Blizzard uses a Facebook Messenger chatbot to tease Hearthstone’s future
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is doing an awful lot of teasing lately, and now the digital card game leader is using a Facebook Messenger chatbot...
NetEase’s push from China continues with mobile strategy game Immortal Conquest
Chinese gaming company NetEase announced that the mobile strategy game Immortal Conquest will be its next release for Western markets. The mythology-based title will come...
Livestreaming app Mobcrush raises $20 million
The mobile-based livestreaming app Mobcrush has raised $20 million in Series B funding. The Los Angeles-based production company Evolution Media led the round. This brings...
Live.me has processed $1 million in virtual gift payments for streamers in 7 months
Cheetah Mobile’s Live.me mobile streaming app launched just seven months ago. And the Chinese company is announcing today that Live.me has now processed more...
3 ways to overcome the blind spot in mobile fraud protection
Presented by AppsFlyer. Fraud is an ongoing issue in the mobile app marketing space, much to the industry’s chagrin. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) estimates...
World of Final Fantasy is a successful experiment to win over fans new and old
I sat on my couch, and despite the ludicrous dialogue coming out of the TV speakers, I couldn’t cringe: The oftentimes annoying script for...
The Anki Cozmo toy robot has personality, intelligence … and might rule the world
It’s a remarkably strange experience when you are defeated by a robot. You feel a little foolish or wonder if the world is going...
How The Oatmeal’s Bears vs Babies card game scored $1.4 million in a week on Kickstarter
First, they gave us Exploding Kittens, the physical and digital card game that raised $8.7 million on Kickstarter and sold more than 2 million physical...
Privacy author Violet Blue helped Ubisoft capture San Francisco’s hacktivism in Watch Dogs 2
Violet Blue grew up in San Francisco, and she writes about hacker culture and cybercrime in the region’s hacking community. That made Blue, an...
The Walking Dead mobile game No Man’s Land is adding content for the show’s new season
Everyone’s favorite zombie show is back on the air, but someone doesn’t want you to forget about its mobile game tie-in. Last night, AMC’s...