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How Honkai: Star Rail Reveals Cracks in the HoYoverse
Reading Time: 41 minutes 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…
Gaming Marketplace Case Studies
Reading Time: 40 minutes Esport Revenue Growth
How Strategy & Card Games are Surviving Post-IDFA
Reading Time: 45 minutes 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…
Gaming X AI Market Map: The Infinite Power Of Play
Reading Time: 12 minutes 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…
Mighty DOOMed: How Doom’s Mobile Spinoff Misstepped
Reading Time: 26 minutes 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 2023: Web3 Gaming Monthly Market Update
Reading Time: 13 minutes 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…
May 2023: Web3 Gaming Monthly Market Update
Reading Time: 15 minutes 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.
Match Masters: A Global Success No One Believed In
Reading Time: 21 minutes In this deconstruction, we’re diving into Candivore’s Match Masters and exploring how the Match-3 game uses its multiplayer PvP-only core to break from the puzzle genre tradition.
Five Lessons From the Starbucks Odyssey Experience
Reading Time: 18 minutes Is Starbucks the coffee chain the hidden vanguard of web3? In this research essay, we discuss the five major lessons learned from Starbucks’ Odyssey Experience and what gaming compaines can take away from this particular NFT and blockchain experiment.
Goddess of Victory: Nikke — Attempt at World Domination
Reading Time: 24 minutes In this deconstruction, we’re diving into Shift Up’s Goddess of Victory: Nikke and breaking down how the game smartly uses fan service, highly polished gameplay, and a seductive waifu collector theme to great effect.
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