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Supercell - the legendary studio behind Clash of Clans, Brawl Stars, and Clash Royale - is launching their first new game in five years on May 29th!Squad Busters continues the Tencent-owned studio's theme of approachable competitive games perfected for the mobile form factor. The core loop features 10 squads of Supercell characters battling it out to collect gems and be the last squad standing (The Verge compared it to a mini-MOBA)Supercell has possibly the highest quality control of any game studio - before settling on Squad Busters after multiple rounds of regional testing, the studio soft launched and killed three other titles. Who knows how many more concepts never even made it that far?Through its existing titles, Supercell consistently generates around $2B annually but growth has stagnated in recent years. If Squad Busters is a success, its likely to dramatically re-energize not only the existing portfolio, but the mobile market as a whole - driving growth not just for Tencent Games, but also Google Play, Apple, AppLovin, Unity, and others.#gaming #mobilegames #gamedev #mobile #mobilegaming

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🎉 Big News! Playzia x Love Island 🚀We’re thrilled to announce our new partnership with ITV Studios, the creators behind the global reality TV sensation, Love Island! Together, we’re bringing the excitement of Love Island to the world of iGaming with an exclusive series of 10 online games over the next 3 years.Here’s what’s coming:🎰 3 titles launching before July 2025, just in time for Love Island UK’s Summer season.🔥 A mix of slot, crash, and instant play games, designed to captivate players with innovative mechanics.🌍 Games available in key markets worldwide (excluding the US and Canada), reaching Love Island’s massive global audience.The series kicks off with:💓 Love Island: Love in a Spin—featuring Mega Symbols and Win Multipliers for thrilling gameplay.⚡ Love Island: Instant Match—a fast-paced Instant Game for quick rewards.🚐 Love Island: Love Bus—an adrenaline-packed Crash Game.This collaboration blends Playzia’s expertise in gameplay innovation with Love Island’s iconic brand, creating unforgettable experiences for fans and players alike.#Playzia #LoveIsland #LovetoPlay #iGamingInnovation #PartnershipAnnouncementRead everything about it here: https://lnkd.in/dReQDSYi

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Another month, another Metroidvania Game Jam, this time themed around Nurturing! Out of 43 entries, our entry, Kami: The Great Guardian, placed 5th overall! Please, everyone, go give the game a play as we had a blast making it! https://lnkd.in/gxYawSeb (I hope the link works properly, and if not I will post again with just the link)For the rest of the categories, we ranked 3rd in the Metroidvania category that tested our ability to construct a game within the design principles that constitute one. In Relevance To The Theme Picked, a category which measured how well we integrated the theme into our game in a creative or interesting way, we placed 4th. In the category of Enjoyment, our game ranked 8th. In Sensory, the category that measured how the game appealed to the eyes and ears and the atmosphere it created, we ranked 10th. And in Execution of how our game's concepts were put together, i.e. did it have bugs, was the idea creative and original, was the level design, map, narrative, and worldbuilding well implemented, we ranked 6th!As always, this game jam was a blast to participate in, and this time, I was reminded of a lesson I learned back in college: clarity. Clarity within my documentation as the Narrative Lead. While I had managed to work fine within the month time frame and get all my work done on time, my lack of clarity within the visual descriptions of environments, enemies, and environmental hazards set the team back. I managed to rework my documents fast enough, but the damage was already done for the first week of production. A hard lesson to relearn, but one I needed to as we moved forward, and currently move forward to polish this game and get it ready for a Steam release!#videogames #gamejam

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🎉 Another Milestone Achieved: Buffalo Power Claw: Hold and Win is Here! 🐃Proud to share our latest release, Buffalo Power Claw: Hold and Win, a game that showcases the perfect blend of classic slot mechanics and innovative features.This isn’t just a game — it’s a step forward in creating immersive player experiences. With max wins up to 6992x, engaging Bonus Claw Games, and our dynamic Hold & Win mechanics, this release raises the bar for what players can expect.A huge shoutout to the incredible team at Clawbuster for their dedication and creativity. This is our first step into Hold & Win games, and we’re just getting started.Let’s keep innovating, growing, and delivering unparalleled experiences in the iGaming world. Onwards and upwards!#igamingbusiness #igaming #gambling

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🎮 Exciting News from The Game Awards 2024! 🏆The nominations are here, celebrating the best in gaming creativity and innovation. Thanks to Geoff Keighley and the entire The Game Awards team for making this event the highlight of the year!Here’s what stood out:🏆 Content Creator Spotlight:The "Content Creator of the Year" nominees—CaseOh, IlloJuan, Techno Gamerz, TypicalGamer, and Usada Pekora—showcase the incredible influence of creators globally.🎮 Brand Dominance:-Sony Interactive Entertainment: Leading with 16 nominations-Square Enix and Xbox Game Studios: 12 nominations each-SEGA: 11 nominations🚀 Indie Success:Balatro, created by a single developer, earned five nominations, including Game of the Year, proving that individual creators can make a huge impact.🔄 Evolving Categories:With DLCs and expansions (Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree) competing for Game of the Year, the industry recognizes the importance of ongoing content.💡 Key Takeaway:The nominations highlight a gaming landscape where both big brands and indie creators thrive. It’s an exciting time for storytelling, innovation, and community building!I’m voting for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth as Game of the Year—what about you? The voting link is in the comments—let’s make our voices heard!#GameAwards2024 #GamingInnovation #ContentCreation #FF7Rebirth #Vote #Brandpartnerships

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We are thrilled to announce that PixCapital has invested in Look North World, a new-gen developer and publisher of UGC games, in its $4.5 million Seed round. We’re proud to be part of Alexander Seropian, Patrick Moran 🔜 GamesCom and their team’s journey alongside Lvp, Bandai Namco 021 Fund, Overwolf, CRUSH Ventures, Hasbro and Hibbard Road Partners. We believe the next most valuable titles are likely to come from #UGC creators, and that there’s no better team to build the reference publisher of UGC content than LNW.🔸About Look North World (https://looknorth.world/): LNW is a studio and publisher of UGC games on platforms like #Fortnite, #Roblox and #Minecraft that allow experimentation, quick iteration, and access to massive audiences. With 15 (!) games already in development and major IP deals, LNW is quickly pushing the boundaries of how UGC games are created and marketed.🌱 UGC offers fertile grounds for the next $bn IPsWe believe that UGC games’ combination of shorter development cycles and fast community-based iterations are solid foundations to creating massive successes. This round will enable LNW to accelerate the creation of original games while fueling LNW’s latest initiative: the Creator Label, designed to support and elevate individual creators to make games and take risks on unique titles. The program provides numerous benefits to the next generation of creators such as guaranteed advances, long-term IP ownership, marketing budgets, and a team of industry experts offering artistic and technical support.💬 Why we investedLNW is led by a stellar team with Alexander Seropian, former co-founder at Bungie, Patrick Moran 🔜 GamesCom, Jason Pecho, Kyle Marks who have already pioneered and disrupted several genres, and we are confident that LNW will rise from the industry-wide shift towards smaller games with the reference player in UGC. LNW has already developed and published 5 games on #Unreal Engine for Fortnite (UEFN) and 2 Premium Mods for #ARK: Survival Ascended, and collaborations with some of the biggest names of the industry. Their first creator label games, Dream Job Tycoon and the Premium Mod ARK x Power Rangers, have been wildly successful with 800k players. Thank you to the fantastic team at Look North World, and Charline Demange and Fabrice Epstein ✨.

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Painfully long is right. 😲 It look 8 years to build Concord and about 2 weeks for Sony to axe it. This is a strong example of what's wrong with the games industry, especially in the AAA space. How can a game remain relevant and feel innovative to audiences when it takes that many years to develop? And exactly how high of a bar do you have to hit in terms of quality and scope to meet player expectations after that length of time?! Indie studios can continue to lead the way in demonstrating 'what good looks like' for an industry that desperately needs a re-write. I firmly believe we can deliver outstanding experiences for our audiences by combining sustainable development with scalable growth strategies. In summary, we need to be embracing shorter, iterative and more cost effective development times, and identify scalable strategies to maintain Live Services.#indiegames #gamedevelopment #gamedev #innovation Sony Simply Sweet Games #gameindustry #videogames

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🚀 How to stand out and succeed as a new studio🎙️ Rahul V Chudasama, Head of Business Development atBlaze Gaming, on what new studios need to have in place if they are to go up against the 500+ other developers in the markethttps://lnkd.in/dKHWMs7T

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🧙Guess who joined the wizarding world? We’re so excited to announce our partnership with Warner Bros. Games to bring safe, curated, and accessible modding to Hogwarts Legacy.Starting January 30th, Steam (Valve corporation) and Epic Games players of the critically acclaimed open-world RPG will have access to immersive new quests, expanded dungeons and character customizations directly within the game.Alongside this, the #CurseForge-powered Hogwarts Legacy Creator Kit will be available for in-game creators to harness their artistry for millions of gamers to enjoy.This partnership marks yet another monumental step in empowering gamers and creators alike through UGC, and we can’t wait to see how the community transforms Hogwarts Legacy into a game of infinite possibilities.Read more: https://lnkd.in/dJpRteBs #GameDev #HogwartsLegacy #GamingIndustry #GamingNews

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Unlikely Hits:SubnauticaThere is a very practiced tendency, especially on Linkedin itself, that most people in the gaming industry will write breathlessly about successes on a large scale like it was inevitable and the writer’s only knowledge starts after the success happened.When this happens…it causes many people to say “of course it succeeded and we always knew”.Uh, no.After witnessing this process with Larian Studios and their full release of #Baldur’sgate3, it caused me to write not-so-kind words to the post and article writers of that time’s moment. Having followed and owned every Larian game for years myself, that was truly a long process of nearly twenty years of that studio earning ground and technique in game-after-game that was released. They are not alone in this manner, I can think that groups like Obsidian Entertainment and Owlcat Games also had this slow gain on their methods and talents, then declared ‘overnight’ successes.How similar this type of treatment was was for Unknown Worlds Entertainment when they started and people downed their efforts as a mere ‘mod’ studio.In fact, I find it remarkable that a studio that began with the premise of blending FPS with RTS elements for sheer idea to see if they could make it work…did a radical and unexpected turn: their subsequent releases have nothing to do at all with where they began. Case in point: Subnautica has only really the first person viewpoint in common with Natural Selection. It's a survival, crafting and open world with a very deep mystery happening that the player encounters dynamically as they do their interest in the game.Also not in space, but beneath the waves.The entire combination of those elements in a single player and very private way to roll out the splendor of what they have in store for those players? It's masterful.Yes, from a ‘mere’ modding group. The key is now a buzz word that is often spoken but rarely done: Immersive.You are not on a leaderboard, you are dealing with achievement races. You are ever present in the world that you dictate as you play.Some numbers as always to cement things:(as usual, these are estimates from data I have available and checked across other sources. Currently limited to steam sales only)Estimated 6+ million sales of #Subnautica.Read that over again and realize that is one platform only. From a group who worked to get that point and was discounted at every turn.Take a bow, Unknown Worlds Entertainment, you set the example in modern times of what Vision+Craft can accomplish.#unlikelyhits #subnautica #thelittletrainthatcould

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