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Marketing Your Video Game Outside of Game Marketplaces & App Stores

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Todd Harris knows how to leverage effective video game marketing strategies to get games in front of players. As the former COO and Co-Founder of Hi-Rez Studios, he spent 15 years making games and marketing them to gamers — with the studio’s games reaching 150 million players. (At

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FastSpring at Game Developers Conference 2024!

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Ready to join the game industry’s premier professional event? If so, join FastSpring at Game Developers Conference 2024 at Booth S1931! Join us at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from March 18-22nd, for an extraordinary event dedicated to continually defining market innovations and providing insight into the future of games.

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How to Sell a Mobile App or Game Outside App Stores

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If you’re not sure how to sell an app direct to consumer (D2C) outside the app stores — or if you’re looking for a new way to monetize your mobile app or game — you may be wondering what options you have. Various tools you can use to monetize apps and games outside app stores. Those fees also apply to in-game purchases as well.

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Ikea Taps Meta’s Tech for New In-Store AR Game in Sweden

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Designed to make children’s time in the store more enjoyable and get more people to care about keeping our oceans clean, the game was developed in partnership with Meta and Stockholm-based immersive tech company Warpin Reality using Meta’s Spark AR technology. “As

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Deloitte: UGC and Gaming Offer Brands New Opportunities to Build Connections

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Consumer behaviors today are more nuanced than that, with younger generations especially engaging with a “blended and inter-dependent tapestry of entertainment” that includes streaming video, social media, music and gaming as well as traditional television and movies.

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Is What Epic Wants for App Stores What Other Game Developers Actually Want?

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As mobile game and app developers gasp for air under a player-gouging 30% duopoly-tax on nearly all mobile game revenue worldwide, Epic Games has emerged as the de facto leader of the gaming community in the fight for open computing on mobile. There were no gatekeepers — just a computer, a player, and a game.

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Retailers Look to AI as They Grapple with ‘Pricing Game of Chicken’

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The survey of 100 retail CFOs, representing companies with revenues ranging from $250 million to $3 billion or more , was conducted in October 2023 by Rabin Roberts Research , an independent market research firm, for BDO. Can Retailers Win a Pricing ‘Game of Chicken’? “We

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