Most studios approach the game business model as an open decision. Free-to-play or premium, ads or purchases, subscription or battle pass, all of it presented as a menu to be selected from once the game is roughly designed. In practice the decision was made earlier, by the genre, and studios that fight that constraint spend a year discovering it the expensive way. What the … [Read more...] about Your Game Business Model Is Decided by Genre Before You Choose It
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Mobile Gaming Trends in 2026: Web Shops, Hybrid Stacks and Flat Install Growth
Mobile will take in roughly $121 billion this year, more than PC and console combined, off a base of about 3.1 billion people who play something on a phone at least occasionally. The segment grows about 6.8%. The player count grows about 4.2%. Almost all of the difference is monetization work, and that is where the year's real changes are happening. The web shop is the biggest … [Read more...] about Mobile Gaming Trends in 2026: Web Shops, Hybrid Stacks and Flat Install Growth