The Rise of The Influencer — And Why Epics New Store Approach Is Huge This article on Medium offers a nice overview and explanation of how influencers came to be and the reason behind their popularity. The author goes on to share how Epic will use influencers to curate and create the game discovery system on their new Epic Store, … Continue reading Industry News Weekly – Issue #131 →

Overview of the current mobile RPG market GameRefinery writes on the overview of the mobile RPG market, and compares how it performs in the eastern and western markets. Read more here... Social Design Practices for Human-Scale Online Games Be warned - this read is lengthy, and bit more on the scientific side of game design. This … Continue reading Industry News Weekly – Issue #130 →

Supercell series on Gamesindustry.biz Supercell has apparently welcomed almost 100 content creators to its headquarters in Helsinki day before launching Brawl Stars and these days is nearly impossible not to stumble upon a couple of articles per day about Supercell. Gameindustry.biz is no exception as they bring in 3-part article series about Supercell: What happens when you turn … Continue reading Industry News Weekly – Issue #129 →

Football Manager trying to data-fy the real world' Researcher at Sports Interactive, Stephen Davidson, explains some of the magic going on behind the scenes of Football Manager. He shares how his typical day at work looks like, how they try to data-fy the real world and bring real-world happenings to the game as soon as possible.  You … Continue reading Industry News Weekly – Issue #128 →