Mobile Gaming Today: 28

?? 23-30 Sep Data Digest

Hey Fam ??

PGC Helsinki day today ?? Can’t wait for the Toilet-tier pitches!

Industry Highlights

?? Ahronson: Mobile Games Are Dead

?? InvestGame: Gaming Company IPOs Since 2000

?? Slashcev: 40 Pieces of Advice for Beginning Game Devs

?? WeChat Mini Games: Goldmine of Chinese Mobile Gaming

?? Zubov: Startups are raising money for Telegram-based games

?? Kopelovich: Unpacking the “Lava Quest” Live-Ops Event

???? Kim: Subculture Games in Korea: Successes & Failures

?? üzmez: Where do you think most start-ups get stuck?

???? Anosov: Female Gamers from China’s Tier-3 Cities

Mobile Marketing

??? Optimizing FTUE: First 30 Minutes of 30 Top Casual Games

?? Kopelovich: Voodoo x Hasbro Collab is Back in Mob Control

?? Remiar: Smart Advertising of Last War by Rivergame

?? Lancaric: Slingshot Hook - New Trend Evolution

?? Kang: Idle Tycoon #1 in Revenue with Office Cat

?? Monetizing Live-Ops Events: Key Examples

?? Chhabra: Culturalization Strategy of Last War Game

?? Slashcev: Top Revenue-Driving Events in Royal Match

?? üzmez: Actual mobile game launch process that works.

?? Weiss: Wondering How Traffic Games are in Top Charts?

?? APPS: Our Fashion Battle is now live on YouTube Playables

?? Storr: 30-Sec Agency Creative vs. 60-Sec Raw In-game Footage

??? Pereira: ‘Satisroom: Perfectly Organize’ by FALCON Game Studio

?? Zubov: Hamster Kombat is bigger than Monopoly GO & Royal Match

?? Jobs of The Week ??

AI World

??? Slashcev: Top AI Tools for Game Dev

??? The 5 Tech Trends Driving Video Games

?? OpenAI to Remove Non-profit Control

?? OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is Leaving

?? Humanlike ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode

???? Why Is OpenAI Trying to Raise So Much Money?

More? ? VentureBeat

Gaming Investments

???? Vivid Games: Lithuanian Fund Gemini Grupe will take over 40%

?? Empire Games: "New External Team" after Huuuge Games Investment

?? Nitro Games: €5M Expansion to the Dev Agreement with Digital Extremes

?? Behaviour Interactive acquires Darkest Dungeon Dev Red Hook Studios

?? Darkbright raises $6M to build life-sim RPG Smolbound

More? ? InvestGame