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Idle Miner Tycoon game passes 150M downloads

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Idle Miner Tycoon game passes 150M downloads


  • Monday, September 12, 2022
  • By Richard Harris

Kolibri Games hit title Idle Miner Tycoon has surpassed 150 million downloads accumulated from both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. The mobile game was released in 2016 and consistently expanded in-game features and signature special event...


Gaming website launches from Swifty

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Gaming website launches from Swifty


  • Wednesday, September 7, 2022
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

Swifty Global has announced the soft launch of Swifty Gaming. The gaming site offers all major sporting events including pre-match and in-play bets across 90% of the global market and more than 200 casino games. Swifty is also negotiating acquisition...


Secrets revealed from developers with over 20 mobile game hits

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Secrets revealed from developers with over 20 mobile game hits


  • Monday, September 5, 2022
  • By Freeman Lightner

The Baltic game development studio Estoty has scored more than 20 mobile game hits and they have revealed their secrets for a successful mobile game. They include market testing before a launch, motivation, and commitment, choosing the right time of ...


$335B gaming app market by 2030

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$335B gaming app market by 2030


  • Friday, August 26, 2022
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

The global game applications market was valued at $108.76B USD in 2021. It is projected to reach $335.14B by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 13.32% during the forecast period (2022–2030). The Asia-Pacific region will display a significant growth rate, wit...


HotPlay in game advertising updates from NextPlay

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HotPlay in game advertising updates from NextPlay


  • Thursday, August 25, 2022
  • By Freeman Lightner

NextPlay Technologies has announced updates for its shareholders on its HotPlay Games and In-Game Advertising progress. The HotPlay 2.0 release is expected to launch in 2022 and will bring new powerful advertising and real-world rewards delivery tech...


Crossword game Test Express Word Adventure launches

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Crossword game Test Express Word Adventure launches


  • Tuesday, August 23, 2022
  • By Freeman Lightner

The crossword puzzle game Test Express: Word Adventure has been launched from GameHouse. Now you can experience an emergent crossword puzzle game with challenging word puzzles combined with an epic game world full of fantasy challenges and rewards, t...


Classic video games are still close to our hearts

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Classic video games are still close to our hearts


  • Wednesday, August 17, 2022
  • By Richard Harris

Neal Taparia goes over the results of a new survey from Solitaired, where they found that more than 3 in 4 Americans would still play retro computer/video games if they were available, and almost half were willing to donate money or crowdfund to get ...


Tablet gaming still important in gaming industry

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Tablet gaming still important in gaming industry


  • Thursday, August 4, 2022
  • By Freeman Lightner

Although the size of the tablet gaming industry is small, tablet gaming is still important. We cover the top 10 highest revenues in tablet gaming for the past month. Roblox corporation earned $45.9M with their iPad app in the last month, and the crea...


Supercell increases stakes in Space Ape Games

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Supercell increases stakes in Space Ape Games


  • Thursday, August 4, 2022
  • By Richard Harris

Supercell has announced that they invested $37M to increase their stake in Space Ape and provided an additional $50M investment credit to fuel the growth of Beatstar, plus John Earner, CEO of Space Ape Games talks about how the support from Supercell...


$338B mobile gaming market projection

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$338B mobile gaming market projection


  • Friday, July 29, 2022
  • By Freeman Lightner

The global mobile gaming market was worth $119B USD in 2021. It is projected to reach $338B USD by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 12.3% during the forecast period of 2022–2030. The increased penetration of smartphones among the population and cloud adopt...


GDWC 2022 prize pool over $100K

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GDWC 2022 prize pool over $100K


  • Tuesday, July 12, 2022
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

The free global competition, Game Development World Championship will have over $100,000K in prizes for 2022. The competition is open to everyone whether you're a pro, a student developer, or just interested. To compete you must have a game that's re...


Gala May Mayhem wrapped up

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Gala May Mayhem wrapped up


  • Thursday, June 9, 2022
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

Gala has wrapped up their May Mayhem event after distributing over $4M USD in GALA tokens and NFT drops for players that played Town Start and Spider Tanks or referred other players to Gala Games. If you missed it Gala's May Mayhem will return on Jun...


3GoPlay subscription platform launches

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3GoPlay subscription platform launches


  • Thursday, June 2, 2022
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

3GoPlay, the game subscription platform launched and is bringing the best mobile games to Hutchison users in countries that offer the "All You Can Play" subscription model. Some of the titles include Asphalt Nitro 2, Lego Legacy: Heroes Unboxed, Disn...


Console gaming revenue increases

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Console gaming revenue increases


  • Thursday, June 2, 2022
  • By Freeman Lightner

According to the Newzoo report, console gaming revenue is set to increase, bringing in $58.6B, an 8.4% YoY growth in 2022. In addition, the report announced that mobile games will earn 45% of the entire gaming revenue in 2022, whereas console games s...


Global gaming revenue to cross $200B

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Global gaming revenue to cross $200B


  • Friday, May 27, 2022
  • By Freeman Lightner

Newzoo's latest report revealed that global gaming revenue will cross $200B in 2022 and Asia-Pacific and North America will be the most significant regions in revenue. Plus, Vyom Chaudhary shares his predictions about what the all-around growth will ...


N3TWORK Studios Inc lands $46M in funding

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N3TWORK Studios Inc lands $46M in funding


  • Friday, May 20, 2022
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

N3TWORK Studios Inc announced that they closed $46 million in a Series A financing round led by Griffin Gaming Partners. The funding will further development and help them launch their first two web3 titles Legendary: Heroes Unchained and Triumph....


May Mayhem 2022 kicks off with over $4M in prizes

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May Mayhem 2022 kicks off with over $4M in prizes


  • Tuesday, May 17, 2022
  • By Richard Harris

Gala Games has kicked off May Mayhem 2022 and is offering over $4M in prizes and rewards for its Web3 gaming community. Players can earn the rewards by playing free games and referring friends. This year's total prize pool has increased by more than ...


Solving game development bottlenecks with cloud computing

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Solving game development bottlenecks with cloud computing


  • Friday, May 13, 2022
  • By Richard Harris

AMD-powered Amazon EC2 instances and Unreal Swarm are solving game development bottlenecks like re-calculating lighting information where it consumes on-premises computing resources, tying up artists' workstations or valuable network machines for lon...


Kingdom Guard from tap4fun launches

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Kingdom Guard from tap4fun launches


  • Monday, May 9, 2022
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

Flexion Mobile has announced the launch of Kingdom Guard from tap4fun, a tower defense and strategy game where players train their soldiers and defend their kingdom. The free-to-play game with in-app purchases is available on the Amazon App Store and...


Game Developers Conference 2022

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Game Developers Conference 2022


  • Tuesday, March 22, 2022
  • By Richard Harris

The 2022 Game Developers Conference has returned, it is in-person for a week of education, inspiration, and networking. There will be sessions from some of the biggest names in electronic entertainment, and an expo floor where top game industry compa...


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