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Xsolla, a global video game commerce company, shares insights that 40 of the top 100 mobile games have launched their Web Shop using Xsolla's solution
Read More »[From the industry] Xsolla powers web shop launches for 40 of the top 100 mobile games
Do we need a secondary market for digital video games?
Nicholas Gilot, co-CEO of the Ultra.io gaming hub, insists there’s considerable interest in secondary digital games sales and publishers don’t ever have to lose out
Read More »Mobile Developer Seeks Profit For Fun and Games: Amuzo Games on how to make a profit
After three years working with the biggest hyper-casual game publishers in the business, Peter Phillips, MD of Amuzo Games, has some sage advice for small developers looking to make an elusive profit
Read More »The Cycle of Toxicity: being safe and inclusive means not taking the easy way out
Mike Pappas, CEO of Modulate, talks about ban evasion and how you can still foster a safe and inclusive community for your video game
Read More »Winning the toxicity arms race
Mike Pappas, CEO of Modulate, explains how automated voice moderation has a natural advantage over methods of combatting abuse through text
Read More »How passion puts the quality into quality assurance
Room 8 on bringing exceptional quality to quality assurance
Read More »The dollars and sense of prioritizing child safety online (or, how to not be fined half a billion dollars)
The majority of the costs relate to COPPA violations by Epic; and reveal an evolution to the way the FTC views COPPA protections and child safety issues, which every online platform should be taking notice of
Read More »Nintendo’s US TV ad spend was higher than PlayStation and Xbox in August
Nintendo spent the most amount of money on US gaming industry TV ad spend in August, according to new figures from real-time TV ad measurement company iSpot.tv (via GamesBeat), spending an estimated $4.5m. The platform holder aired 14 adverts over 1,600 times, collecting around 230.6m impressions. The biggest ad was …
Read More »Analysis: TV ad spend in the lucrative toys-to-life space
Generation Media’s assistant media executive Joe Phelan investigates the growing toys-to-life craze and the ad support accompanying its continued rise during 2015/16. As gaming sits on the precipice of VR, it is more apparent than ever that the way we interact with gaming media is consistently evolving. Over the past …
Read More »Sony debuts musical PlayStation 4 ad
Want to know what the ‘PS4 Life’ looks like? If Sony is to be believed it features a lot of dancing with video game characters, including some guardians from Activision’s hit online shooter, Destiny. That’s according to a new advert – which appears to have been pitched as a musical …
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