Categories Posted inin Business King: 93M daily Candy Crush Saga players, 500M installs, and $568M profit in 2013 (infographic) Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 18, 2014 2 min King reveals data about its games in preparation for its IPO.
Categories Posted inin Business How the makers of Tearaway tapped their creativity to make a world built from paper (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 18, 2014 6 min Rex Crowle and Christophe Villedieu drew from Instagram and other creative outlets to build an imaginative game.
Categories Posted inin Business BioShock developer Irrational Games ‘winding down’ — founder Ken Levine starting new studio Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 18, 2014 3 min Levine plans to take around 15 Irrational employees to his new endeavor within Take-Two Interactive.
Categories Posted inin Business Titanfall and e-sports: Developer Respawn explains its position on competitive gaming Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 18, 2014 2 min Developer Respawn isn't worrying about e-sports yet, but it may add features to support that community in the future.
Categories Posted inin Business Retrospective: 25 crazy years of Strider Hiryu Posted byby GamesBeat February 18, 2014 3 min Celebrate Strider Hiryu's 25th anniversary by looking back at all his stylish adventures -- from the original 1989 arcade game to the 2014 HD reboot.
Categories Posted inin Business Candy Crush Saga maker King files for an IPO Posted byby GamesBeat February 18, 2014 3 min King Digital Entertainment makes one of the hottest mobile games around: Candy Crush Saga. It also intends to offer one of the hottest new stocks on Wall Street.
Categories Posted inin Business InAppFuel’s minigames can boost a mobile game’s virtual goods purchases Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 18, 2014 2 min InAppFuel's customers see a 15% to 30% lift in in-app purchases and sizable retention increases.
Categories Posted inin Business Game developers favor the PC, smartphones, and PlayStation 4 over Xbox One Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 18, 2014 3 min Game developers prefer to make games for the PC, smartphones, and Sony’s PlayStation 4 console over Microsoft’s Xbox One, according to a survey of...
Categories Posted inin Business The Order: 1886’s steampunk setting will change how you play third-person shooters Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes February 18, 2014 4 min Developer Ready at Dawn reveals a little more info about its mysterious Victorian era shooter.
Categories Posted inin Business Nvidia debuts first Maxwell-based GeForce bargain-priced graphics chips for the PC Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 18, 2014 3 min Nvidia doubles performance-per-watt with its new Maxwell-based graphics chips.