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At a Glance On a global level, mobile titles like Honkai: Star Rail and Roblox were extremely popular with players throughout 2023. A new report from data.ai shows a slight dip in the mobile game industry in 2023. Player spending hit $107.31 billion last year (down 2 percent from 2022), continuing a downward trend that began in 2021. Despite those decreases, it’s up nearly 7 percent from 2020’s $100.53 billion.China led the charge on that front with $37.6 billion in player spending. It was ...

The upcoming DICE Awards offer one final look back and ceremony for 2023’s biggest games. Nominees for the 2024 DICE Awards have been revealed, and the list is headlined by 2023’s biggest titles. Insomniac Games’ Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has the most nominations at nine overall. Along with Game of the Year, it’s nominated for Game Direction, Best Character (Miles Morales), and Animation. Remedy’s Alan Wake II trails behind with eight nominations, including Art Direction, Character (Saga Anderson), ...

Marvel Snap developer Second Dinner has raised $100 million to continue supporting the lucrative card battler while creating new titles. The Series B investment round was led by Griffin Gaming Partners and according to Second Dinner co-founder and chief development office, Ben Brode, will perhaps allow the studio to diversify its portfolio. “Most of Second Dinner is focused on Marvel Snap but we’ve also got a couple other things cookin’,” he said. Brode previously served as lead designer on Bli ...

At a Glance Should Hi-Fi Rush and Sea of Thieves do come to non-Xbox consoles, it Microsoft’s games strategy into question. Xbox exclusives Sea of Thieves and Hi-Fi Rush may be coming to non-Xbox consoles sometime this year. Sources speaking to Game File’s Stephen Totilo claim the free-to-play pirate game is being looked at for the PlayStation 5. Notably, it’d be the first time an Xbox game came to a PlayStation console. As for Hi-Fi Rush, rumors over the weekend claimed a marquis Xbox game w ...

At a Glance NVIDIA Ace lets studios use AI tools to fully generate in-game NPCs, from lip-syncing to conversations and animation. Ubisoft and Tencent have taken further steps to incorporate AI into game development. Both studios have begun to use NVIDIA’s AI-generation tool, Ace. The PC company broke the news itself at CES 2024. Both companies are some of the first major studios to use the technology, which also includes NetEase and Genshin Impact studio MiHoYo. Ace was formally announced las ...

At a Glance Seth “Dopply” Fulkerson decided to make Arzette after remastering the code of the often-mocked CD-i Zelda games. Fulkerson recruited key creatives who worked on the CD-i games to contribute to this passion project. It’s nothing new in the video game industry to hear that a developer was inspired by Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda series. But what if they’re inspired by two games that Nintendo itself would rather stay buried in the annals of history? Seedy Eye Software is answering ...

At a Glance In another life, Until Dawn would be a Sony London game that launched for the then-upcoming PlayStation Move controller. 2015’s Until Dawn was a breakout game for developer Supermassive Games, but the initial version once belonged to Sony’s London studio. Anonymous ex-staff speaking to Time Extension about how the title was once a launch game for the PlayStation Move. That report also gives a glimpse at its sudden cancellation and changing hands. “We were meant to be leading the c ...

The Brazilian gaming community has grown significantly in recent decades, and it’s now one of the largest video game markets in the world. With that, more game developers have grown across Brazil, releasing well-received titles like Dandara, Dodgeball Academia, and Chroma Squad as recent standouts. For developer Rogue Snail, which launched Relic Hunters Legend into Early Access, they view the release of their ambitious action RPG shooter as a statement for the growing Brazilian game dev communi ...

The Meta Quest platform continued to lose momentum in 2023. Omdia analysis of Sensor Tower data reveals that the associated app was downloaded by a combined 7.5 million iOS and Android device users in 2023. This is a 25% reduction on 2022 where it achieved a record 10.3 million downloads (see: Over 10 million people downloaded the Meta Quest app in 2022, up 27% on 2021). It also marked the second consecutive drop in Christmas Day downloads, which fell to just over 400,000 – 18% lower than in 20 ...

At a Glance Game marketing on TikTok rewards authenticity over polish. Using TikTok yourself is essential to understanding what makes for a good video. Don’t overexert yourself while chasing success on the platform. In today’s competitive attention economy, marketing your game through social media has never been harder–but the tools to find people have never been better. Avenues like Twitter and YouTube are well-trod, and there’s plenty of advice out there for maximizing awareness on these ...