Google Play gets ‘Indie Corner’ to promote games from smaller studios
SAN FRANCISCO — Remember when your teacher made you sit in the corner after you did something bad and you would spend all that...
Digital and physical gaming-data firms team up to give broader insight into the market
Game companies rarely want to share data about how their products perform, but two intelligence firms are partnering to help expose as much information...
New Yo-Kai Watch puzzle game hits March 24 for iOS and Android
Yo-Kai is too big for the Nintendo 3DS to handle on its own, so the next game in the franchise is headed to mobile....
How Google Play could fix the frustrating, impenetrable Chinese mobile gaming market
China has a massive mobile gaming market, but it’s not a viable option if you’re a Western developer. That could change if Google returns to...
Cooking Fever gets a dash of the world’s top soccer club to widen its appeal
If you’ve ever wanted to serve a stadium dog to Lionel Messi, you’re about to get the opportunity. Cooking Fever, a mobile kitchen-sim game...
Saudi Arabia’s mobile-gaming whales want what’s hot — even if it’s in another language
AMSTERDAM — The price of oil continues to drop, but Saudi Arabia still has cash to burn on mobile games. Only around 30 million...
Mobile devices will be more powerful than PlayStation 4, Xbox One in 2017, ARM forecasts (update)
AMSTERDAM — That supercomputer in your pocket will soon make Sony’s and Microsoft’s latest home gaming consoles look old and crusty. ARM, the technology design...
Nintendo is ‘looking’ into virtual reality
Nintendo has a new smartphone game and a new dedicated gaming system coming soon, but it’s also taking a peek at this whole virtual reality...
Google changes Android permissions to make game sign-ups easier
[Updated with additional news: 10:44 am Jan. 25] Google has changed the way the Android operating system handles permissions for game players so that...
App Annie 2015: Google Play saw 100% more downloads than the iOS App Store, but Apple generated 75% more revenue
In 2015, Google Play saw 100 percent more downloads than Apple’s App Store. Double the number of downloads is a huge achievement. In 2014,...