Browser-based gaming firm Arkadium introduced right this moment that it’s celebrating its twenty third anniversary. To commemorate the event, it’s launching eight new video games on its platform, bringing the overall variety of new video games for 2024 to 17 video games. Arkadium stories that it’s seen file excessive engagement numbers this yr, passing even the earlier numbers set throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
The eight video games are:
- Crosswordling (developer: Joyglitch)
- Cross Sew Masters (developer: TAPCLAP)
- Cooking Stay (developer: Matryoshka)
- Hexa Jigsaw Puzzle (developer: Playtouch)
- MR RACER – Automotive Racing (developer: ChennaiGames Studio Non-public Ltd)
- Mr. Runner X (developer: Zing Video games)
- Swipe Metropolis (developer: Ocean Studios)
- Phrase Conflict (developer: Ocean Studios)
Arkadium additionally this yr opened publishing on its platform to third-party builders, providing a 75% income share (with the devs maintaining the bulk) whereas providing help companies equivalent to advertising, analysis and monetization. In accordance with the corporate, it has seen nice returns on its builders program and likewise launched the $1 million Arkadium Publishing Fund 1 to supply additional financial help for builders.
Celebrating a milestone anniversary
GamesBeat spoke with Kenny Rosenblatt, CEO and co-founder of Arkadium, about hitting the corporate’s milestone. What requested what had modified within the years of the corporate’s operation, Rosenblatt informed us, “In the early years we were doing a lot of work-for-hire development work for companies like Warner Bros, Microsoft, EA, and Mattel. We’re proud that we built some very successful games for others, but we soon realized that we wanted to make games for ourselves as that’s where we saw real growth opportunities. We’ve worked hard, stayed true to our values and managed to go directly to the consumer and built the Arkadium brand into a leader in browser-based games.”
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Rosenblatt additionally added that he and his spouse, Jessica Rovello, based the corporate collectively and led it collectively for many of Arkadium’s existence. Rovello left the CEO position in 2023 to pursue alternatives exterior the corporate following a turbulent interval in its historical past — which included the COVID-19 pandemic, sanctions towards their studio in Crimea and the relocation of its Russia-based staff following that nation’s invasion of Ukraine. Rosenblatt, who was beforehand Arkadium’s president, took over as CEO at the moment.
When requested what he’s most pleased with about his firm, Rosenblatt stated, “In general, less than 1% of companies survive more than 20 years and less than 1% of companies generate more than $20m in revenue. We’ve done both and that’s something we’re proud of. We’ve grown through 2 recessions and major swings in both the macro-economy and the shift in game platforms like PC to mobile. Most recently, I’m proud of our ability to deliver games to our audience at a consistent clip. We reach more than 1,000,000 [daily active users] every day and our players are craving fresh new content.”
Rosenblatt additionally added that browser-based video games have a number of benefits over different platforms that makes them interesting to builders and avid gamers: “From a participant’s perspective, it’s since you don’t want any particular {hardware} to load a webpage and the browser is so ubiquitous and accessible. Each sensible gadget has a browser, out of your laptop computer to your cell phone to your tv…
“From a game developer’s perspective, the browser is a great platform because you don’t pay a 30% tax
on your microtransactions to a first party such as Apple or Google. You can rapidly iterate and roll out
releases without a black box approval process. You can target users with organic and paid UA that don’t
exist in the mobile app ecosystem. Lastly, no one owns the browser as a platform and most of the world
uses it so there’s a very large opportunity.”
