Marketing May 13, 2019 Almost Half of All Game Enthusiasts are Women Over one billion game enthusiasts are women, according to Newzoo. That’s 46% of all players, game viewers and owners of the related tech across 30 key markets.
Industry News May 8, 2019 Germany to Protect Youth from Aggressive Mobile Monetization The State of Bavaria proposed the new youth protection guidelines. This draft legislation targets aggressive monetization models that take advantage of minors’ “inexperience and credulity.”
Industry News May 8, 2019 PUBG Shut Down in China. Kind of Tencent pulled the mobile test version of PUBG in China. The online blockbuster never received the monetization approval from the government.
Marketing May 7, 2019 Asia-Pacific Top Mobile Game Markets Game analytics provider Newzoo and one of Asia’s leading mobile advertising platforms Mintegral published a report on mobile markets of China, Japan and Korea.
Industry News May 7, 2019 Over 150 Riot Workers Walk Out to Challenge Sexism and Forced Arbitration Over 150 Riot Games employees held a walk-out at the company’s studio in Los Angeles. This came in response to the company’s forced arbitration policy.
Dev Interviews May 6, 2019 Digital Sun CEO Javier Giménez on Making Moonlighter Moonlighter, developed by Spanish studio Digital Sun, has become an indie hit on PC, PlayStation and Xbox, with over 500.000 installs and counting.
Industry News May 6, 2019 GameClub to Update Classic Games for Modern iOS Versions “In with the old,” says mobile games startup GameClub. The company has raised $2.5 million to rerelease old premium iOS games that are no longer playable at Apple gadgets.
Marketing April 30, 2019 Google Play Awards 2019 Nominees Announced Google has announced the nominees for this year’s Google Play Awards.
Marketing April 29, 2019 Julia Lebedeva: “If everything falls apart without you, start working on your project management skills” With just slightly over two weeks before the CEO Summit, we catch up with Julia Lebedeva. Julia is the head of the White Nights Conference organizing committee and VP Business Development at Nevosoft.
Marketing April 29, 2019 10 Facts Developers Should Know about South Korean Game Market As of 2018, South Korean game market is estimated at $5,764M, which makes it the 4th biggest country by game revenue after China, the U.S., and Japan
Industry News April 26, 2019 Epic Games CEO: Epic Would Retreat from Exclusives, if Steam Improved its Revenue Share This week saw a heated debate unfold on Twitter after Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney tweeted about PC exclusives on EGS and the store’s revenue share model.
Industry News April 26, 2019 Cyber Hunter: Sci-Fi Take on Battle Royale with Parkour Elements There can’t be too many battle royale games. Or so they thought at NetEase.
Industry News April 25, 2019 Let’s Be Adult About It: Nutaku Dedicated Storefront Comes to Android Adult gaming portal Nutaku has released Nutaku Android Store. It allows users to download adult games, bypassing restrictions on Google Play.
Industry News April 25, 2019 Respawn CEO on Efficient Content Production for Apex Legends Respawn CEO Vince Zampella announced that the studio would not be shipping new Apex Legends content on a weekly basis, per Gamasutra. Instead, the game will receive season-by-season updates
Featured April 24, 2019 SuperData: Digital Games Market Ends Q1 2019 on a “Soft Note” In March, users spent $ 8.7 billion on digital copies of games. This is a 3% drop from the spending in March 2018.
Featured April 24, 2019 Crunch Culture Behind Games as a Service Polygon interviewed Epic Games staff about the success of Fortnite and the stress it brought on the team.
Featured April 23, 2019 What’s New in Streaming StreamElements and Stream Hatchet released the State of the Stream report for Q1 2019. The report analyzes viewership data by streaming platform, by streamer, and by game.
Industry News April 22, 2019 Google’s Indie Games Accelerator Returns Launched last year, Indie Games Accelerator program is now accepting applications for class 2019.
Industry News April 19, 2019 Tencent Will Sell Switch in China Tencent has secured the necessary approval to sell Nintendo’s portable console in China. The console will be distributed with a test version of the “New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe.”
Industry News April 19, 2019 Iraq Bans PUBG and Fortnite Citing Negative Effects Iraq’s parliament voted this week to ban PUBG and Fortnite, popular online battle royale games, Reuters reports.