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Eric Kress www.linkedin.com/in/erickress/
Phillip Black www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-black-economist/
Jen Donahoe www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferdonahoe
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In this week's TWIG we are joined by Damian Kim who is Director, Head of Gaming China for Facebook.
The topics we cover today include:
#1. PUBG becomes first mobile battle royale to surpass $1bn revenue
#2. Expectations are ‘sky high’ for Nintendo’s latest Mario mobile game, analyst says
#3. Mario Kart Tour’s $4.99 monthly subscription fee is out of touch with reality
#4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare expected to be US best-selling title of 2019
#5. How Garena’s Free Fire competes with Fortnite and PUBG Mobile
#6. Tencent will become Funcom’s largest shareholder
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Today we are joined by guest host Lloyd Melnick who is EVP Casino at VGW and writes the fantastic blog The Business of Social Games and Casino.
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Today we’re going to be talking about a little bit of a sensitive topic which is what you as an employee can and should do to protect yourself against companies that are facing layoffs or some form of restructuring.
Also, how should you deal with work situations that you may not be happy with and how and when should you best optimize leaving your company if you are unhappy.
We all know the video games industry can be tough and one that lacks transparency which can put employees in a tough spot.
Over the past 6 months or so, I’ve been hearing a lot of unfortunate rumors and news coming out about a number of game companies who seem to be running into trouble. I can foresee a lot of folks in our industry that will need to figure out what their next opportunities are.
Given that, we’ve got 2 pros in the executive search space: first Sam Wallace from Carmichael Fisher Search and Jeffrey Lujan from The Game Group to talk about these very important topics.
In this latest TWIG episode we discuss:
#1. THINKING ABOUT DAILY ACTIVE USERS (AND THE LIMITATIONS OF THIS METRIC), from AlexandreMacmillan.com
#2. A Learning Journey: Announcing EA’s Cloud Gaming Technical Trial, from Medium
#3. How Zynga looks for the right game companies to acquire, from VentureBeat
#4. Disney reportedly planning sale of gaming division FoxNext, from Gamesindustry.biz
#5. Are the glory days of social casino over? Probably!, from The Business of Social Games and Casino
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Welcome to guest host Kenny Liu from Riot Games and author of the really great industry newsletter Kliuless: https://tinyletter.com/kliuless
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Newcomer Habby shot up out of nowhere with Archero which made over $35M in net IAP revenue over its first 3 months.
Find out how Archero was able to achieve big success and how it could have been designed even stronger in this episode's podcast.
Also, check out the original Deconstructor of Fun blog post covering the game by Manyu and Eva.
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In the latest TWIG we discuss:
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Montreal up next!
Also, be sure to check out JK's GameMakers YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/c/GameMakersStudio
Welcome to the final episode of our Mobile Publisher Series. In each of the episode we sat down with the CEO of top mobile publisher and discussed how they approach publishing, what is their company’s strategy, how do they work with developers and how do they see the future of publishing on mobile.
In case you missed the previous episode:
Mobile Publishing #1: Deconstructing Scopely's path to $1B with Scopely’s Javier Ferreira (Co-CEO)
Mobile Publishing #2: Behind Tilting Point's $132M War Chest with President Samir El Agili
Mobile Publishing #3: Former Publishing CEO Spills the Beans with Klaas Kersting
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In this episode of This Week in Games we discuss: #1. Tencent doubling down on Season Pass, #2. Ninja quickly getting 1M subs on Mixer, #3. Roblox Surpassing Minecraft with 100 MAU, #4. Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, require loot box disclosure, and #5. Apex Legends Forums Furious as Devs Call Players "Ass-Hats" and "Freeloaders"
Today we're joined by guest host, Josh Burns from Digital Dev Connect!
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