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Hyper-Casual Games: Trends and How to Reach Scale

This article originally appeared on Hackernoon and is reproduced with permission. Hyper-casual games have captured the mobile games industry’s interest ever since the incredible meteoric rise (and fall) of Flappy Bird in 2014. In 2018, the total mobile games market stood at $50 billion, of which $10 billion came from in-game advertising and the rest from in-app purchases. In that same year, AppAnnie reported that hyper-casual games made up 53.4% of the top 30 game installs in the US and over 27% in Japan and Korea, respectively. Fast forward to

Ludwig has announced when he’ll end his subathon Twitch stream

Olivia Richman • Apr 11, 21:54Ludwig Ahgren's record-breaking Twitch stream is coming to an end soon.  Ludwig told his followers on Saturday that he would be ending his Subathon on Tuesday, April 13th at 9 PM PST. At that point, Ludwig will reach his 31-day streaming limit. The streamer has been live streaming since March, when he announced that he would add 100 seconds to a countdown clock for each Tier 3 subscription. He ended up becoming the most subscribed Twitch streamer on the platform pretty early on as viewers

Rust Console Release Date Announced

Top GamesPlayers finally have an official release date announced for Rust on consoles. | Double Eleven, FacepunchPlayers finally have an official release date announced for Rust on consoles.Double Eleven revealed the date early on Friday, March 26, during the latest trailer for the game. In fact, the date is in the title, itself: May 21. Finally, fans of this aggressive multiplayer survival game can make the switch to a platform that feels best for them. Alongside the reveal was a blog post on the game's news blog site detailing exactly

kNgV-: “Playing with this team has been very pleasing”

It’s 10 am in Belgrade, and MIBR have just arrived at Relog Media — their training facility during this sojourn in the Serbian capital. Vito "⁠kNgV-⁠" Giuseppe hops on a quick video call before his team begin another long day of practice. MIBR have been working against the clock since this roster was hurriedly assembled in late October, trying to cram as much practice time as possible. The goal is to give fans a reason to feel good again after the shocking and absolute disintegration of the previous team, both

Sharks confirm Lucaozy signing

The 19-year-old rounds out the Portuguese organisation's roster after over a year with DETONA. Sharks have announced that they have secured the services of Lucas "⁠Lucaozy⁠" Neves after working out a transfer with DETONA. The 19-year-old becomes the second signing made by the Portuguese organisation in just two weeks following the arrival of Fillipe "⁠pancc⁠" Martins from W7M. Lucaozy spent 15 months with DETONA following his transfer from Reapers in August 2019, helping the team to win the OMEN Atlantic Challenge, a tournament that was held in Lisbon and also

device: “Anyone in es3tag’s situation would say yes; it was a unique opportunity for him”

In an interview conducted ahead of Astralis' opening match of BLAST Premier Fall Series Group C against MIBR, device talked about reuniting the five-man lineup that won three consecutive Majors as Xyp9x looks to step back into the team after taking some time off due to medical reasons. device aims to finish the year on a high note Quizzed on es3tag's departure to Cloud9, device said that he thinks his compatriot made the "best move for his career", noting that it made sense financially but also from the perspective that

MonteCristo: “I can promise that we will have on Flashpoint the best features that have been made during this pandemic”

Flashpoint will return in early November after more than a six-month break, this time with a Europe-based online tournament that will be covered by an on-air team working out of a studio in London. The new-look Cloud9 roster headlines the lineup of partner teams for the league, which will also feature two big-name qualified sides coming from the CIS — Virtus.pro and forZe — and three top-20 invitees — OG, BIG and fnatic. MonteCristo says that Flashpoint 2 will raise the bar, both in terms of the level of competition

Kjaerbye on time as a free agent: “It was a big relief to see that there are teams that believe I still haven’t peaked yet”

Kjaerbye closed a big chapter in his career in July when he and North parted ways after more than two years together, and opened another when he inked a deal with FaZe after three months on the sidelines, two of which due to medical reasons. The 22-year-old played his first official match since returning to action in FaZe's 2-0 defeat to Heroic in ESL One Cologne, and the team will now have to face MIBR in a do-or-die series later on Friday in the lower bracket. Kjaerbye says he hopes

BoxVR Getting A Major Oculus Quest Upgrade To FitXR, New Visuals & Fixes

BoxVR is getting a major overhaul on Oculus Quest this week, even branding the title with a new name, FitXR. Since its release on other headsets a few years back, BoxVR has provided a fun means of working out in VR, getting players to punch notes to the beat. That core gameplay remains in this update, but FitXR (which is the same name as its London-based developer) gives pretty much every other element of the game an overhaul. Check it out below. [embedded content] For starters, you’ll notice a huge