Netflix continues its gaming expansion with an acquisition of Spry Fox. Let’s take a look back at how the studio made a name for itself in the mobile market as a pioneer of the Merge genre.

Andraž Oražem, Slovenian dev and founder of one-man studio Alchemy Sheep, has shared with us some ups and downs he faced while making his upcoming roguelike game NecroBouncer. This rollercoaster journey could help many other indie creators avoid making the same mistakes.

What’s happening to play-to-earn gaming? Is it still alive or is it at a dead end? A GameFi expert has shared his opinion with us, so here are some insightful comments on the current market situation.

Unity supports Ukraine-based developers on its Asset Store, but many of them have been experiencing trouble getting money for months. The official payment methods simply stopped working with the start of Russia’s invasion, and the company still doesn’t seem to have found a proper solution.

Supercell has ended the development of its co-op builder Everdale a year after it was launched in beta. Here are other mobile titles that have been killed by the company throughout its history.

Merge has been one of the ever-evolving genres on mobile for a while. AppMagic has interviewed several games industry experts to put the entire category under the microscope. This article highlights the key trends while trying to answer the question of whether the Merge genre is worth trying now.

In 2020, ZiMAD was looking to acquire a casual game that would seamlessly fit into its portfolio of board games, when it found Domino Online. At the time, however, its metrics were mediocre at best. In this article, Yana Vesnina, M&A manager at ZiMAD, explains why the publisher decided to buy the game and how it managed to dramatically increase its revenue.

The winners of the annual Dstars Awards have been announced today. Italian developers have voted for their colleagues across categories like Game of the Year, Management Star, Best New Studio, and Industry Star.

It’s been a few weeks since Yacht Club Games announced its new game Mina the Hollower. The studio, known for indie hit Shovel Knight, has already raised over $1 million on Kickstarter, which is more than three times the sum it originally requested.

Nintendo has announced that both 3DS and Wii U eShops will be permanently closed in March 2023. Although players won’t be able to buy and own digital copies of old games anymore, the company apparently is not interested in preserving its classic titles.

YAHAHA, a new social entertainment platform created by a team of Unity veterans, announced it is entering soft launch in March 2022. Users can now join YAHAHA’s Early Exclusive Insiders Group to test-drive the platform.

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.

Developers have gotten into a heated discussion about thousands of indie games launching on Steam every year. While some think that these projects shouldn’t exist because they have zero value, the rest are convinced that everyone should have the right to express themselves through any art form.

The digital content industry has been steadily rising even before the pandemic and the global market size is expected to reach $38 billion by 2030. In this post, Tachat Igityan, founder of the platform for streamers destream, breaks down the financial aspects of blogging and content creation.

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.

Gamera Interactive CEO Alberto Belli has joined us to discuss what the Italian studio managed to achieve in 2021 and what to expect from it this year, including the launch of RPG Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms.

Wrapping up our “2021 in Video Games” series is Piotr Gnyp, Chief Marketing Office at indie games developer and publisher Movie Games.