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Super interesting article about Live Game Services, Live Subscriptions and F2P for the console market. This article by Ampere Analysis and GamesIndustry.Biz dives into the evolving business models of the console gaming industry. It highlights the increasing prominence of live service games, free-to-play titles, and subscription services, fundamentally changing how developers bring their creations to market and how revenue is generated. Here are my key takeaways: 👑 Subscription services, while significant, aren't the sole rulers of the market. However, they have become a major player, influencing how some developers approach game development. ⭐ Live service games are the current stars of the show, captivating players with frequent updates and ongoing engagement. These titles often see players returning daily, leading to consistent revenue streams. 🕹 Free-to-play titles, while not as widespread as on mobile platforms, still hold a considerable space in the console market. 🤔 It's worth noting that a small number of publishers hold a dominant position, with their live service games driving a significant portion of the overall playtime in the console space. 💡 This shift in business models presents a more intricate competitive landscape for developers, pushing developers to factor in live service elements, free-to-play structures, and subscription services when planning and launching new games. Full article: https://lnkd.in/ejZC-HNf

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I would like to express total support and caring for every single member of the Behaviour Interactive team today upon the news of 95 cuts (70 in Montreal) due to strategic changes, as revealed in a company press release. These situations are tough for everybody involved and I am here simply to say no matter whom you are at Behaviour, I and our community will do anything we can to help you and I am thinking of you today. Specifically, if your role was affected by this news, please utilize support across our three homes. In particular, I want to point you to the Games Org Support Posts under Home 1. They really work and I have a boatload of data to prove it. Home 1 - 🔗 AMIRSATVAT.COM: Our main hub provides 15 resources to assist you in finding work, featuring a fully updated design. - 🔗 Games Org Support Posts: Find a template at AMIRSATVAT.COM (Category 4, Resource 10). If you can provide information from your team (with their consent), I’ll help edit and disseminate the final product, reaching 100,000+ people. These posts are highly effective in increasing visibility, and we've done 98 of them. Home 2 - 🔗 Discord: Join us at discord.gg/amirsatvat, our live extension of community resources. With nearly 3,600 members, we are currently in an open-join phase. Home 3 - 🔗 LinkedIn: Our community here includes nearly 89,000 members, with 1-3 daily posts offering support and career assistance in the games industry. How the Broader Community Can Help: - Spread the Word: Reshares and comments on this post amplify the visibility of these resources. - Offer Support: Utilize the 13 ways listed on AMIRSATVAT.COM under "How You Can Help" to assist, or simply lend an ear or advice on our Discord server. - Join Our Movement: Volunteer with us at AMIRSATVAT.COM to support our colleagues in the games industry. Our network has facilitated over 2,000 jobs and 35,000 coaching conversations to date, the largest impact of any games organization on earth, and has been visited by millions of gamers lifetime.

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Horrible news to hear about KeokeN Interactive having laid off their entire team today. In a statement published on X, CEO Koen Deetman and managing director Paul Deetman said the Netherlands-based studio was forced into the decision after exhausting all possible options for completing planned projects or taking on other work. To those affected, please find a comprehensive list of resources, below: 🥇First, Discipline Games Jobs Resources: Over the past weeks I have created 9 (at time of writing) Games Jobs Resources to find jobs in a wide range of disciplines: 🎨 Art, Animation, VFX and UI: This resource contains around 1,000 jobs worldwide across all links. Link: https://lnkd.in/eKAHK7VF ⚙ Engineering and Programming This resource lists just over 1,800 jobs worldwide across all links. It also talks about interview tips and questions to practice. Link: https://lnkd.in/eYdxANFM 🕹 Quality Assurance: This resource lists over 450 QA jobs worldwide. This post also talks about the craft of QA and contains tips and interview practice. Link: https://lnkd.in/dwwVjZuc 📑 Game Production: This resource lists around 400 jobs worldwide. It also contains info about game production as a whole and GDC talks. Link: https://lnkd.in/gxDvFM-Z 📢 Marketing & Community: This resource lists around 400 jobs worldwide. It also gives an intro into game marketing and community management. Link: https://lnkd.in/e5MuViug 🎶 Audio and Sound Design: This resource lists around 190 jobs worldwide. Link: https://lnkd.in/eSkPSsWf 📠 Studio Support, HR, Recruitment and BizDev: This resource lists around 290 jobs worldwide. Link: https://lnkd.in/ePG57_7v ⚙ IT, Helpdesk and DevOps: This resource lists around 140 jobs worldwide. Link: https://lnkd.in/e8ZsuiZh 🎮 Game Design: This resource lists around 440 jobs worldwide. https://lnkd.in/dCv_hQXv 🥈 Second, the Ultimate list of Video Games Career Resources: This should be your one-stop shop for all information. My dear friend Amir Satvat maintains these documents, he is a legend for doing this - please check them out: https://amirsatvat.com/ 🥉 Third, do not give up. Ever. No matter how dark things may look right now, I KNOW you will get through this, you have got this! 👊 Remember you are not alone. If you need help, advice, or even an ear to listen, we're here for you. Always! ➡ A request to my community, please can I ask you to repost this post to your colleagues and friends, so that we can get as many into jobs as possible! And please comment if you or your studio are currently hiring - let's help each other! Much love ❤️ #layoffs #gamesindustry #jobsingames #keokeninteractive (source: https://lnkd.in/eWK2PgvX)

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Interested in Mobile Game Monetization ?

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⚠️CAUTIONARY SCAMMER - FRAUD COMPANY WARNING⚠️ It has been brought to my attention by the amazing Christophe Bettez that https://lnkd.in/gs8Qkpjz Is a PRETEND/FAKE GAMING COMPANY‼️ I recently made a post promoting the following job opportunities for the company: Principal Writer, Principal Narrative Designer, and Associate Writer. I came across these job opportunities via game search engine alerts, and shared them to our community. As it turns out “Luminary" does not have a website, an office, or actual staff except for the founder, Chad Tait.   Luminary also claims (pretends) to have amassed 500K$ in founding, yet the actual amount of pre-seed funding is undisclosed, and there are no investor names (source: https://lnkd.in/g3JvXmB7).   The company logo is also a black-and-white copy of an Australian digital design company (https://lnkd.in/gKq3NWU7), yet there is zero connections between the two, as "Luminary" is Florida-based.   Please be aware of this company, these fake job postings, and this pretend company. Be aware he has a second “fake company” GREY WOLF https://lnkd.in/g5uusrSS so avoid job opportunities from this one too! I reached out the “owner and CEO” Chad Tait, and his response was he was merely “practicing”, and as far as his explanation for posting fake job opportunities? He was “promoting”. Please DO NOT engage or send messages to him, I feel in my bones this was a case of someone being in over their head, and oblivious to the harm and dangers they may have caused. Instead, BLOCK the company, BLOCK him even. I am hoping that as a result of this uncovering that Chad will remove his “fake” company, stop posting non-existent job opportunities and be a better and more productive member of our community.

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Mobile game publishing visionary Philippe L. of TapNation discusses his web3 plans Sequence. Specifically, Philippe talks about how he'll leverage Sequence to level up retention, open new revenue streams, and focus on community, especially for their flagship casual and hypercasual games. TapNation will be doing this in two major web2 titles that have been launched and are played at scale every day. This means, h8ers, that there will be even further proof of how, with the right technology: 1) The player never needs to know what's on-chain and the user experience won't be disrupted 2) Metrics like retention and ARPU improve when web3 is leveraged for new mechanics 3) Casual gamers, who aren't hyper vigilante against web3 innovation like core gamers, can enjoy the benefits of what the blockchain can bring without vitriol In short, our work with TapNation and Arbitrum is going to show the benefits of this technology to every web2 developer on the planet. Let's rock and roll. Check out the full interview with Jon Jordan here: https://lnkd.in/gFhHEBbj

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Most businesses go from Real to Virtual. But reconnecting the virtual world to the real world is definitely not common. But it makes sense. That is why Cross The Ages is innovating in the entertainment space with the concept of ReVerse and real world assets RWA.

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Square Enix is celebrating a milestone for their unique RPG series, Octopath Traveler! The franchise has now surpassed a whopping 4 million copies sold worldwide. This news comes alongside the recent expansion of the series' availability. Both Octopath Traveler and its 2023 sequel, Octopath Traveler II, are now playable on Microsoft Xbox Game Pass for Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One. Additionally, the original game has finally arrived on Sony PlayStation 4 and 5, making the entire core series accessible on current consoles (excluding the mobile title "Champions of the Continent"). Interestingly, Square Enix confirmed the Octopath Traveler games will remain on Game Pass until January 2026 - a rare instance where a developer specifies the duration of a game's availability on the service. To further entice players, Octopath Traveler II just received a substantial update. It introduces a new game mode featuring powerful enemies and, for fans of the first game, a delightful crossover – the playable cast of the original Octopath Traveler joins the fray! Octopath Traveler II reached the 1 million sales mark in just three and a half months, while the original game hit 3 million sales in a little over four years (as of June 2023). It's unclear how much further sales figures have climbed since then. (source: https://lnkd.in/eAW3sQn3)

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Can Nyan Heroes Overthrow Overwatch? - Nyan Heroes was a ‘top 30 most played game’ on EGS while they had their Alpha live - They garnered over 200,000 downloads - an active user base of 35,000 DAU - 1.3 million registrations for its missions feature Overwatch 2 has been widely panned and nobody seems to like it as much as the original. Is this an opportunity to flip or overthrow a mainstay in the industry? Tony Valcarcel, the Head of Marketing at SHRAPNEL had this to say: “Flip and be successful can mean a lot of things. What I mean by that is that I sit in a studio with some of the most talented human beings that work in the video games industry, many of whom launched a title called BioShock Infinite that was one of the most beloved and best selling titles of its generation. BioShock Infinite killed that studio because it took a bazillion years and was a bazillion dollars. They could never make enough money to pay it back. I could see a product like Nyan Heroes being more successful through the lens of profit-to-loss ratio or efficiency of spend. I think there are lots of metrics by which you can view something as successful. The first Web3 game that gets 10 million monthly average users is going to be an insane, wild success. I don’t know that Nyan Heroes is going to be that, but I bet they build a business that makes tens of millions, maybe $100 million a year, a lot more profitably than a lot of the AAA studios that are out there making $50-100 million a year. I remember working on Mad Mobile, it was a $100 million a year business when I was there. There were about 78 people working on just Madden Mobile that didn’t include people like me on shared teams such as marketing. So I look at stuff like that with profitability and it’s just a lot greater with a team like Nyan.” Do you agree with Tony?

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Our new quarterly report is out. Pearls of wisdom here!

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We were on stage today at Advertising Week europe !! Gaming is a media : safe, compliant with market standard in formats, measurements & tracking. This is how brands have to approach Gaming to Maximize impact of their campaign in the most engaging media. Gameloft for brands #gameloft #gameloftforbrands #advertisingweek #combo #ingameadvertising

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Much busier day than yesterday. Today on GamesIndustry.biz... (Thursday, April 18th 2024) 1. Your must read today is Marie Dealessandri's superb interview with Swen Vincke on the success of Baldur's Gate 3, why Larian is moving on from it, and the industry's unstainable growth https://lnkd.in/eyQCnAtJ 2. You also need to read Jeffrey Rousseau's interview with Strange Scaffold CEO Xalavier Nelson Jr. on making money and keeping players happy (without exploding in the process) https://lnkd.in/eravtuAA 3. And please do give a read of my chat with Kim Parker Adcock about how the recruitment space is changing amid all the layoffs, and the events that led to the collapse of OPM https://lnkd.in/eSfnq28S 4. Clearly the Fallout series on Amazon Prime is encouraging people to play the games, as Fallout 4 was the best-selling game across Europe last week (with three other Fallout games in the top 10) https://lnkd.in/eXZaynVT 5. Panic announced the Playdate storefront has paid out over $500,000 to developers over the past year https://lnkd.in/eZ2AwvnZ 6. Lords of the Fallen dev CI Games reported record revenues for 2023 https://lnkd.in/eNkXAnYM 7. A recent survey by Game Developer indicates that 70% of devs are concerned about the sustainability of live service games https://lnkd.in/eCvATW2k 8. Void Interactive, the studio behind Ready or Not, confirmed it has been hacked but said no player or staff data was stolen https://lnkd.in/eEf9Jwyn That's it for today. Be sure to sign up to the GI Daily to get all this and more delivered to your inbox https://lnkd.in/eAkx_zen

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Did you spend your childhood battling Pokémon in games or slinging cards? Pokémon is the No. 1 media franchise. What’s your favourite Generation? 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜 • Region: Kanto • Themes: Science • Years: 1996 – 1999 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗜 • Region: Johto • Themes: Cultural Traditions • Years: 1999 – 2002 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗜𝗜 • Region: Hoenn • Themes: The Environment • Years: 2002 – 2006 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗩 • Region: Sinnoh • Themes: Time and Space • Years: 2006 – 2010 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗩 • Region: Unova • Themes: Truth and Ideals • Years: 2010 – 2013 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗜 • Region: Kalos • Themes: Life, Death and the Ecosystem • Years: 2013 – 2016 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗜𝗜 • Region: Alola • Themes: Day and Night • Years: 2016 – 2019 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗜𝗜𝗜 • Region: Galar • Themes: England and Its Culture • Years: 2019 – 2022 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗫 • Region: Paldea • Themes: Past vs. the Future • Years: 2022 – present My top pick? Generation I ❤️ Oddish /\/\ |\ \ \ \// / o_o\ \____/ /_\/_\ Sources: TITLEMAX®, Wikipedia

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The experts' guide to mobile games monetisation: Part two

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🎉 Today is special for me because (i) it's my birthday 🎂, and (ii) we're officially launching Nocturne Games! 🚀 ✨ My friend and co-founder Arnaud Aubry and I embarked on a new chapter a few months ago alongside our fantastic Partners, Bobby Wertheim, and Jason Della Rocca, all driven by our shared passion for gaming and entrepreneurship. And we’ve already had a front-row seat for some seismic shifts reshaping the gaming industry. 🎮 Gaming, a $185B market, outpaces movies, on-demand video, and music combined, engaging nearly half the global population every month. 🎨 Indie gaming, propelled by AI, cheap game engines, digital distribution, and community-led marketing, democratizes success. The potential is immense, with 2023 seeing four indie titles among the top ten earners. ✌️ But there are some big challenges to take on. The studio-publisher relationship often suffers from unbalanced revenue shares, opaque terms, and IP conflicts, stifling creativity. Equity models falter with premium games, lacking clear exits and necessitating tangible publishing support. The gaming landscape needs innovative models that respect the unique dynamics of indie game development. 🎯 At Nocturne, we invest in unique, replayable games through revenue sharing. We provide capital and self-publishing support to indie studios, prioritizing fairness and community-validation strategies. We aim to transform promising concepts into blockbuster hits, offering up to €1.5M per game for a share of the game's revenue. 📝 Since January, we've received around 700 game submissions, in no small part thanks to our amazing Game Scout, Magdalena Buss 🔜 Mad Games Show, reflecting the vibrant creativity in the indie game community. We're in due diligence with 4 of these games and are about to sign our first title. We aim to invest in one new game monthly, quickly bringing fresh titles to gamers worldwide. 💡 In addition to the bright future of indie gaming, I’m also a big believer in building in public, so after this initial quiet period, I’m eager to start showing people what Nocturne is all about. 📘 You can start finding out more in our first article in the comments below (thanks, LinkedIn algorithm!). This piece begins an exciting series where the Nocturne team and I will share our journey, insights, and progress. 🙏 I’d like to extend my heartfelt thanks to Joël Schillio, Caroline Raimbault, and the entire Alasta team for their incredible work on our brand identity and website! A special shoutout to Jean de La Rochebrochard, Nicolas Essayan, and Fabrice Grinda for being early believers, along with over 50 investors, including Yoann Lopez, Paul Guillemin, Alexandre Berriche, Marie Brayer, Pierre Mugnier, Francescu Santoni, Nicolas Steegmann, Virgile Raingeard, and Guillaume Moubeche. And, of course, my deepest gratitude to Francois Masciopinto for his unwavering support, kindness, and dedication since day one. 📸 Team picture by the fabulous Corentin Grange

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2024 marks 4 years of running #PitchYaGame. Four years of us voluntarily providing a platform and voice on X (formerly Twitter), for game developers all over the world to pitch their games for the world to see. 🌐 The Journey 🌐 Looking back on our journey it's been incredible. To know that we have made huge movements in the game discovery space. That we've helped people hone their pitching skills, and that our events have thrust so many games into the spotlight. Since we launched back in May 2020 we've seen 11,000+ pitches, from all over the world; from ~778 locations across 124 countries. Well over half the world! When I had the initial idea, I knew in the back of mind it was going to do well, but never realised the full extent. It's evolved over the years, with the OG awards show and now sitting perfectly formed as a twice a year pitch event, which was pivotal in how it's been received. With an average of 5-6 months between rounds, it gives developers the perfect opportunity to focus their efforts on working on their games, and gives them a platform with which to shout about their achievements during that time, giving the world a snapshot of their journey as they progress. It's even better seeing games that have pitched in the past that go on from strength to strength, but most importantly hitting that 1.0 release. I still find it all a real 'pinch me' kind of realisation. As when you think about it, at its heart, #PitchYaGame is a hashtag. But it's so much more than that, it's a hashtag powered event that caught on, took the game dev world by storm, and to this date is still going strong. Long may it continue. 🎭 New Change 🎭 Plus with the introduction of our all new PYG Direct showcase this year, we're excited to be changing stuff up that little bit more. Our direct will be airing 2-3 weeks post June 7th. 📣 How You Can Help 📣 Which brings me to today. If you can help us on our mission to reach even more developers across the world, then we would be eternally grateful. So please share our event with your communities; your spaces. I would also love the opportunity to chat to people more about our journey and to see PYG being covered even more in games press and media throughout 2024 (see https://lnkd.in/eKjx2qGi - a huge thank you to everyone that has covered or included a PYG pitch in their media since 2020), so if this is something you can help with, or help source then please reach out. Some ideas for coverage we'd love to see; Announcement of the live rounds, we run 2 rounds, next one is on June 7th and then November 1st. Announcement of our new upcoming PYG Direct showcase. Coverage of games pitched on June 7th. Coverage of the event itself. Interviews with myself and/or the team. Thanks for your continued support! Web: https://PitchYaGame.com Press: https://lnkd.in/eKjx2qGi Mission: https://lnkd.in/eqNSVFYc #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGames #VideoGamesIndustry #GamesIndustry #GamesPress #PitchEvents

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The latest movers in mobile here:

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