App Annie: 5 predictions for mobile app and gaming success in 2020
App Annie collects a lot of data on mobile devices, apps, and games. And so the mobile insights and analytics company has five predictions...
There’s serious potential in serious games
The world is being transformed by play. Serious games, or games that have a purpose beyond entertainment (not games that require serious effort to...
Beyond banning: More ways to protect your game from exploits (VB Live)
Presented by Akamai Game developers not only have to think about security from the start, but make sure it doesn’t affect game performance, either....
Diablo: Immortal won’t stand in Diablo IV’s shadow
Diablo: Immortal didn’t have a big presence at this year’s BlizzCon. Instead, Blizzard Entertainment focused on announcing new titles, such as Diablo IV. Last...
TabTale changes its name to Crazy Labs with focus on hyper-casual mobile games
TabTale got 2.6 billion downloads thanks to its past focus on kids educational games. But in the past couple of years, the Israeli company...
Litesprite’s game for managing depression gets an endorsement from Bayer’s startup accelerator
Litesprite had the vision years ago to use a mobile video game to help patients manage problems such as stress, anxiety, or depression. And...
PlayStation leads October’s game industry ad spend, but NFL TV networks are the big winners
The game industry’s TV ad spend increased in October for the second month in a row, up to an estimated $60.3 million from September’s...
Flavourworks raises $3.8 million to make interactive games with live-action video
Flavourworks has raised $3.8 million in funding for its interactive movie games that fuse together live-action video with interactive gameplay. Flavourworks has created a...
The DeanBeat: Gaming is still at the mercy of larger forces
The week was thick with gaming news, so some folks may not have noticed that Playtika, the Tel Aviv-based social casino games company, is...
Candy Crush Friends Saga helps King have the top-grossing franchise in U.S. app stores
Activision Blizzard noted today when reporting its earnings for the third quarter that the Candy Crush series remains the top-grossing franchise in the U.S....