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Digital card games revive stagnant retail business, reaching $714MM by 2014E
Originally invented as a ‘casual’ game to play in between role-playing sessions at tournaments, collectible card games (CCGs) today are one of the fastest growing segments among online games. In 2011 worldwide sales totaled $2.1 billion, after...
- Posted 13 years ago
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2012: the year the crowds rose to power
In spite of the fact that Wikipedia was years ago found to be as accurate as the Britannica, it was dismissed as inaccurate and unreliable compared to other texts that were created on the stable, traditional foundation...
- Posted 13 years ago
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Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater – has Bigpoint just made a big mistake?
Bigpoint today took a a broom to its management and its business. Out are Bigpoint veterans Nils Holger-Henning and brothers Philip and Tobias Reiseberger. Out too is the entire mobile business with the loss of 29 jobs. Everyone...
- Posted 13 years ago
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Kickstarter: After the Kick but before the Start
I'm the creative director at Stoic and we've been working on The Banner Saga after a shockingly successful Kickstarter campaign. We set out to raise $100,000 to help us expand our game content and ending up with...
- Posted 13 years ago
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Which ad service should I use?
Yesterday, a commenter on the popular How to make $3,000 per day from advertising in your free-to-play game called Gauravjalui made the following comment: For my next game I don’t want to use iAds and adMob also...
- Posted 13 years ago
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What does a big Kickstarter project look like in prize form?
The Banner Saga was certainly not the biggest campaign Kickstarter has ever seen. Double Fine had 80k backers, Wasteland 2 had 60k, Shadowrun had over 30k, not to mention non-games. But unlike these larger, somewhat established developers...
- Posted 13 years ago
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Penny Arcade leads the way
Yesterday, my Twitter feed was full of the news that Penny Arcade, the successful ad-funded business, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to remove the need for it to sell ads. The response was pretty negative. Words like...
- Posted 13 years ago