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Take-Two's CEO on Pandemic's Impact on Games: „This Change is Permanent”
The pandemic changed the gaming industry forever - Take-Two's CEO Strauss Zelnick commented on the past financial year in an interview with Gameindustry.biz.
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Gabriela Sicińska
May 23, 2021
Video Game Industry Will See a Dip in 2021, Newzoo's Report Claims
Newzoo claims that the video game market will see a decline in revenue compared to last year. Reasons for such assumptions include Apple's policies and the universal deficit of chips.
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Angelika Kaldus
May 17, 2021
Video Games Industry Is Bigger Than Film, Sports and Music
The gaming market has overtaken the movie industry - valued at nearly $180 billion in 2020 - and Gen Z values it more than sports.
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Angelika Kaldus
May 11, 2021
„Funding the Dream in Gaming” Webinar Will Teach You Exactly That
How to obtain funding from the largest venture capital companies for your own gaming project? This is what LVP, Google or BetaDwarf representatives are going to talk about during the upcoming webinar titled „Funding the dream in gaming”.
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Karol Laska
December 15, 2020
Video Games are Ready for Netflix Model, Claims Analyst
Futuresource Consulting analyst Morris Garrard argues in a recent report that the video game industry is ready for Netflix's business model - a subscription that provides access to an extensive catalogue of games at a fixed monthly price.
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Bart Swiatek
September 29, 2020
Over 3 Billion Inhabitants of Earth are Gamers
According to the latest report of the analytical company DFC Intelligence, gamer represent as much as 40% of the world's population.
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August 15, 2020
It Takes Only a Week to Make a Diablo Clone These Days
One youtuber decided to prove that a week's work is enough to create a fully functional diablo clone. It turns out that this is possible provided that we use Unreal Engine and ready tools, models and maps.
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Bart Swiatek
August 11, 2020
We Don't Need E3 - Analysts on Success of Publishers' Conference
Analysts from SuperData and Fancensus analysed the popularity of this year's game presentations. The reports leave no doubt: the big E3 style fair is unnecessary - at least for big publishers.
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Jacob Blazewicz
July 30, 2020
Gaming Industry With Significant Growth in 2020
According to forecasts for 2020, the pandemic will not prevent large increases in value of the video game industry, which is to generate revenues of nearly $160 billion in that period. The mobile market is expected to grow the most this year, which will largely contribute to the global number of active players exceeding 2.7 billion.
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Michael Kulakowski
May 12, 2020
European Gamedevs are Afraid of the Crisis; Some May Not Survive
European Games Developer Federation conducted a survey on the condition of European gamedev companies and their concerns about the coronavirus crisis. 17% of such companies are worried that they may not survive three months. Small studios are in the worst position.
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Bart Swiatek
April 23, 2020
E3 2020 Canceled Without the Announced Online Event
Contrary to previous assurances, the E3 2020 organizers will not prepare an online event to present the most important announcements in the schedule of the canceled fair.
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Michael Kulakowski
April 7, 2020
Bethesda Drops Its June Conference and Announcement of New Games
Unlike other developers and publishers, Bethesda has no intention of organizing an online event, stream or show in June that would replace the company's traditional conference at E3.
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Michael Kulakowski
April 1, 2020
Game Refunds on GOG - Developers Share Their Concerns
The new refund policy at GOG.com has triggered a wave of online discussions about the validity of this solution. Developers, especially the independent ones, are mostly against. The feelings of the players are extremely mixed.
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Peter Doron
February 28, 2020
Gaming Disorder Survey Reveals Most Addictive Video Games
Clutch conducted a survey on „gaming disorder”, a new disease to be included in the International Classification of Diseases in 2022. Thanks to it, we got to know potentially the most addictive video games.
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Peter Doron
January 13, 2020
Wolfeye, New Team From Arkane Studios Founder, Will Announce First Game on TGA
The founder and former head of Arkane Studios (Dishonored, Prey) introduced his new development team, Wolfeye Studios. The studio's debut game will be shown for the first time at the TGA Awards ceremony, next month.
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Michael Kulakowski
November 20, 2019
Co-founder of Devolver Digital: If we're Going to be Drug Dealers, Let's Offer People Psychedelics
At Reboot Develop conference, Devolver Digital co-founder Mike Wilson compared developers to drug dealers and their productions to addictive drugs. He also asked for thoughtful serving of content that would broaden the horizons of players, and not only take their time and money.
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Paul Wozniak
November 5, 2019
Oxford University: Obsessive Playing is Not Illness
Research by the Oxford Internet Institute has shown that there is currently no evidence that excessive gambling is a illness. Instead, they argue that it is merely a symptom of wider problems unrelated to video games.
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Christian Pieniazek
October 22, 2019
Industry Wants to Remove Gaming Disorder From IDC-11
In response to the World Health Organisation's decision to classify gaming addiction as a disease, the American ESA, in agreement with several other institutions, issued a statement calling for the withdrawal of the controversial decision.
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May 29, 2019
Excessive Gaming Officially Recognised as Illness
The World Health Organisation has officially adopted the new version of the Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. The controversial gaming disorder was added to the list.
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Adrian Werner
May 26, 2019
GDC 2019 report: PC remains developers' favorite platform
According to the GDC report for 2019, based on a surver sent to four thousand developers from around the world, PC remains the most attractive platform for game development.
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Michael Kulakowski
January 26, 2019