The AI revolution is in full swing, and modern artificial intelligence methods for learning, planning, and optimizing have begun changing the rules in many industries, from advertising and social media to mining or manufacturing. But not video games. Or at least, not yet. AI academic and modl.ai co-founder Julian Togelius has examined how these technologies will alter video games in the coming years.

What does the $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard mean for the industry in the long term? Will Activision games become exclusive to Microsoft? How will Sony and Nintendo respond? Is the race on to conquer the Metaverse? Analyst Joost Rietveld is here to explain.

The most ambitious gaming companies focus on the biggest genres — in terms of their audience and their cumulative revenue. Here is where the money lies, at least for those who dare play big. AppMagic founder Max Samorukov shared handy conclusions based on the most important changes that happened in the Western mobile games market in 2021.

The distribution of cheating software is a persistent problem faced by the video games industry. Despite the global nature of the challenge, most infringing torrent indexes are either operated/hosted from Russia or use Russian reverse proxies. In this article, Alena Kuzmina, a lawyer at Semenov&Pevzner, discusses the legal grounds on which the potential software cheating may be challenged under the Russian law.

Officially launched worldwide on 25 August 2021, Marvel Future Revolution has generated approximately 50 million downloads and over $30 million in revenue. This is according to marketing intelligence firm SocialPeta, which has analyzed the title’s marketing campaign.

Naughty Dog’s Lead Designer Arnaldo Licea discusses how the flooded mall level was created for The Last of Us Part II.

In this article, Michał Malewicz, UX designer and CEO of digital design and development agency HYPE4, discusses the UI of Deathloop by Arkane Studios.

When it comes to publishing their mobile games, Western developers prioritise two main app stores: the Apple AppStore and the Google Play Store. Why? They’re familiar platforms with low barriers to entry. And most developers are either unaware of wider global opportunities or assume that distributing and monetising their games on other platforms is too difficult.

Mobile game advertising is evolving in the face of today’s consumer privacy initiatives and changing media consumption habits. However, mobile gaming developers are doing everything they can to protect their revenue sources instead of looking for growth opportunities due to these developments. Fortunately, none are happening overnight, offering developers some time to chart a path forward.

Sophie Vo, Studio & Game Lead at Voodoo, shares her key lessons from building up Voodoo’s new studio in Berlin

Josh Bycer analyzes Resident Evil Village’s combat and exploration systems.

Black Caviar Games is a mobile and PC game developer and publisher founded in 2019. Initially, the company didn’t have an office at all, with all employees working remotely. A full-fledged working space only arrived in March 2020, but the lockdown made the devs switch back to WFH.

Games marketing consultants Nikita Okan and Margarita Nikolaeva, who have worked on dozens of projects including hits Hustle Castle, Zero City, Tacticool, Love Sick, etc, have put together a comprehensive guide on scaling games from soft launch to global launch.

This is another installment of Semenov&Pevzner’s overview of major lawsuits and infringements affecting the gaming industry.

This is another installment of Semenov&Pevzner’s overview of major lawsuits and infringements affecting the gaming industry.

In June 2019, miHoYo published a promo video for its new game — Genshin Impact. In September 2020, the game came out and dominated charts right away. Fiona Long of SocialPeta breaks down advertising and promotion strategies that made Genshin Impact an immediate success.