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Game Radar: Blocklords, Star Atlas, AI Arena
In this Game Radar series, we take a look at interesting and hyped upcoming blockchain games — Blocklords, Star Atlas, and AI Arena — and gauge their potential successes based on team, tokenomics, game design, fun, and sustainability.
What’s Next After Battle Royale? — Mobile Shooters Genre Report
In Naavik Pro’s inaugural genre report series, we tackle the mobile shooters market. This report covers the big picture genre data, digs into the key subgenres, discusses how the market has changed over the past year, and makes predictions on where it goes next.
Candy Crushing It – King’s 10-Year Reign
Candy Crush Saga has been dominating the charts for an almost unbroken 10 years, a remarkable feat in the hotly contested casual puzzle space. This unyielding supremacy is thanks to many factors, which this essay will explore.
Puzzles & Survival: A Surviving and Thriving 4X in the post-IDFA World
In this deconstruction, we take a look at 37GAMES’s innovative hybrid take in the 4X genre called Puzzles & Survival, and explain how this game has entered the top-grossing charts even in the face of the current post-IDFA UA climate.
Game Radar: Guild of Guardians, Phantom Galaxies, Illuvium
In this Game Radar series, we take a look at interesting and hyped upcoming blockchain games — Guild of Guardians, Phantom Galaxies, and Illuvium — and gauge their potential successes based on team, tokenomics, game design, fun, and sustainability.
Changing the Game for Community Growth: Porting Mobile F2P to PC
Porting a mobile F2P game is highly beneficial in helping meet players’ ever-changing needs and technological trends, but it doesn’t come without risk. This research essay dives into why consider porting itself, the pros and cons of different approaches and key considerations to keep in mind before pulling the trigger.
The Japanese Blockchain Gaming Landscape
In recent months, a number of Japanese game companies have been making moves toward blockchain technology. We recap it all, analyse the current landscape and provide insights into the future of Japanese blockchain gaming in this research essay.
Free-To-Own: The Solution to a Sustainable Model?
Ever since gamified NFTs came to the market, there’s been this ongoing quest to figure out which model works best in this new gaming paradigm of digital ownership that allows buying, selling, and trading of game assets freely. Free-to-Own is the new kid on the block, and we deep dive into the same in this research essay.
Project Makeover: Its Fall From Grace
The match-3 segment has historically been one of little change. Most top grossing games are ancient products with the median player staying loyal for years. Candy Crush Saga is the most shining example, as it is still the most lucrative and by far the oldest. Today we’ll be looking at its most innovative and disruptive competitor to date: Magic Tavern’s Project Makeover.
Hypercasual Meets Web3: Gameta, Joyride, and Benji Bananas
In this multi-pronged deconstruction, we dig into Gameta, Joyride, and Benji Bananas — three leading hypercasual games in the web3 space. Should hypercasual even play a role in web3? And do these games have what it takes to further lead the charge? Let’s find out.
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