After four days, Palworld, an early-access survivor game described as “Pokemon with guns,” grossed ~$108M over three days en route...
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Phil Spencer, Microsoft Gaming CEO, named Johanna Faries the new president of Blizzard, closing a pivotal moment in the ATVI-Microsoft...
The Wall Street Journal reports Netflix is considering IAP and ads to monetize the $1B a year it’s spending on...
Insomniac leaks reveal Playstation lost 3M MAU over the last three years. At a time when gaming is at its...
MMOs and most web3 titles suffer from a fundamental design flaw: capital depreciation (or lack thereof). The result is a...
Hypercasual solved a novel problem for all mobile titles: marketing. Like web3, hypercasual always seems to be caught in its...
The reverse-Blizzard thesis has arrived. Firms like Blizzard, Supercell, Valve, and even Apple thrived on popularizing but not inventing mechanics...
Consider an experiment on a given game; IAP is turned on in one version, and in another, IAP is turned...
Chinese games have gone global. This week’s launch of Honkai: Star Rail and Starlight 84 marks China’s emergence as a...
Core design influences the production gap between Blizzard’s Overwatch heroes and, say, Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege (R6:Siege) Operators. Ubisoft has...
The world’s least powerful CEO won’t lead Supercell’s next chapter. Supercell is superscaling, and with it comes bureaucratization and hierarchy....
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