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Gaming industry continues to rise

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Gaming industry continues to rise


  • Thursday, September 16, 2021
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

The global gaming industry continues to rise in 2021 and the revenues for Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo are expected to grow by 13%. While mobile gaming is the driving force behind the surge in growth, console gaming is also growing with profits and ...


Female Esports initiative from Challengermode

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Female Esports initiative from Challengermode


  • Friday, September 10, 2021
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

Challengermode has partnered with Super Girl Gamer Series to support the female Esports initiative and host tournaments across a range of Esports....


How to earn crypto and NFTs for playing your favorite games

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How to earn crypto and NFTs for playing your favorite games


  • Wednesday, August 25, 2021
  • By Christian Hargrave

Do you want to know how to earn crypto and NFTs for playing your favorite games? On August 26 Aavegotchi will be launching the second round of NFTs during a limited 72-Hour event. There will also be a #BidToEarn auction of 12,000 new Aavegotchis....


Asia mobile gamers outweigh Europe and America combined

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Asia mobile gamers outweigh Europe and America combined


  • Tuesday, August 24, 2021
  • By Freeman Lightner

There are about 1.3B Asia mobile gamers, more than Europe and America combined, with revenues expected to hit $100B by 2025....


Growing your gaming app by looking at the data

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Growing your gaming app by looking at the data


  • Tuesday, August 10, 2021
  • By Andrey Kazakov

Growing your gaming app by looking at the data, user journeys, portfolio size, and app updates is more important than ever for developers to understand what’s driving success....


Game Developers Choice Awards at GDC 2021

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Game Developers Choice Awards at GDC 2021


  • Monday, August 2, 2021
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

The Game Developers Choice Awards at GDC 2021 is coming up on Wednesday, July 21, where the recipients will receive the Pioneer and Lifetime Achievements awards....


Mobile action genre games revenue increases

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Mobile action genre games revenue increases


  • Wednesday, July 28, 2021
  • By Freeman Lightner

Mobile action genre games revenue increased to an estimated $435.7M in H1 2021 and experienced the highest YoY growth, with the hyper-casual genre coming second, and the tabletop genre coming third....


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...


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