Fuel Ignite helps mobile game developers manage live operations.
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Fuel Ignite enables game developers to run live operations without a ton of money

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Live events are essential to keeping a mobile game popular and extending its life. They keep players engaged and give them a reason to come back.

There’s a new engine called Fuel Ignite that makes it possible for small game developers to hold the same kind of live events that are normally the domain of big developers, who hold an increasingly large part of the $30 billion mobile game industry.

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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.