Posts tagged Game Developers
Online Gaming Study: Gamescrunch and Hi-media Payments provide a worldwide overview of the online gaming market
May 31st
The “Online Gaming Segmentation & Companies Mapping” study, produced by GamesCrunch and Hi-Media payments gathers all of the information relative to online gaming within one exhaustive database: market segmentation, main actors, business models, market trends etc.
Hi-media Payments and GamesCrunch strove to segment this market that is forecasted to represent revenues of $8.2 billion in 2010 (+32% relative to 2009). The study presents and analyses the activities of the main actors in the online gaming industry, based on several criteria: number of employees, year of creation, main games and associated business models…
This quantitative analysis is enhanced with the views of the online gaming actors. Using the statements that they collected, Hi-media Payments and GamesCrunch have identified and plotted the market’s major trends, the various existing economic models and the key success factors.
The study describes an online gaming industry that is constantly changing. The market is now more diversified than ever: over and above the technology-driven developments, the industry is constantly adapting to the evolving behaviour of web surfers. As such, online games have integrated the viral and social community dimensions that have developed through social networks.
While becoming more diversified, accessible and social, the online gaming industry has also become more competitive, resulting in an evolution of business models towards the Freemium model that is now becoming more generalized. This has resulted in an increase in the number of free online games offering payment-based options that can be acquired via micro-payment platforms.
Marketed by Hi-media Payments and GamesCrunch, the study will be updated on a regular basis. For more information: http://www.gamescrunch.com.
Hi-media Payments will be at the Social Gaming Summit in SF (May 6-7)
Apr 30th
Hi-media Payments US team will attend this year’s Social Gaming Summit, a one and a half day event focused on the intersection of games and the social web.
The event will focus on helping social games developers build, monetize, and grow their social games.
On May 6th, the Social Gaming University offers a half-day seminar that will provide insights into how social games work and what it takes to successfully build, promote and monetize a social game.
On May 7th, panels will bring together the leaders in free-to-play games, social networking, and payments infrastructure for a full day of panels and talks. Executives from Zynga, Playdom, Crowdstar, EA / Playfish, RockYou, Meteor Games, Tall Tree Games, myYearbook, PopCap, Slide, Playfirst, Challenge Games, ngmoco, and Kongregate already confirmed their presence.
The Summit will be held at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco (55 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103).
For more details on the Social Gaming agenda please visit: http://www.mediabistro.com/socialgamingsummit/program/
If you are a game developer or publisher looking at effective ways to promote and monetize your games globally, we would be happy to meet you. With our turnkey micropayments solution Allopass, we process over 8 million transactions a month and help game developers and publishers monetize their audience in more than 60 countries with subscriptions, virtual goods, virtual economies, VIP services and more.
We take the complexity out of international payments by providing you a fast-to-integrate, comprehensive and relevant set of payment options in a clean, integrated user interface.
And we remit funds faster than any other provider in the space (within 7-10 days of the transaction)!
Drop us an email to learn more: Chris Simamora (csimamora@allopass.us)
Hi-media Payments sponsors the Web Game Conference (Paris, April 29)
Apr 28th
Hi-media Payments, and Allopass, the group’s micropayments service, are sponsors of the first Web Game Conference, on 29 April at the Léonard de Vinci University Cluster in Paris, France.
At the initiative of Owlient, one of the leading European browser game companies with a 10M+ player worldwide community on its games Howrse and Babydow and in partnership with Hi-Media Payments, the De Vinci University International Multimedia Institute and the Syndicat National du Jeu Vidéo (French national video game federation), the Web Game Conference is aimed at leaders and innovators of the Web Game Industry.
This annual conference brings together European industry leaders to discuss, collaborate, and share advancements about design, business, community and legal areas of social and browser based game development.
Join us and over 30 international industry speakers and 220 trade visitors to enhance your knowledge of the social and browser games European market and attend web game development lectures, roundtables and meetings centered around two main themes:
- designing and developing a web game
- monetizing and marketing a web game
Take a look at the conference agenda here: http://www.webgameconf.eu/agenda
To follow the event on Twitter: webgameconf
We look forward to meeting you there!
Learn more about Hi-media Payments and Allopass at GDC next week!
Mar 5th
Allopass US team will attend the Game Developer Conference next week in San Francisco (Moscone Center – March 9-13).
GDC is the world’s largest professionals-only game industry event, attracting over 17,000 attendees. Presented every spring in San Francisco, it is the essential forum for learning, inspiration, and networking for the creators of computer, console, handheld, mobile, and online games.
If you are a game publisher or developer looking for a global payments provider that covers 60 countries, offers multiple payments methods (typically a selection of the 4-6 most relevant methods for each country), faster remittance, as well as global advertising and traffic acquisition opportunities, Allopass // Hi-media might have exactly what you need, all under one roof.
To learn more about Allopass or schedule a meeting at GDC, feel free to drop an email to Chris Simamora, our US Business Development Manager at csimamora(at)allopass(dot)us
We look forward to meeting you there!
