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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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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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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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Black Friday Football Post-Game Report: A Win for Amazon, but Room for Growth

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This Black Friday the only rushes that were covered the following day were those that took place on the football field during the NFL’s first-ever Black Friday game. An NFL game on Black Friday would have once been considered anathema (and a recipe for historically low viewership). A Columbia shoppable ad during the game.

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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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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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Virsona Teases Experiential Gaming Concept with NYC Pop-up

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Virsona, a social video gaming and entertainment concept, has opened an experiential, semi-permanent pop-up “speakeasy” inside 787 Coffee on West 30 th Street in New York City. This is an entirely new category in the world of experiential entertainment that connects people through the largest form of entertainment, gaming.

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