Rewardify’s mobile games offer cash sweepstakes prizes
Rewardify is bringing the age-old enticements of cash sweepstakes to mobile games. The company is offering prizes of $5-to-$10 for players who are the...
Niantic acquires Mayhem to boost social gaming communities
Pokémon Go creator Niantic has acquired social gaming community platform Mayhem. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the acquisition is Niantic’s seventh....
Nukebox Studios aims for another hit with home decor game Room Flip
India’s Nukebox Studios is aiming for another global hit with the home design game Room Flip. The creator of Food Truck Chef and Sponge...
Ducky generates $1 million a month and 145 million plays with hypercasual games
Hypercasual games are simple games that can reach the broadest audiences on mobile devices, and they can be made almost anywhere. The latest company...
The DeanBeat: Predictions for gaming in 2021
This past year was one of the most unpredictable in all of human history. The pandemic threw off our ability to predict what will...
In its death throes, Adobe’s Flash kills off Zynga’s original FarmVille
Adobe is terminating its Flash software today, and with it will go Zynga’s original FarmVille game from 2009. That brings to an end an...
Fred Chesnais interview: On blockchain bets, Atari hotels, and shipping the VCS console
Under CEO Fred Chesnais, Atari is a company with just 28 employees. That’s pretty small for the oldest brand in video games. But during...
Yoan Fanise tells why Road 96 is DigixArt’s next big game
Yoan Fanise‘s indie DigixArt studio has made memorable games like Valiant Hearts, 11-11 Memories Retold, and Lost in Harmony. And Fanise recently revealed at...
IMVU: Making the coin of the realm for the metaverse
IMVU has been a relatively quiet and unnoticed company in the online gaming and social media worlds. But the company did something recently that...
Twin Mirror review — A journalist uncovers a small town’s crisis
In Twin Mirror, the latest narrative game from Dontnod Entertainment, you play as a journalist whose mission is to uncover the truth. When it...