India’s Reliance Games is wasting no time expanding worldwide
The company is using movie licenses and small developers to expand quickly.
We can’t get enough Minions, and EA Mobile will give us more
EA will make a series of Minion games based on the cute characters from Despicable Me.
Rovio awarded $4.3M over fake Angry Birds toys
The Angry Birds studio just won a major case dealing with trademark and copyright infringement.
Mobile games are eating console games’ lunch in national TV ads
According to data from iSpot.tv, four of the top five biggest TV ad spenders in the video game category for the first quarter of the year are mobile game companies, collectively spending over $130 million in 2015.
At 8.5 million units sold, Tomb Raider’s 2013 reboot is the franchise’s top seller
Crystal Dynamics says that its recent reboot of the Tomb Raider series was the franchise’s best-selling game yet. It has sold more than 8.5 million copies worldwide since its early 2013 release when it initially launched on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.
Cities: Skylines gets SimCopter-like features thanks to modders
The Cities community is adding more and more cool stuff.
South Korea’s Gamevil takes mobile game Dragon Blaze to global audience
Gamevil is taking its hit Korean game Dragon Blaze to a global audience starting on May 11 by launching the title worldwide in new Western markets. Preregistration starts today for the role-playing game, which originally launched in February 2014 on the KakaoTalk messaging platform in South Korea and later in Japan.
World of Warcraft’s $20 game time-buying token comes out tomorrow
You can buy one with $20 of real money and then sell it on the auction house for a starting price of 30,000 gold. After that, the price will fluctuate based on the game’s economics.
Nearly 25 years later, companies like Sony still emulate Nintendo’s landmark settlement with the FTC
Sony's agreement with the FTC is now going into effect.
PacketZoom launches app download speed-up service, announces backers
The company cites a Zogby Research report saying that more than two-thirds of app downloads are abandoned because of slow download speeds.