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UK-based developer Oxalis Games has raised $4.5 million in support of its upcoming Web3 social simulator/farming RPG, Moonfrost.
Notably, this is the very first Web3 project to be financially support by Supercell, as part of $4.5 million seed round led by Blocore, including Supercell, Animoca Brands, Griffin Gaming Partners, and Sir Ian Livingstone and Jagex CEO Phil Mansell as angels.
Apple Arcade execs Mark Bozon and Kathy Astromoff leave to pursue very divergent paths – Bozon has been appointed as a senior creative leader for Disney’s cross-divisional Next Generation Storytelling, whereas Astromoff is leaving to commit as a full-time climate activist.
Turkish mobile games studio Cypher Games has secured $3.2 million in a pre-seed financing round led by the game venture capital firm Play Ventures, with the participation of 500 Global, Joakim Achrén, founder of Next Games and Elite Game Developers, and Akin Babayigitf, founder of Tripledot Studios.
Mobile games developers have felt a greater sting from Apple’s privacy changes than app developers, according to a new report by Tenjin and Growth FullStack.
Following the introduction of ATT, advertiser spending on Google Play has increased at the expense of the App Store with 59 per cent shifting a proportion of their budget across, however the report notes that iOS has started a recovery of the lost ground.
The first of Google’s Mobile Insights Report 2022, a four-part series, aims to support games developers with a range of reports to help identify player behaviour and how it can inform game design.
The report breaks down parameters including impulses to download new mobile games, efficacy of in-game advertising, exciting future trends, and desire for NFT-based games.
