStation®5....


Gaming is a full time job study shows

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Gaming is a full time job study shows


  • Monday, February 15, 2021
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

Think gaming is a full time job? A new study out, surveyed nearly 8,000 gamers revealing amount of hours spent gaming, the type of gaming device used, and what games are played the most....


Overwolf review: How successful gaming apps are being built

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Overwolf review: How successful gaming apps are being built


  • Tuesday, February 9, 2021
  • By Andre Liverod

Andre Liverod discusses how successful gaming apps are being built using Overwolf, plus he shares an overview of the platform and how the MTGA assistant enhances gaming experiences....


Game developing from home in 2021

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Game developing from home in 2021


  • Tuesday, January 26, 2021
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

Eric Morales and Johan Broman from AWS, predict growing ability to work remote doing things like developing games, and there will be new social experience opportunities in 2021....


Mobile ads are about to get annoying says Brainium Studios

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Mobile ads are about to get annoying says Brainium Studios


  • Tuesday, January 5, 2021
  • By Freeman Lightner

Scott Willoughby, Chief Operating Officer, from Brainium Studios predicts that in 2021 mobile ads are going to get more annoying, and mobile gaming will have a new definition due to innovation and mobile app developers will have to protect their end-...


GameRefinery makes its iOS download and revenue data available free

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GameRefinery makes its iOS download and revenue data available free


  • Thursday, December 24, 2020
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

GameRefinery is bringing some much-needed Christmas cheer to all mobile game developers by making its download and revenue data for 100k iOS games available for free....


Game development and Live Ops are evolving

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Game development and Live Ops are evolving


  • Tuesday, December 8, 2020
  • By Richard Harris

We recently caught up with Lloyd Tullues and Travis Boatman, founders of Carbonated Games. They discuss how game development and Live Ops are evolving, future trends, new technologies, and why Live Ops platforms are important for game developers....


AudioMob runs competition for aspiring games developers and students

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AudioMob runs competition for aspiring games developers and students


  • Friday, September 18, 2020
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

AudioMob is running a competition for aspiring games developers and students. Entrants are asked to design their own game and build in AudioMob's Unity plugin for audio ads, getting the chance to work with innovative technology and win $1000, gaini...


GDC 2021 event lineup

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GDC 2021 event lineup


  • Tuesday, September 1, 2020
  • By Freeman Lightner

GDC 2021 will be a hybrid physical/virtual event both online and at the Moscone Center in San Francisco July 19-23, 2021. Additional 2020-21 GDC events to include Virtual Master Classes, Streaming Talks and a Week-Long Virtual Community Celebration ...


Atari partners with Robot Cache

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Atari partners with Robot Cache


  • Wednesday, June 24, 2020
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

Atari® announced a partnership with Robot Cache to integrate the Atari Token into the Robot Cache digital storefront where customers can buy or resell digital games....


Atari partners with Unikrn

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Atari partners with Unikrn


  • Friday, June 12, 2020
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

Atari® has announced a partnership with Unikrn. This agreement promises to accelerate the adoption of the Atari Token by incorporating it into Unikrn's already thriving cryptocurrency ecosystems - which offers shopping, betting, and gaming....


Epic Games partners with Fortumo to launch carrier billing

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Epic Games partners with Fortumo to launch carrier billing


  • Tuesday, June 9, 2020
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

Epic Games and the mobile technology company Fortumo are announcing the launch of a carrier billing partnership. Epic Games has integrated Fortumo’s carrier billing platform to collect payments for Fortnite Battle Passes, game purchases in the Epic G...


Google announced product updates

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Google announced product updates


  • Tuesday, March 24, 2020
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

Google announces new advertising solutions to help game developers build successful businesses including updates to Google Analytics, AdMob and App campaigns....


Latin America loves business and finance apps Adjust study finds

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Latin America loves business and finance apps Adjust study finds


  • Tuesday, February 25, 2020
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

Adjust global app benchmarks data for Q4 2019 reveals that Latin America, the second fastest-growing region for mobile in the world, after Asia Pacific has the highest average retention rate (9.36%) for Business & Finance apps after the first day a u...


Global gaming industry in 2019

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Global gaming industry in 2019


  • Thursday, January 9, 2020
  • By Christian Hargrave

Mobile climbs to the top of the game development industry and Adjust becomes the first mobile measurement partner in Unity Technologies’ Verified Solutions Partner Program....


In game advertising extends beyond casual games

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In game advertising extends beyond casual games


  • Tuesday, December 31, 2019
  • By Freeman Lightner

In-game advertising extends beyond casual games as developer confidence grows, finds deltaDNA study. Developers are using more ad formats and showing more ads per session as confidence grows and revenues rise....


Mobile game players earning big money

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Mobile game players earning big money


  • Thursday, December 19, 2019
  • By Freeman Lightner

Mobile gaming is constantly on the rise, figures show that there are approximately 2.4 billion active mobile gamers worldwide. The experts at the online marketplace OnBuy.com sought to find out the highest-paid mobile game players from the US, and ho...


MEGAFANS new advertising strategy

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MEGAFANS new advertising strategy


  • Monday, October 14, 2019
  • By Freeman Lightner

MEGAFANS Inc. (Mobile eSports Games Fanatics) has launched a new self-sustaining advertising strategy, unlike anything eSports companies have done so far....


Unity buys deltaDNA but it will operate as a separate entity

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Unity buys deltaDNA but it will operate as a separate entity


  • Wednesday, September 25, 2019
  • By Christian Hargrave

Unity Technologies buys deltaDNA. This is Unity’s third acquisition in the last 12 months, following their purchase of Vivox (cross-platform voice and text chat) and Digital Monarch Media (next-generation filmmaking)....


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