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Learn more about my brilliant colleagues and friends in this series, "Netlighter up close" 🌟 #potentialunleashed #netlight

🎮 Port Alert! 🕹️ From one console (office) to the next, Backroom Boys have successfully 'ported' to the City of Kings - Cracow!! Merging the magic of gaming with royal vibes. Two offices, one epic journey! 🏢👑 #PortedToCracow #BackroomBoysExpansion #LevelUpWithUs #CracowKingdomOfGames #CastleAndCode

What is the most under-represented genre right now in competitive PC gaming? For a while I thought it may be RTS, but it's clear now that Arena FPS is in the most challenging place. RTS is poised to have a huge resurgence with Frost Giant Studios, Inc. Stormgate as well as ZeroSpace on the horizon. The genre has done well to weather difficult times since the fall of SC2 from the limelight and it's been great seeing competition continue and other games like Age Of Empires do well again. Arena FPS on the other hand hasn't been so hot. The flame has been kept alive by Quake but only just. With the collapse of QPL recently, players are returning to QuakeLive, but with no game on the horizon to spark renewed interest or to pull in newer audiences, it's hard to say what's next. It feels like there's an opportunity for a developer to reinvigorate the space, but after so many failed attempts, perhaps it's simply too risky and we'll still be playing QuakeLive in another 10 years.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 - 𝐀 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 The talk by Martin Macmillan of Pollen VC. As the markets continue to tighten, this talk explores a more tangible framework for how gaming studios can arrive at a sensible valuation for their studio. They propose a bottom-up rather than a top-down valuation framework which can be built up to provide a tangible and defensible valuation methodology for valuation in an M&A scenario. #gamedev #indiedev #GIC22 https://lnkd.in/dpHXtrEx

A talk I gave at Game Industry Conference about 🤑 How To Value a Mobile Game Studio. Watch the full talk 👇🏻

😎 Check out Martin's talk from Game Industry Conference: How To Value a Mobile Game Studio. As the markets continue to tighten and the M&A landscape cools in #mobilegaming, this talk explores a more tangible framework for how gaming studios can arrive at a sensible valuation for their studio. They propose a bottom up, rather than top-down valuation framework which can be built up to arrive up to provide a tangible and defensible valuation methodology for valuation in an m&a scenario. This talk is aimed at studio founders looking to exit but also helpful for acquiring studios. #mobilestudio #mergersandacquisitions #gamesindustry

Gamescom 2023 and its fascinating recap Gamescom never lets us down and this year’s edition was no exception. Gamescom 2023, as it does every year, served as the connection hub for the entire gaming industry’s ecosystem, drawing 320,000 participants, including over 31,000 trade visitors and 1,227 exhibitors. Can you believe it? 😳 In case you missed the event or want to relive the buzz from a month ago, here are the interesting takeaways. Explore more by clicking below! #Denuvo #Irdeto #VideoGames #Gamescom2023 #ProtectYourGames

Gamescom 2023 and its fascinating recap Gamescom never lets us down and this year’s edition was no exception. Gamescom 2023, as it does every year, served as the connection hub for the entire gaming industry’s ecosystem, drawing 320,000 participants, including over 31,000 trade visitors and 1,227 exhibitors. Can you believe it? 😳 In case you missed the event or want to relive the buzz from a month ago, here are the interesting takeaways. Explore more by clicking below! #Denuvo #Irdeto #VideoGames #Gamescom2023 #ProtectYourGames

Gamescom 2023 and its fascinating recap Gamescom never lets us down and this year’s edition was no exception. Gamescom 2023, as it does every year, served as the connection hub for the entire gaming industry’s ecosystem, drawing 320,000 participants, including over 31,000 trade visitors and 1,227 exhibitors. Can you believe it? 😳 In case you missed the event or want to relive the buzz from a month ago, here are the interesting takeaways. Explore more by clicking below! #Denuvo #Irdeto #VideoGames #Gamescom2023 #ProtectYourGames

Gamescom 2023 and its fascinating recap Gamescom never lets us down and this year’s edition was no exception. Gamescom 2023, as it does every year, served as the connection hub for the entire gaming industry’s ecosystem, drawing 320,000 participants, including over 31,000 trade visitors and 1,227 exhibitors. Can you believe it? 😳 In case you missed the event or want to relive the buzz from a month ago, here are the interesting takeaways. Explore more by clicking below! #Denuvo #Irdeto #VideoGames #Gamescom2023 #ProtectYourGames