The Girl and the Robot delivers a short but charming experience
The Girl and the Robot doesn’t try to wow you with features or complicated mechanics or frilly, detailed graphic design. Instead, this indie third-person...
Strengthening your app monetization super powers (VB Live)
Every app developer starts out wanting to build an awesome app. But monetizing that awesomeness is often thought about much later, with very mixed...
New Pokémon Go bot ‘automates the entire game’
Insta-PokéGo, a new bot that enables you to cheat at Pokémon Go, launched Wednesday. The bot comes from a group of current and former Dropbox engineers, according...
How SongPop’s built a 100-million-player community that’s led to massive success (VB Live)
Mobile gaming looks like a solitary pursuit, but it’s increasingly clear that lifetime value relies on users who make your game — and their fellow...
Pokémon Go rivals Rio Olympic Games in popularity
RIO DE JANEIRO (By Anthony Boadie for Reuters) — Forget beach volleyball, soccer or tennis, not to mention the steeplechase or discus. Pokémon Go is challenging...
Diving into the Samsung app store: slots, mirrors, and a talking cat
Join me on this slightly bizarre dive into the Samsung app store, as I find a talking cat that doesn't talk, a mirror world without much to reflect on, and a frontier with nothing worth exploring.
Monster Hunter Generations is a small step forward for hunterkind (updated)
This isn’t entirely the case for Monster Hunter Generations — the latest Nintendo 3DS entry in the series that released July 15 — which follows 2015’s adept Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, a game that took up months of my gaming time last year.
Outpost Games’ CEO explains why community isn’t just important; it’s everything (VB Live)
Building community can no longer be a secondary goal. Join gaming pros from Outpost, FreshPlanet, Google, and VB’s own Dean Takahashi to learn how...
Chrome will block ‘behind the scenes’ Flash content in September, make HTML5 default in December
Google has shared more details of its plan to replace Flash with HTML5 by default in Chrome. In September 2016, Chrome will block Flash content that loads...
Why the game marketing ecosystem is ripe for disruption
For many game developers, the traditional way of promoting their products online is broken beyond repair.
With no direct digital access to potential customers, they depend on an ungainly mix of ad exchanges, media buying platforms, data aggregators, agencies, and resellers. The results of such a tangled web are predictable: Unfair prices, low-quality leads and surging churn rates.