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War Dragons joins crowd targeting hardcore gamers, not Candy Crush casuals

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Pocket Gems is known for gentle and casual games like Paradise Cove. But not anymore. The company is releasing its War Dragons, its first hardcore game, for mobile on iOS today.

The real-time strategy title represents a new visual high for mobile games, as it uses gorgeous 3D graphics to depict a dragon’s attack on a medieval fortress. Pocket Gems now has three product categories: casual games, episodic storytelling (with its Episode story app), and now hardcore games. It is expansion strategies like this that will keep the mobile game market, which is expected to hit $30 billion worldwide in 2015, growing.

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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.