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Design Video Games For Children

6 Tips When Designing Video Games for a Young Audience

5 Types Of Micro-transactions To Help Your In-game Store Thrive

Console and mobile games often rely on microtransactions to make income and keep up with user engagement

Merchant of record: global commerce support made easy

When you’re ready to scale up your video game business, it may be time to tap Xsolla to act as your Merchant of Record

5 fraud trends you need to know about

Learn about recent developments in gaming fraud that are guaranteed to impact your business

In-game purchases: the indie dev’s best revenue friend

Compare different game monetization strategies and discover the best one for both free-to-play and premium indie games

Build the in-game store everyone wants to shop at

How to make a successful in-game store that will be popular with your players and profitable for you

Game release & myth busters

Everything you need to know about maximizing pre-sales before your game launches on Steam

5 quick tips to optimize your payments

Check out these helpful ways you can drive more users in more places to make purchases

Xsolla launches a virtual collective of gaming professionals

Join the Xsolla Diamond Club, the virtual collective of video game developers and publishers with insider access to industry events and collaborative networking opportunities

Two ways to grow your mobile video game business

Expanding your mobile game to PC and the web opens up new opportunities

OWN3D maximizes influencer marketing with Xsolla partner network

With its influencer marketing tools, Xsolla Partner Network became a serious asset to a premium global streaming graphics business

Pitching your game: the essentials you need to know – part 2

Preparing a pitch may not be as exciting as game development, but the more work you put in up front, the more likely it is that you’ll reach your goals later. I suggest that your pitches contain the following...

What it takes to pitch a game – part 1

Ultimately, the purpose of this piece is to provide some practical and applicable insights into the mind of an investor/publisher. This is done to enable you to better prepare your pitch and give you the best possible shot at getting money to work on your game.

Get easy access to payments in Unity & UE4

Our new Payments SDKs take you from a flexible integration to accepting more payments from more players in minutes

e스포츠를 통해 게임의 수익 올리기

디지털 배포로 모바일 게임에 힘을 실어 주는 법

5 Contracts Every Game Developer Needs

What documents do you need when hiring a contractor, porting a game, or signing an exclusive deal?

How To Monetize With In-game Item Secondary Marketplaces

Why is adding virtual goods that players can buy, sell and trade a good thing for your game? Why should you team up with a partner to help you out?

Cheat Code In Video Game Funding

There’s no question about it: Making a video game is expensive

Breaking Into The New Market: Pre-orders

Everything you need to know about locking in sales before your game is released

An Open Letter To Web Game Developers

Flash is coming to an end, but don’t worry — Xsolla has you covered

See How Lotro Cranked Up Sales While Slashing Fraud Rate

Lord of the Rings levels up store conversions, customer support and fraud protection with a gateway solution

Why It’s Critical To Increase Pre-order Sales

Getting started early and building sufficient momentum are the keys to success

Reach These Three Big Markets — Enable Cash Payments

Here's how you do it