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Spain’s Digital Legends Entertainment evolves with realistic mobile shooter Afterpulse

Digital Legends Entertainment is one of the companies that has carved out a niche in mobile shooters. The Spanish game studio has made popular touchscreen shooting titles, such as The Respawnables and Afterpulse. That’s no small achievement in the $34 billion mobile-game market since shooters are hard to control on touchscreens, and they’re not as popular on mobile as they are on the PC and consoles.

A lot of studios have failed in the mobile shooter market. But Digital Legends Entertainment has been able to make the jump from successful branded shooters — it made the mobile version of Battlefield Bad Company 2 for Electronic Arts — to original titles.

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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.