Transcend Fund raises nearly $60M for second seed fund to invest in games and entertainment
The Transcend Fund is announcing the closing of its second seed fund of nearly $60 million to invest in games and digital entertainment. If...
Why Transcend Fund believes the opportunity for game investments is only getting bigger
Transcend Fund debuted in 2020 as a game-focused venture capital fund, and it has turned out to be one of the top performers among...
Data-driven versus intuition-driven game design
When it comes to game design, we’ll find out one of these days if artificial intelligence can beat a human being at creativity. But...
Gree International boss says game makers should consider bundling and unbundling strategies
Andrew Sheppard, CEO of Gree International, the overseas arm of Japan’s Gree, gave the opening talk at Casual Connect Europe in Berlin. He talked...
Gree International buys mobile role-playing game Dragon Soul
Gree said today that it has acquired the Dragon Soul mobile game as part of an expansion into mobile role-playing games. The announcement was made...
Andrew Sheppard appointed CEO of Gree International Entertainment
Andrew Sheppard has been appointed CEO of Gree International Entertainment, the U.S.-based division of Japan’s mobile gaming giant Gree. Based in San Francisco, Shepppard...
The branding game: It’s about savvy partnerships and communication, not ‘brand slaps’
It wasn’t long ago that mobile game companies could easily get a license to make branded games featuring movie or cartoon characters. But brand...
Gree’s Andrew Sheppard: ‘The notion of “customer” has changed’ in the international age
Gree chief operating officer Andrew Sheppard addresses some of the bigger scale challenges in making modern games for an entire world.
Gree’s Andrew Sheppard is placing his bets to take original mobile games higher
Sheppard told us that mobile game companies need to scale up their efforts to compete on a global level.
Confirmed: EA's Nick Earl takes over the studio president's job at mobile-game company Kabam (exclusive)
The move is the latest in a series of hires to beef up Kabam's management team.