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  • Gameforge revealed some stats – they are useful

    I wasn’t at the Games Analytics and Business Intelligence in London today, but analyst Nick Parker was. He tweeted some useful metrics from a talk from Alexander Samak of Gameforge. #GABI14 Gameforge – early revenues in a...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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  • Beyond the microtransaction: how players spend

    Games publishers increasingly find that offering higher priced options results in an overall increase in revenue without cannibalizing on overall sales. In this guest post, Massimiliano Silenzi of Onebip asks, have Mobile Payments moved beyond microtransactions? And...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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  • Why Microsoft bought Minecraft

    Earlier today, Nicholas published an article explaining why he didn’t expect Microsoft to buy Minecraft developer Mojang. As you probably know by now, he was wrong; Microsoft is actually buying the Swedish company for $2.5 billion. Nicholas...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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  • Last chance to book September’s GAMESbrief Surgeries

    Every month, we offer a limited number of GAMESbrief Surgeries: one-on-one consultancy sessions with Nicholas Lovell, one of the games industry’s most in-demand experts, in which he’ll help you with any issues you’re having with your game,...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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  • Why I think Microsoft won’t buy Minecraft

    The press is full of news that Microsoft is about to drop between $2 billion and $2.5 billion on Mojang, the company behind Minecraft that is majority-owned by Marcus Persson, also known as Notch. I think it...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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  • Why do people care about your game?

    Some thoughts on the intersection between design and marketing from Zoya Street. For more, see the previous post in this series, What Kind of a Relationship is This? Marketing and game design are not entirely separate from...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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  • PvP could increase game revenue by 510%

    This post originally took a different form as a longer guest post. However, after publishing we learned that the content was largely taken from a presentation by Kongregate. We’ve changed the post to reflect the source of...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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