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Some Seriously Great News. No, Seriously …

Exactly six years ago today I received an email from my friend Ynon Kreiz introducing me to Andrew Stalbow and Petri Järvilehto. Ynon had been the CEO of Maker Studios and I trust his opinion a great deal so of course I took the meeting.Andrew and Petri had left game developer Rovio (of Angry Birds fame) and were creating a new games company called Seriously that would combine compelling intellectual property (characters), great narratives, and fun game play in a mobile-first application. Their initial release would be a product called

Malmö, Sweden — Global Gaming – a proven brand-builder set for expansion

Latest research from SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken) Through its PayNPlay solution and strong brand proposition, the company has managed to break into the highly competitive Nordic online casino market through its flagship brand, Ninja Casino. Management now aspires to strengthen its position and the roadmap for expansion comprises product expansion, geographical expansion, and organic growth through new brands or acquisitions. With a growing cash position and debt-free balance sheet, the company may mix organic growth with acquisitions and build a range of brands. Link to research Source: https://globalgaming.com/2018/12/11/global-gaming-a-proven-brand-builder-set-for-expansion/

Insert coin: Level up your player support experience

If you’re wondering if I’m a gamer, I’m not.I don’t play video games every day, I don’t crowd my mobile phone with gaming apps, belong to any gaming community, I’m not even that good at them! However, from time to time, I do play a game or two. I’ll get excited and even start screaming to the lifeless screen in front of me — and that’s when my inner gamer, dormant most of the time, comes out to play.For this reason, going to Gamescom 2018 was an entirely new experience

P.S.: I love you. When gamers break up with you.

Quick disclaimer: I am not a gamer.But there was this one time, a few years ago, when I came home to find a borrowed PlayStation with a Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas case right next to it in the living room. It was my girlfriend who had left it there.She had been playing it all afternoon and as soon as I got home she told me all about her plan. The idea was for us to spend a different kind of weekend together, just the two of us, playing GTA.Little

How Artificial Intelligence is changing the gaming industry

Artificial intelligence (AI) in gaming isn’t a recent innovation. As early as 1949, mathematician and cryptographer Claude Shannon pondered a one-player chess game, in which humans would compete against a computer.Indeed, gaming has been a key engine of AI, and a proving ground for the simulations, constructed environments and tests of realism that are the foundation of virtual experiences.AI for the gaming experienceIn 1989’s Sim City, for example, players controlled complex simulations, and rudimentary gaming AI was deployed to simulate something close to realism – i.e. deeply human characteristics like unpredictability.