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Walmart Releases Software Development Kit to Simplify In-Game Commerce Integrations

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Walmart has teamed up with gaming development platform Unity to offer its developers the ability to integrate Walmart commerce functionality into the games and apps they build. We’re excited to be able to give Unity developers the option of another new revenue stream while keeping players within their games and experiences.”

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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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Amazon Anywhere Offers In-Game Shopping for Real-World Products

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Amazon has debuted a new immersive shopping functionality called Amazon Anywhere that allows customers to discover and buy physical products from Amazon within virtual environments such as video games, augmented reality applications and mobile apps. Screenshot from Niantic’s new game, Peridot.

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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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Industry Shake-Up: 2023 Commerce Trends To Rock Your World

Speaker: Ashlee Aldridge - Reach Partners LLC | Bill Mirabito - Chameleon Collective | Ronak Shah - PSA Retail & CPG, Amazon Web Services | Wayne Teigen - Pivotree

From social commerce to BOPIS, the name of the game is to meet and sell to customers wherever they are, through multiple channels. Companies must expand on the trends that exploded during the pandemic if they want to see continued growth in their businesses while facing a recessionary economy.

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

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Can Retailers Win a Pricing ‘Game of Chicken’? “We Retailers have been caught in a pricing ‘game of chicken’ that will almost certainly continue throughout the year ahead,” wrote the report’s authors. It exists and it can help you, so it’s hard to align to a policy that bars it altogether.”

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