Source The game industry has undergone a major change in the way that content is produced and consumed in the last few years. We have seen expansive virtual worlds, “forever” games, and user-generated content (UGC) platforms. Games like Grand Theft Auto V, Roblox, Fortnite, and others are long-lasting, broadly accessible across platforms, and contain a…
There are only a few gaming studios in the world that are capable of releasing back-to-back global blockbuster hits. Supercell used to be the Western poster child with five consecutive releases of billion dollar titles — Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, Clash Royale, and Brawl Stars. miHoYo is now on a similar trajectory…
This report was originally written in July 2022 for one of Naavik’s consulting clients and was lightly updated for 2023. If your team would like to explore working with Naavik on market research, please contact us. We’d be excited to chat with you. With the rise of new marketplace and ecosystem attempts – Steam competitors,…
This mobile F2P genre report is the first of many in Naavik’s Open Gaming Research Initiative. Every alternate month, we will perform a qualitative and quantitative analysis of a certain mobile F2P genre to suss out various current state observations, interesting new subgenre trends, potential future genre predictions, and more. This report was written by…
By Moritz Baier-Lentz & Kishen Patel / Lightspeed Gaming This deep dive was written by our partners at Lightspeed Venture Partners and originally published here. To date, Lightspeed has invested over $350 million into the gaming industry — including with many founders who have led the creation of games like Fortnite, Call of Duty, League…
Alpha Dog Games, a Nova Scotia-based game studio and subsidiary of ZeniMax Media, is the developer behind Mighty Doom, the only mobile-first rendition leveraging the famous DOOM IP, which turns 30 years old later this year. The title is Alpha Dog’s first game within the Bethesda and ZeniMax family — and therefore also within Microsoft,…
June marked yet another month of slow downward trends in many areas of web3 gaming, with a degree of resilience persisting within the sector. As a whole, Unique Active Wallets (UAWs) largely remained stable in June compared to May. More specifically, casual games continued to drive more significant increases, while more transaction-driven (and bot-heavy) games…
This Naavik Exclusive features a comprehensive breakdown of the web3 gaming market for the month of May, including a detailed analysis of notable web3 game releases, unique active wallet stats, transaction trends, and funding announcements.
Anime’s influence on games is undeniable. From Genshin Impact to Ark Tower to DigiDaigaku, some of the biggest and most visible names are designed with anime aesthetics in mind. Why is this? In this deep dive, we explore and analyze anime’s intersection with games through the lens of “media mix.”
In this Game Radar series, we take a look at interesting and hyped upcoming blockchain games — Champions Ascension, Delysium, and Galaxy Fight Club — and gauge their potential successes based on team, tokenomics, game design, fun, and sustainability.
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