Way Too Hard Or Way Too Easy? The balance between anxiety and boredom in video games
Do you remember the last time you quit playing a game when you got stuck in one of its levels because you got too frustrated? Or on the other hand, do you remember a game that was so simple you eventually got bored and stopped playing it? Kind of disappointing, isn’t it? This type of […]
Case Study: How NFTs, metaverses and blockchain boost the evolution of the gaming industry
An ever-changing technological world In our current technological landscape, it’s not unusual for innovative advances or possibilities to suddenly appear and take the world by storm. The same thing can happen with older concepts, that can sometimes receive a massive spike in popularity from day to night. 2021 was a year full of challenges and […]
Soft Launch Your Game on PC and Mobile
So, you are looking to soft launch your game? At Antidote, we are always reinforcing the core idea of what is essential when it comes to playtesting: it should be done at every stage of development. From the very first prototype analysis to the last test a week before the game goes live, the type […]
UX Reports for Game Studios and Publishers
Why are the Playtest’s reviews important? While it is not hard to understand the importance of playtesting, it might be easy for someone not familiar with this process to overlook certain aspects of it. One of the biggest examples of this is the sheer amount of results that may be obtained from even a single […]
UX Case Study: Assisted Playtesting
Regardless of the stage of development, it’s always extremely important to playtest your games. The insights and information you obtain through this process are invaluable tools that help you to understand and measure player engagement and interest in your projects, while also discovering if the mechanics implemented are working as intended or if some […]
Why did Microsoft aquire Bethesda?
On 9th March, Microsoft announced the completion of acquisition of the game publisher Bethesda, for 7.5 billion dollars in total. Interestingly, the most noticeable competitor of Microsoft Xbox – Sony PlayStation just obtained the PS5 exclusivity of two video games from Bethesda – Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo. In this article, we will have a discussion […]
5 Video Games that marked Gaming History
Video Gaming history wasn’t born from one day to the next. In fact, the very first video game ever known came out in October 1958, created by the physicist William Higinbotham. It consisted of a very simple tennis game, very similar to the classic video game Pong that arrived in the 70s, and which we […]
Top 8 PC Video Games of 2021 You Can’t Miss
We all can agree that 2021 hasn’t been the best year in a lot of aspects, but luckily we can’t complain about the pc video games releases that it brought into our hands. In today’s post we will make a brief recap about the top 8 PC video games of 2021. We will start from […]
UX Case Study: Stress Test – Simultaneous Playtest
As the multiplayer landscape in video games evolves, so do the requirements and the elements added to it in order to provide new functionalities and mechanics. This creates an increase in multiplayer and simultaneous testing. Thus more and more companies want to make sure their servers are capable of handling large numbers of players and […]
6 Gaming Industry Events For This Summer 2021
Here are the most exciting Gaming Industry Events for this Summer 2021. From what we have seen so far, we can all agree that 2020 wasn’t the greatest year. Lots of Gaming Industry events and conferences were cancelled because of the pandemic, and therefore had to be done either online or postponed to 2021-2022.Unfortunately, not much […]