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Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It's time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. I've got an unusual mix of titles in the list this time. Well, there are a couple of familiar faces, but for the most part this is a fresh mix.
The FoxNext team has been through a lot. Established in 2017 to be the new video games division for TV and film giant Fox, the studio was sold (along with its entire parent company) to even larger TV and film giant Disney in 2019. Disney had made a very public pivot away from internal game development a few years earlier, so it was not terribly surprising when FoxNext was sold again in January of 2020 to its third (and current) parent company, Scopely. Speaking with GamesIndustry.biz, Scopely president of games (and former FoxNext GM) Amir Rahimi talks about how the team dealt with the turmo...
Classifying Pay to Win Design in Today's Market by Josh Bycer on 04/14/21 10:53:00 am The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutras community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. The digital ink hasn’t settled yet on my fourth book, let alone my third, and I’m already planning book five to be on free to play/monetization. With it, the discussion returns to the topics of ethic...
With Apple implementing new privacy rules on iOS apps, market research firm Newzoo believes mobile game makers will increasingly rely on IP-based games in order to draw attention to their games. To put some perspective around the current size of that market, Newzoo on Friday released a report on IP-based mobile games, sharing revenue figures for a number of brands as tracked by Newzoo data partner Apptopia. (Newzoo's definition of an "IP-based" game does not include brands that began in gaming such as Pokémon.) In 2020, Disney's Marvel Universe was the largest brand in mobile games in the US...
4 hours ago Collect, Upgrade and Sell Playable NFTs for Cash or Crypto; Alpha Phase of Peer-to-Peer NFT Marketplace Announced, Bolstered by New Hires Stoyan Stoyanov, Matt Nutt and Cristina Lee LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#Blankos–Mythical Games, a next-generation technology studio creating universal gaming ecosystems around playable NFTs, led by industry veterans and former executives from Activision, Oculus, EA and Zynga, today announced the Alpha phase of its proprietary Marketplace. Mythical’s Marketplace will facilitate peer-to-peer sales of playab...