Mark Hamill rejoins cast for mobile game Best Fiends’ third animated short

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 19, 2018
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

Developer Seriously‘s Best Fiends mobile game isn’t known as well as its Helsinki neighbor Rovio’s Angry Birds. But Seriously continues to take a page from the Angry Birds playbook by creating animated cartoons based on its Best Fiends mobile game characters.

This is the sort of creative and financial risk taking that has to be done to help a mobile game stand out from its rivals in the $70 billion mobile game market.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.