Mobile Gaming Digest – February 2023
🪄WGAMES Updates
Another month at WGAMES has passed, but not without launching exciting updates and brand-new content for Neverland Casino.
Some of the updates introduced in February included:
The exciting game, Reels n’ Wheels, and its accompanying challenge
The addition of more games in each Clan Stage allows players more options to earn Clan Points playing their favorite slots
A heart-racing game to celebrate the season of love, Love Birds, and its challenge
The new promo, Bonus Blitz, allows players to complete two extra Daily Blitz Missions
The new Clan special, Clan Rush, grants more Missions to complete before a Clan Season ends
Freebie Friday, where players can have their first Free Spin Round matched on any game with a Free Spins feature
📌 Featured Article
Notable Changes Within the Casino Game Industry
The casino game industry has seen a lot of changes in the last five years. There have been notable advancements in technology, which have impacted the games available to players in their mobile application stores. Additionally, the industry has seen a lot of regulatory changes, especially in the United States.
🚀 Industry News
Mobile Games Industry Trends for 2023: Publishing Predictions: Part One
Big game companies are now paying attention to the mobile market like never before. With lower development costs than console and PC, plus strong potential return on investment, it's become so top-of-mind that traditional publishers now consider mobile the primary platform.
Diversity in Gaming – Building an Equitable Future for All Gamers
Today, according to Newzoo, women represent a vastly significant 46 percent of the global gaming market and this figure is only set to grow. Within this, female gamers represent 48 percent of the global mobile gaming market – which mirrors the population at large, with 21 percent of adult mobile gamers being women aged 36 yrs+.
How Helsinki Became the Mobile Gaming Capital of the World
Think of the cities of the world which are renowned as hotbeds of innovative technology and Helsinki might not be near the top of the list. However, the often snow-covered streets of this relatively quiet northern European capital are home to some of the most ambitious and successful game makers in the world.
🌎 Around the Web
Tech-Driven Marketing Strategies Pick Up as AR/VR and AI Become More Accessible
Even with economic uncertainty bringing ad budgets under more scrutiny than usual, marketers are increasingly experimenting with tech, like augmented and virtual reality, and most recently, artificial intelligence. It’s a shift to stand out in an increasingly crowded digital marketplace and reach younger generations.
How ChatGPT Can Control Robots
Researchers at Microsoft, which has invested billions into OpenAI and recently integrated ChatGPT into its Bing search engine, extended the capabilities of ChatGPT to control a robotic arm and aerial drone. Earlier this week, Microsoft released a technical paper that describes a series of design principles that can be used to guide language models toward solving robotics tasks.
Google’s Improved Quantum Processor Good Enough for Error Correction
Today, Google announced a demonstration of quantum error correction on its next generation of quantum processors, Sycamore. The iteration on Sycamore isn't dramatic—it's the same number of qubits, just with better performance. And getting quantum error correction isn't really the news—they'd managed to get it to work a couple of years ago.